/ (L-R) Dave Edmundson, Rick Good and Suzanne Thomas of the Hotmud Family at a Dayton Public School performance, 1973.
A new book and its companion CD celebrate the history of bluegrass music in Southwestern Ohio. Community Voices producer Dave Barber explores a corner of that history in East Dayton, where transplants from Kentucky and other southern states settled after finding factory jobs and bluegrass music provided a soundtrack. Industrial Strength Bluegrass and its companion CD celebrate the history of bluegrass music in Southwestern Ohio, including Dayton
Frank Wakefield on mandolin was the kind of high flying bluegrass music you could see and hear in the bars of Dayton in the 1950s and 60s, part of the vast history featured in the book