Neil Rosenberg As a Blue Grass Boy: While a student at the University of
Indiana, Neil Rosenberg
played in the house band at Bean Blossom for several years starting
in 1961; in 1963 he also managed the park. During this time, he filled
in on several occasions as a Blue Grass Boy.
Before and After: Neil Rosenberg continues to play bluegrass today; since 1973
he has played with the band Crooked Stovepipe. He is better known in the
bluegrass world, however, as the author of the definitive book
Bluegrass: A History. His writings also include the 1975
Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys: An Illustrated Discography
(now out of print) and Bluegrass Odyssey, a collaboration
with
photographer Carl Fleischhauer. He created the "30 Years Ago This
Month" column for Bluegrass Unlimited and wrote it for 13 years before
turning it over to Tom Ewing in 1994.
"In Bloomington, where early Berkeley banjo mentor
and later renowned bluegrass historian Neil Rosenberg lived while
attending graduate school in Folklore at Indiana University, Jerry and I played often at Neil's house..."(1)
1.)^Rothman, Sandy, 2012-03-18.
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