Birthdays are supposed to be fun!
So here's a little video someone had a lot of fun with.
Banjo background music is Bill Emerson playing "Home of the Red Fox"
Beginning in 1957, Bill Emerson established himself as a banjo virtuoso and history maker alike! A founding member of the famed bluegrass ensemble "The Country Gentlemen", billed as a featured artist while with "Jimmy Martin" during the height of that bluegrass legend's career, the man who introduced the classic "Fox on the Run" to bluegrass, founder and shaper of "Country Current" the world renowned bluegrass ensemble of the United States Navy Band.  |
| Bill with the Country Gentlemen, Webster, Mass. 1971 from: Bill Emerson Photo Album |
Called "a banjo legend" by the "Washington Post", twice awarded "Banjo player of the Year" by the Muleskinner News Bluegrass Magazine, credited with giving start to the careers of both dobro legends Mike Auldridge and Jerry Douglas, credited by Ricky Skaggs as being responsible for his post Ralph Stanley musical career, Bill Emerson was also inducted into the "Virginia Folk Music
Association" Hall of Fame in 1984 and June 10th was proclaimed "Bill Emerson day in Virginia" by Governor Charles S. Robb.
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