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ELKVILLE STRING BAND ON MOUNTAIN ROADS

Posted on April 29, 2008December 15, 2016 by Richard Thompson

Mountain Roads Recordings of Bristol, TN, has announced the signing of the
Elkville String Band from North Wilkesboro, NC.

The band consists of Herb Key, Jeff Michael, Drake Walsh and Bill Williams, and
was formed in 2001 to perform the music for the play Tom Dooley, A Wilkes County
Legend, which is an annual event, held in July, and put on by the Wilkes
Playmakers. The group, which claims to have over a hundred years experience
between them, has a unique old-time sound.

Elkville String Band focuses on keeping the old songs and ballads of the
mountains of North Carolina and Virginia alive. Some of their crowd favorites
date back to the early 1800s.

As well as playing guitar and doing most of the singing for Elkville String
Band, Herb Key picks and works with Wayne Henderson of Rugby, VA. Key is a fine
luthier in his own right and an excellent instrument repair specialist. Jeff
Michael is a master of all stringed instruments and a fine old time singer who
will remind you of Lester Flatt and Bill Monroe. He has played on the Grand Ole
Opry with Charlie Louvin, Bill Monroe and is a full time member of Big Country
Bluegrass. Drake Walsh plays fiddle and mandolin and is the son of Dock Walsh,
who picked with the original Carolina Tar Heels and Gid Tanner. Bill Williams,
acoustic bass and harmony vocals, has picked with several groups and was a
founding member of Steve Kilby’s Sunday Night Band, later known as Kingsberry
Run.

Bill Williams has this to say about how the signing came about ……..

> “We met Karl and Gail Cooler through our association with Jeff Michael, who is
> also a member of Big Country Bluegrass. Jeff took some of our material to Karl
> so he could listen to it and Karl liked what he heard. He asked us if we would
> be interested in recording for Mountain Roads Recording and that is how it all
> came about. We are very pleased to be associated with the Coolers and are very
> glad to have the opportunity to record some of the music from the North
> Carolina and Virginia area.
> 
> Some of this music dates back to the 1800’s and we have always been interested
> in preserving a lot of this music. Now, Karl and Gail Cooler have given us the
> means to do this. We are also very exited about recording for the same label
> as Big Country Bluegrass. We have known all the members of this fantastic
> Bluegrass band for many years. Big Country Bluegrass was the first band signed
> by the Coolers and now we are the second. We are very proud to be associated
> with Mountain Roads Recordings and are looking forward to our first release
> late this year.”

Mountain Roads Recordings was formed by Karl and Gail Cooler to focus on unique
sounds that originate in the mountains and the Elkville String Band fits
perfectly with this vision. The members assembled are some of the finest
musicians performing old time music and we are excited to be associated with
this group.

The group’s first release with Mountain Roads Recordings is scheduled for late
2008.

Audio clips can be found at the band’s MySpace page.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR



RICHARD THOMPSON

Richard F. Thompson is a long-standing free-lance writer specialising in
bluegrass music topics. A two-time Editor of British Bluegrass News, he has been
seriously interested in bluegrass music since about 1970. As well as
contributing to that magazine, he has, in the past 30 plus years, had articles
published by Country Music World, International Country Music News, Country
Music People, Bluegrass Unlimited, MoonShiner (the Japanese bluegrass music
journal) and Bluegrass Europe. He wrote the annotated series I'm On My Way Back
To Old Kentucky, a daily memorial to Bill Monroe that culminated with an
acknowledgement of what would have been his 100th birthday, on September 13,
2011.


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