The Bluegrass Alliance

... how, how often it, it, it, it showed up.

But yeah, I, we, I got a, uh, I left home and, um, I'd just got out of high school and this band called the Bluegrass Alliance, which was a pretty well-known bluegrass group in the day-

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it was a band that Sam Bush was in before he started New Grass Revival, and bunch of great musicians were in, in the Bluegrass Alliance, and it was kind of a training ground for young, young bluegrassers.

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And I lasted about a year, and then wound up in a band with Ricky Skaggs in Lexington for a short time, and got let go from that gig.

And what makes the movie Bluegrass Country Soul so interesting is that that's probably when bluegrass began to, it was the peak of bluegrass breaking out of the traditional Bill Monroe, Platt & Scruggs, Stanley Brothers mold.

This is where bands like the Bluegrass Alliance, which very shortly thereafter turned into the Newgrass Revival, where J.D. Crowe's band would play, where bands like the New Deal String Band, I'm sorry, yeah, would appear in the Earl Scruggs Review, played with, oh my goodness, electric guitar and drums.

So Carlton wanted to continue his festivals.

He grieved that Bill Monroe was no longer willing to play for him.