On this week’s Pickin we’ll have sets of three from the founding artists of the genre. Naturally, we’ll start with the father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe. Also, music from Flatt and Scruggs, Reno and Smiley, The Country Gentlemen, The Seldom Scene, and plenty of others, including Mac Wiseman, who was a founding member of the Country Music Association. Wiseman was a native Virginian who, fearing the direction of Country Music with the explosion of rock and roll in the 1950s, dedicated himself to the preservation of traditional Americana music. He was the last surviving founding member of the Association. Hear more on Pickin- Sunday night at 7 on 89.5
Pickin on WHRV Celebrates the Founding Fathers of the Gnere
