Bluegrass Stamps

[StephenR]

Postage is about to go up again, perfect time to stock up on "forever" stamps and show your love for bluegrass music at the same time. My wife ordered us two sheets today.
https://store.usps.com/store/product/buy-stamps/bluegrass-stamps-S_484704


On a related note... great article about the opening of the "Jerry Garcia: A Bluegrass Journey" exhibit at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum in Owensboro, KY.
https://www.messenger-inquirer.com/news/telling-the-story-bluegrass-music-hall-of-fame-museum-unveils-garcia-exhibition/article_a8a38add-eee3-54fc-a1cd-1c752750f433.html

[edwardofhuncote]

Pleased to say, I played in that fine establishment when it first opened, waaaaaaaaay back in.... I can't remember which year our IBMA Showcase was... 1994? Nah, 1995. Yeah, we got to play in there for like a Grand Opening to-do during FanFest that year. Cool that they are going to honor fellow Kentuckian Jerry there. He'd be proud.


There's been a lot of hubbub about where IBMA is going to land now that the deal with Raleigh, N.C. is running out. There is a contingency who are lobbying for a return to Owensboro. Trouble is, Owensboro ain't got the infrastructure to handle the thing anymore. They outgrew it which is why they moved to Louisville, Nashville, and Raleigh to start with. Owensboro is my sentimental favorite though. That was the last time I had stage fright. I really didn't enjoy Louisville at all, too closed and clique-ish. And Nashville was... they tried to make it into something it wasn't meant to be. Raleigh was perfect.


Come to think of it, I need a book of stamps.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Thanks for the heads up, Stephen!  We're down to one stamp, so I just ordered a sheet of bluegrass & a sheet of Pete Seeger.

Peter

[David Houck]

... Cool that they are going to honor fellow Kentuckian Jerry there ...

I can be a bit slow on the uptake, especially when I haven't had my second cup of coffee yet, and my memory is .. unreliable at best.  But I can't think of a context in which Garcia would be referred to as a Kentuckian.

[edwardofhuncote]

Yeah... I think I was dreaming, Dave. Seriously. Very very long days lately. The question now becomes, if it wasn't Jerry from Kentucky, then who was I thinking about? Was it just the association with Monroe and bluegrass?

[shrug] Sorry y'all.


*I still need stamps...

[cozmik_cowboy]

Well, Jerry did play bluegrass with Peter Rowan, who was an actual, ginyuwine Bluegrass Boy; maybe that's it.

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

Yep, and a few other notable folks too, none of which are from the Bluegrass State. I really don't know what put the notion in my head, but I had it all along that Jerry Garcia and Bill Monroe had Kentucky and innovative music in common. I asked my buddy John over at Bluegrass Today about it, and what might've made me think so, and he laughed and told me welcome to mid-50's C-R-S. I don't think it's quite that simple though... something planted that thought -however wrong- and there it laid, dormant. Maybe it'll come back to me.

Here was John's plug for the Jerry Garcia exhibit at the IBMA museum. https://bluegrasstoday.com/bluegrass-hall-of-fame-launching-jerry-garcia-exhibit-and-celebration-weekend-in-march/

[edwardofhuncote]

After thinking about it for a couple days and nights, it seems the only person from Kentucky I can come up with closely associated enough with with Jerry or the Grateful Dead... is Bear. That's a really weird Freudian slip, even for me.