Fred Bartenstein is an adjunct instructor in music at the University of Dayton. He is the editor of Bluegrass Bluesman, The Bluegrass Hall of Fame, and two anthologies of writings by folk arts impresario Joe Wilson. Curtis W. Ellison is a professor emeritus of history and American studies at Miami University. He is the author of Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven and editor of Donald Davidson's The Big Ballad Jamboree.

"If you believe that a purpose of volumes such as Industrial Strength Bluegrass is to stimulate thinking about a subject, then Industrial Strength Bluegrass serves its purpose well." --Journal of Folklore Research"If you believe that a purpose of volumes such as Industrial Strength Bluegrass is to stimulate thinking about a subject, then Industrial Strength Bluegrass serves its purpose well." --Journal of Folklore Research"With its extensive notes and sources, this book is a rich resource of information and powerful insights into the people and times that left an indelible mark on bluegrass." --Bluegrass Unlimited

• Foreword: Industrial Strength Bluegrass Neil V. RosenbergNotes from the EditorsAcknowledgmentsA Southwestern Ohio Bluegrass Timeline1 Appalachian Migration: Setting the Musical Stage in Southwestern Ohio Phillip J. Obermiller2 Bobby Osborne Remembers How It Was Bobby Osborne and Joe Mullins3 All the Way to the Fence: Bluegrass Broadcasting in the Miami Valley Daniel Mullins4 Taking the Music Home: Bluegrass Recording Studios, Record Labels, and Record Stores Mac McDivitt5 Sing Me Back Home: Early Bluegrass Venues in Southwestern Ohio Larry Nager6 Using My Bible for a Roadmap: Sacred Bluegrass Music in the Miami Valley Fred Bartenstein7 Green to Bluegrass: Reflections on an Unlikely Musical Career Lily Isaacs8 Buckeyes in the Briar Patch: Southwestern Ohio Bluegrass in the 1970s Jon Hartley Fox9 The Living Arts Center's East Dayton Roots Rick Good10 Bluegrass Music and Urban Appalachian Identity in Cincinnati Nathan McGee11 Distinctive Qualities of Southwestern Ohio Bluegrass Ben KrakauerAppendix A: Recommended Southwestern Ohio Bluegrass RecordingsAppendix B: For Further ReadingList of ContributorsIndex

Fred Bartenstein is an adjunct instructor in music at the University of Dayton. He is the editor of Bluegrass Bluesman, The Bluegrass Hall of Fame, and two anthologies of writings by folk arts impresario Joe Wilson. Curtis W. Ellison is a professor emeritus of history and American studies at Miami University. He is the author of Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven and editor of Donald Davidson's The Big Ballad Jamboree.

"If you believe that a purpose of volumes such as Industrial Strength Bluegrass is to stimulate thinking about a subject, then Industrial Strength Bluegrass serves its purpose well." --Journal of Folklore Research"If you believe that a purpose of volumes such as Industrial Strength Bluegrass is to stimulate thinking about a subject, then Industrial Strength Bluegrass serves its purpose well." --Journal of Folklore Research"With its extensive notes and sources, this book is a rich resource of information and powerful insights into the people and times that left an indelible mark on bluegrass." --Bluegrass Unlimited

• Foreword: Industrial Strength Bluegrass Neil V. RosenbergNotes from the EditorsAcknowledgmentsA Southwestern Ohio Bluegrass Timeline1 Appalachian Migration: Setting the Musical Stage in Southwestern Ohio Phillip J. Obermiller2 Bobby Osborne Remembers How It Was Bobby Osborne and Joe Mullins3 All the Way to the Fence: Bluegrass Broadcasting in the Miami Valley Daniel Mullins4 Taking the Music Home: Bluegrass Recording Studios, Record Labels, and Record Stores Mac McDivitt5 Sing Me Back Home: Early Bluegrass Venues in Southwestern Ohio Larry Nager6 Using My Bible for a Roadmap: Sacred Bluegrass Music in the Miami Valley Fred Bartenstein7 Green to Bluegrass: Reflections on an Unlikely Musical Career Lily Isaacs8 Buckeyes in the Briar Patch: Southwestern Ohio Bluegrass in the 1970s Jon Hartley Fox9 The Living Arts Center's East Dayton Roots Rick Good10 Bluegrass Music and Urban Appalachian Identity in Cincinnati Nathan McGee11 Distinctive Qualities of Southwestern Ohio Bluegrass Ben KrakauerAppendix A: Recommended Southwestern Ohio Bluegrass RecordingsAppendix B: For Further ReadingList of ContributorsIndex

Fred Bartenstein is an adjunct instructor in music at the University of Dayton. He is the editor of Bluegrass Bluesman, The Bluegrass Hall of Fame, and two anthologies of writings by folk arts impresario Joe Wilson. Curtis W. Ellison is a professor emeritus of history and American studies at Miami University. He is the author of Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven and editor of Donald Davidson's The Big Ballad Jamboree.

"If you believe that a purpose of volumes such as Industrial Strength Bluegrass is to stimulate thinking about a subject, then Industrial Strength Bluegrass serves its purpose well." --Journal of Folklore Research"If you believe that a purpose of volumes such as Industrial Strength Bluegrass is to stimulate thinking about a subject, then Industrial Strength Bluegrass serves its purpose well." --Journal of Folklore Research"With its extensive notes and sources, this book is a rich resource of information and powerful insights into the people and times that left an indelible mark on bluegrass." --Bluegrass Unlimited

• Foreword: Industrial Strength Bluegrass Neil V. RosenbergNotes from the EditorsAcknowledgmentsA Southwestern Ohio Bluegrass Timeline1 Appalachian Migration: Setting the Musical Stage in Southwestern Ohio Phillip J. Obermiller2 Bobby Osborne Remembers How It Was Bobby Osborne and Joe Mullins3 All the Way to the Fence: Bluegrass Broadcasting in the Miami Valley Daniel Mullins4 Taking the Music Home: Bluegrass Recording Studios, Record Labels, and Record Stores Mac McDivitt5 Sing Me Back Home: Early Bluegrass Venues in Southwestern Ohio Larry Nager6 Using My Bible for a Roadmap: Sacred Bluegrass Music in the Miami Valley Fred Bartenstein7 Green to Bluegrass: Reflections on an Unlikely Musical Career Lily Isaacs8 Buckeyes in the Briar Patch: Southwestern Ohio Bluegrass in the 1970s Jon Hartley Fox9 The Living Arts Center's East Dayton Roots Rick Good10 Bluegrass Music and Urban Appalachian Identity in Cincinnati Nathan McGee11 Distinctive Qualities of Southwestern Ohio Bluegrass Ben KrakauerAppendix A: Recommended Southwestern Ohio Bluegrass RecordingsAppendix B: For Further ReadingList of ContributorsIndex