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Sonny Osborne
Sonny Osborne (October 29, 1937October 24, 2021) was an American bluegrass musician and founding member of the Osborne Brothers. Personal life Born on October 29, 1937, in Thousandsticks, Kentucky, Sonny Osborne's father was a farmer, teacher, and amateur banjo, guitar, and fiddle player. His older brother Bobby began playing bluegrass music after the family moved to Dayton, Ohio in 1941. Circa August 2021, when Osborne suffered a stroke, he was married to his wife, Judy. He died at around 1:30p.m. at home in Hendersonville, Tennessee on October 24, 2021. Career Osborne was a baritone singer who played multiple types of banjos over his 53-year musical career. History Osborne was in the sixth grade when he received his first banjo. A prodigy on the instrument, Osborne joined his brother in playing with the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers in the summer of 1951, but returned to Ohio that autumn after Bobby left for the United States Marine Corps. In summer 1952 (at 14-years-ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thousandsticks, Kentucky
Thousandsticks is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community in Leslie County, Kentucky, Leslie County, Kentucky, United States. Thousandsticks is located at the junction of the Hal Rogers Parkway and Kentucky Route 118 northwest of Hyden, Kentucky, Hyden. Thousandsticks had a post office with ZIP code 41766 which closed in 2005. History A post office called Thousandsticks had been in operation since 1924. The community was named after nearby Thousandsticks Branch. Notable people *Bobby Osborne, bluegrass musician *Sonny Osborne, bluegrass musician References 
Unincorporated communities in Leslie County, Kentucky
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Stroke
Stroke is a medical condition in which poor cerebral circulation, blood flow to a part of the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: brain ischemia, ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and intracranial hemorrhage, hemorrhagic, due to bleeding. Both cause parts of the brain to stop functioning properly. Signs and symptoms of stroke may include an hemiplegia, inability to move or feel on one side of the body, receptive aphasia, problems understanding or expressive aphasia, speaking, dizziness, or homonymous hemianopsia, loss of vision to one side. Signs and symptoms often appear soon after the stroke has occurred. If symptoms last less than 24 hours, the stroke is a transient ischemic attack (TIA), also called a mini-stroke. subarachnoid hemorrhage, Hemorrhagic stroke may also be associated with a thunderclap headache, severe headache. The symptoms of stroke can be permanent. Long-term complications may include pneumonia and Urinary incontinence, loss of b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Once More (Osborne Brothers Band Song)
Once More may refer to: Film * ''Once More'' (1988 film), a French drama film * ''Once More'' (1997 film), an Indian Tamil-language film starring Vijay and Sivaji Ganesan * ''Once More'' (2012 film), or ''The Magic of Belle Isle'', an American comedy-drama film Literature * ''Once More* with Footnotes'', a 2004 book by Terry Pratchett * Zarathustra's roundelay, or ''Once More'', an 1883 poem by Friedrich Nietzsche Music Albums * ''Once More'' (Billy Higgins album), 1980 * ''Once More'' (Colonial Cousins album), 2012 * ''Once More'' (Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton album) or the title song, 1970 * ''Once More'' (Spandau Ballet album), 2009 * ''Once More! Charlie Byrd's Bossa Nova'', by Charlie Byrd, 1963 Songs * "Once More" (The Orb song), 2001 * "Once More" (Spandau Ballet song), 2009 * "Once More", a song by Roy Acuff, 1958 * "Once More" (In CoF Minor), a remix by Mikhail Karikis of Bjork's "Army of Me" from '' Army of Me: Remixes and Covers'', 2005 * "Once More" a song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock And Roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, and rock 'n' roll) is a Genre (music), genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It Origins of rock and roll, originated from African American music such as jazz, rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, electric blues, gospel music, gospel, and jump blues, as well as from country music. While rock and roll's formative elements can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s,Peterson, Richard A. Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity' (1999), p. 9, . the genre did not acquire its name until 1954. According to the journalist Greg Kot, "rock and roll" refers to a style of popular music originating in the United States in the 1950s. By the mid-1960s, rock and roll had developed into "the more encompassing international style known as rock music, though the latter also continued to be known in many circles as rock and roll".Kot, Greg"Rock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Allen (bluegrass)
Harley Allen (February 12, 1930April 3, 1993), better known as Red Allen, was an American Bluegrass music, bluegrass band leader, singer and guitarist known for his powerful Tenor, tenor voice. Biography Allen, born in Pigeon Roost Hollow, near Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, grew up in the music-rich hills of eastern Kentucky, and following a stint in the Marines, settled in Dayton, Ohio, in 1949, where he began performing professionally. In 1952, Allen discovered a young teenage mandolin virtuoso named Frank Wakefield, who had moved to Dayton from Harriman, Tennessee. Soon Wakefield became a member of Allen's first band, the Blue Ridge Mountain Boys. The band also included the legendary Ohio five string banjo player, Noah Crase. They worked the local bars along Dayton's Fifth Street as well as the rough blue collar taverns which made up the Ohio and Michigan bluegrass circuit at the time. Allen first came to broader public attention in 1956 when he joined the Osborne Brothers to f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Martin
