Bugg Stories vol. 8

we're not far from stage night at the grand ole opry on the ground in kenya like the attention for march ninth nineteen hundreds applied to college tennessee and douglas was a full time coal miner farmhand by the age of forty but it was at the age of seventeen when bob joined his dad tom split early with bob's mother to form a string band it was the beginning about musical career dead and homeland person is couldn't help forge and they played day says corporations all have or will it in danger so deng said all she learned to play guitar with the guitar player so he called almost generate income directly at the sun from a guitar player in this aquatic family and eventually became a pretty good rhythm player that he is a real desire was played the fiddle

that when libby learned to play that we deeply innovation we take her as chanel is it on twelve dollars leave his family an agrarian to know that way to me too nearly a dozen years after he started playing and square dances up and down the valley with his dad string band not douglas took off to chattanooga one day with the federal and when he got back his death was waiting at risk than an outdoor commerce clause in two years came out the vocal harmonies now that reminded us in nineteen twenty eight he said you don't play with a lot of debt says ongoing did you not they are sold to know that the employer enjoy the medicine show a childhood friend and fellow fiddler carly foxx who later became the grand ole opry veteran this is probably just a spot on the opry himself tired of life on the road he

complained square dances and radio shows but a factory worker in the day the nineteen forties he had is owned radio show and was looking to form a band he would call it the foggy mountain boys a couple of years before plan scruggs used the same name for their van doubles fell his first band mates at an amateur show in chattanooga hopes were armed luman brothers and there were employed no or only a country show amounts that his boys come home saying that omar was arrested hours of bordeaux omar show hollenbeck station talk to them and harder and they went to work the next day one of that was his best band ever it comes by more today than when charlie luken enlisted the band broke up charlie returned briefly after the war between

iraq headed off to nashville at the grand ole opry fame but douglas stayed put working at a textile mill in playing dance hall stage and radio shows parties picnics and contest in nineteen seventy five at age seventy five he won the smithsonian institute's national fiddle contest grants that's back when i could really play he says and one hundred years and two months he complained his bow arm doesn't wanna work anymore and it really has to warm up to play worth anything now at least that's what he tells all the stars porter wagner and ricky skaggs who stopped to chat at the grand ole opry air where his opera debut is finished it's time to walk off the stage by douglas shows the charisma the spellers is like to have you as a friday night up or will people like this is it and will serve with you

and you got you got one more you walk you through your mail came a man has been following pop douglas documenting the like a disciplinarian the soon to be released video will be aptly titled bob douglas for national public radio say

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