Hoyt Combs
Hoyt Combs came from a family of musicians who were part of the bluegrass and...
Type: In Memoriam
Clyde “Pop” Ferguson
Clyde "Pop" Ferguson was one of the last practitioners of traditional blues in the North...
Howard Colbert
Howard Colbert grew up in the town of Lenoir, where he heard the sounds of...
Lloyd Church
Lloyd Church grew up in a family known for bluegrass music, but he played his...
Jim Brooks
Jim Brooks played bluegrass music for more than sixty years, and he continued to perform...
Nave Blevins
Nave Blevins was born in the Cranberry Creek/Laurel Springs area of Alleghany County, where he...
Virginia Boone
Virginia Boone braided rugs in Western North Carolina for more than sixty years, continuing to...
Steve Sutton
When Steve Sutton was a small child living in Haywood County, his family would sometimes...
Leonard Hollifield
Buncombe County native Leonard Hollifield's career as a guitarist began around the age of ten,...
Frank Buchanan
Frank Buchanan was born in the mountains near Spruce Pine in Mitchell County. At the...
Eugene Reed
Growing up in the Smoky Mountains in the 1930s and '40s, autoharp player Gene Reed...