James Henry Martin (August 10, 1927 – May 14, 2005) was an American bluegrass singer and musician, known as the "King of Bluegrass". Early years Martin was born in Sneedville, Tennessee, United States, and was raised in the hard farming life of rural East Tennessee. He grew up near Sneedville, singing in church and with friends from surrounding farms. His mother and stepfather who used to sing gospel were his first influences. When he was in his teens he played guitar in a local string band and later appeared on radio with Tex Climer and the Blue Band Coffee Boys. Music career In the winter of 1949, Mac Wiseman had just left Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. Martin, who wanted to apply for the vacant post as guitarist, rode the bus into Nashville. He snuck in backstage at the Grand Ole Opry. While picking his guitar, he was overheard by the Blue Grass Boys' banjo player Rudy Lyle, who brought him forward and presented him to Monroe. Martin sang two songs with Monroe and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheeling Jamboree
The ''Wheeling Jamboree'' is the second-oldest country music radio broadcast in the United States after the ''Grand Ole Opry''. The Jamboree originated in 1933 in Wheeling, West Virginia on WWVA, the first radio station in West Virginia and a 50,000-watt clear-channel station AM station until about 2007.Tribe, p. 43. Numerous acts and stars performed on the ''Jamboree'', some of whom would later go on to mainstream commercial success. In 1946, the show (then performing at the Virginia Theatre demolished in 1962) was syndicated on the CBS radio network as ''CBS Radio Saturday Night Country Style'', becoming the first national radio broadcast from West Virginia. In 1997, WWVA dropped its country music format, although Saturday night broadcasts continued, from various theaters and managed by various entities, the final commercial one being Live Nation, initially a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, which had come to own WWVA. By the end of 2008, Clear Channel had rest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WROL
WROL (950 AM broadcasting, AM) is a radio station in Boston, Boston, Massachusetts. The station is owned by Salem Media Group. Most of WROL's programming is Religious broadcasting, religious including local ministers as well as national radio hosts such as Dr. Charles Stanley, Jay Sekulow and Eric Metaxas. Former WBZ-TV news anchor-turned-minister Liz Walker (journalist), Liz Walker also has a program on the station. WROL also airs several Irish music blocks on weekends, including the ''Irish Hit Parade'' on Saturdays and ''A Feast of Irish Music'' on Sundays. WROL operates with 5,000 watts by day but must reduce power to 90 watts at night to protect other stations on 950 kHz. WROL uses a non-directional transmitter located off Route 107 in the Rumney Marsh Reservation in Saugus, Massachusetts. WROL is one of two religious Radio format, formatted radio stations in the Boston media market owned by Salem Communications; WEZE is the other. History WROL's history dates b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville is a city in Knox County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. It is located on the Tennessee River and had a population of 190,740 at the 2020 United States census. It is the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Divisions of Tennessee, Grand Division and the state's List of municipalities in Tennessee, third-most populous city, after Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis.U.S. Census Bureau2010 Census Interactive Population Search. Retrieved: December 20, 2011. It is the principal city of the Knoxville metropolitan area, which had a population of 879,773 in 2020. First settled in 1786, Knoxville was the first capital of Tennessee. The city struggled with geographic isolation throughout the early 19th century; the History of rail transportation in the United States#Early period (1826–1860), arrival of the railroad in 1855 led to an economic boom. The city was bitterly Tennessee in the American Civil War#Tennessee secedes, divided over the issue of sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korean War
The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea; ROK) and their allies. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, while South Korea was supported by the United Nations Command (UNC) led by the United States. The conflict was one of the first major proxy wars of the Cold War. Fighting ended in 1953 with an armistice but no peace treaty, leading to the ongoing Korean conflict. After the end of World War II in 1945, Korea, which had been a Korea under Japanese rule, Japanese colony for 35 years, was Division of Korea, divided by the Soviet Union and the United States into two occupation zones at the 38th parallel north, 38th parallel, with plans for a future independent state. Due to political disagreements and influence from their backers, the zones formed their governments in 1948. North Korea was led by Kim Il S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandolin
A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled Strings (music), strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of eight strings. A variety of string types are used, with steel strings being the most common and usually the least expensive. The courses are typically tuned in an interval of perfect fifths, with the same tuning as a violin (G3, D4, A4, E5). Also, like the violin, it is the soprano member of a Family (musical instruments), family that includes the mandola, octave mandolin, mandocello and mandobass. There are many styles of mandolin, but the three most common types are the ''Neapolitan'' or ''round-backed'' mandolin, the ''archtop'' mandolin and the ''flat-backed'' mandolin. The round-backed version has a deep bottom, constructed of strips of wood, glued together into a bowl. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Ole Opry
The ''Grand Ole Opry'' is a regular live country music, country-music Radio broadcasting, radio broadcast originating from Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee, on WSM (AM), WSM, held between two and five nights per week, depending on the time of year. It was founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as the ''WSM Barn Dance'', taking its current name in 1927. Currently owned and operated by Opry Entertainment (a joint venture between NBCUniversal, Atairos and majority shareholder Ryman Hospitality Properties), it is the longest-running radio broadcast in U.S. history. Dedicated to honoring country music and its history, the Opry showcases a mix of famous singers and contemporary Record chart, chart-toppers performing country, Bluegrass music, bluegrass, Americana (music), Americana, folk music, folk, and gospel music, gospel music as well as comedy, comedic performances and Sketch comedy, skits. It attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world and mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
