Biography: Vulcan's Hammer, Valerie Smith, Valerio Longoria, Jr., Van Holyoak, Vance Gilbert, Vance Terry, Värttinä, Vassar Clements, Vern Gosdin, Vern Williams,

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Vulcan's Hammer Biography, Photos, Pictures

Little is known about the British traditional folk quartet Vulcan’s Hammer, other than that they were based in Kent and put out one album, True Hearts and Sound Bottoms, as a privately pressed release limited to 250 copies

Valerie Smith Biography, Photos, Pictures

For the first few decades of its existence, relatively few female vocalists were able to achieve high profile and visibility in the world of bluegrass music, a field viewed by many as being male-dominated over the years in much the same way as the wider country music business as a whole

Valerio Longoria, Jr. Biography, Photos, Pictures

This Tejano musician is the son of the legendary Valerio Longoria Sr, who was responsible for an array of innovations in the Tex-Mex conjunto musical traditions While Longoria the father worked on his musical skills while laboring in orange groves and cotton fields, his children have enjoyed basking in the glow of the kind of fame being a musical pioneer can bring if an artist plays his cards right, or rather chords

Van Holyoak was a working cowman a singer and collector of cowboy songs He started learning his first songs from his father, and as he pursued his hobby, added more songs as well as stories and poetry acquired from his fellow cowboys

Vance Gilbert Biography, Photos, Pictures

One of many self-styled contemporary folk singers to have come on the scene in the 1980s, Vance Gilbert was inspired to begin writing his own material after hearing Shawn Colvin perform at a Boston theater

Vance Terry earned most of his reputation as Billy Jack Wills’ steel guitarist in the 1950s A disciple of Herb Remington, Noel Boggs, and Speedy West, the teenaged Terry was hired after Wills’ original steel guitarist, Tommy Varner, was drafted in 1951

One of the most internationally successful acts to emerge from the contemporary Finland music scene, Värttinä revitalized the nation’s folk traditions with an aggressive and ultra-modern style that eschewed not only the costumes of their ancestors but also the long-accepted cultural notion that women should sing unaccompanied

Vassar Clements Biography, Photos, Pictures

Combining jazz with country, Vassar Clements became one of the most distinctive, inventive, and popular fiddlers in bluegrass music Clements first came to prominence as a member of Bill Monroe’s band in the early ’50s, but he never limited himself to traditional bluegrass

As country music swung back toward traditional styles in the 1980s, an inheritor of the soulful honky tonk style of Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard rose to the top of the business and notched hit after barroom hit

Vern Williams Biography, Photos, Pictures

Vern Williams is one of the great unheralded masters of bluegrass music, a mandolin virtuoso who was a star in California throughout the 1960s,’70s, and ’80s, and an influence on an entire generation of players and bands out there, but who is little known beyond the confines of the Golden State

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