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Article: Junior Sisk and Ramblers Choice: Blue Side of the Blue Ridge.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
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- March 1, 2009
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JUNIOR SISK AND RAMBLERS CHOICE
Blue Side of the Blue Ridge
Rebel 1825
Thomas Wolfe, who famously wrote "you can't go home again," was a native of Asheville, North Carolina, in the heart of the Blue Ridge, and although he died around the time that Bill and Charlie Monroe were starting to cut the recordings that would eventually lead to what we know today as bluegrass music, Wolfe probably would have understood and appreciated where latter-day practitioners of the genre like Junior Sisk were coining from. And for his part, Blue Side of the Blue Ridge represents something of a homecoming for Sisk and his longtime associate Tim Massey. After ...