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October 17, 2016 (October 17, 2016)

Release Party: Bill Clifton

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The most atypical of bluegrass artists, Bill Clifton has enjoyed a long career as a recording artist, performer, and champion of old-time music. Bill C. Malone pens the story of […]

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October 10, 2016 (October 11, 2016)

Sa-lute! to Penny Parsons

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Last week, the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) named UIP author Penny Parsons Bluegrass Print/Media Person of the Year. A tireless music journalist, Parsons also published Foggy Mountain Troubadour: The […]

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October 5, 2016 (October 5, 2016)

WPAQ interview with Penny Parsons on bluegrass icon Curly Seckler

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Penny Parsons’ acclaimed biography of bluegrass legend Curly Seckler keeps earning plaudits and getting attention. Recently, Penny sat down at WPAQ in Mt. Airy, North Carolina to discuss Mr. Seckler […]

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June 24, 2016 (June 24, 2016)

RIP Ralph Stanley

bluegrass music

The pride of Big Spraddle Creek, Virginia, or somewhere close to it, Ralph Stanley was performing at age eleven and still going strong at age 89. “His voice sounds like […]

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September 24, 2015 (September 22, 2015)

Throwbacklist Thursday

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The University of Illinois Press thinks country and western music hung the moon. Our list of C&W books reads like a who’s who of that musical form’s rhinestone-studded history. You want singers? […]

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October 2, 2014 (September 29, 2014)

Congratulations to Neil Rosenberg

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Tonight, the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) will induct folklorist, musician, bluegrass historian, and University of Illinois Press author Neil V. Rosenberg into the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame at […]

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September 21, 2013 (August 15, 2013)

Happy birthday to Ginger Boatwright

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Bluegrass singer Ginger Boatwright was born on September 21st in 1944. She has been involved in various bands throughout the years including the Grammy nominated Red White and Blue(grass), the […]

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August 30, 2013 (August 28, 2013)

Read an excerpt from Pretty Good for a Girl

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PopMatters has posted an excerpt from Murphy Hicks Henry’s book about influential and often overlooked women in bluegrass, Pretty Good for a Girl. The first book devoted entirely to women in bluegrass, […]

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August 18, 2013 (August 15, 2013)

Happy birthday to Ola Belle Reed

bluegrass folklore music women's history

Although there is some slight dispute over her exact birthday, records say Ola Belle Campbell Reed, was born on August 18, 1916, in Lansing, North Carolina. She was the fourth of […]

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August 14, 2013 (August 13, 2013)

Happy birthday to bluegrass pioneer Rose Maddox

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Rose Maddox, the lead singer of America’s “most colorful hillbilly band” the Maddox Brothers and Rose, was born on August 15, 1925. Rose went from very modest beginnings to fronting […]

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May 11, 2013 (May 9, 2013)

Q&A with Murphy Hicks Henry, author of Pretty Good for a Girl

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Murphy Hicks Henry is a professional banjo player and writer who founded the Women in Bluegrass newsletter and has written regularly for Bluegrass Unlimited and Banjo Newsletter. She answered our questions […]

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March 1, 2013 (March 6, 2013)

Women’s History Month $2.99 e-book sale

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For the month of March we have lowered the e-book list price of six Women’s History titles in the University of Illinois Press catalog to $2.99. The Moral Property of Women: […]

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