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IBMA Award for our own Dick Spottswood

Good news about a person who has devoted his life to the documenting, recording, producing and preserving of our American musical heritage.

The International Bluegrass Music Association presented its Distinguished Achievement Award to our own Dick Spottswood at the Association’s Special Awards Luncheon on October 1st, at the Renaissance Hotel in Nashville. Dick is an author, historian, musicologist, discographer and radio personality, who has devoted his life to documenting American music of the early twentieth century. His master work, Ethnic Music on Records: A Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893-1942 (University of Illinois Press) is a nine-volume listing of sound recordings by minority groups issued in the U.S. He also edited and annotated the 15-volume LP series Folk Music in America for the Library Congress, and he co-authored Country Music Sources: A Biblio-Discography of Commercially Recorded Traditional Music(University of North Carolina Press)..

Dick was a founder of Bluegrass Unlimited magazine in 1966, serving as editor until 1970. He introduced bluegrass programming to public radio in 1967, when he co-hosted a weekly show with Gary Henderson on WAMU at American University in Washington.. Since 1985, the Dick Spottswood Show (aka the Obsolete Music Hour) has been heard on WAMU and its web site affiliate www.BlueGrassCountry.org. Spottswood is a founding member of The Association for Recorded Sound Collections and a 2003 recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award. His book Banjo On the Mountain: Wade Mainer’s First Hundred Years is scheduled for publication next spring by the University Press of Mississippi.

Phil Rosenberg has become Webmaster for the AMS site. If you haven’t examined the site in a while, you will note many changes to content and visual appeal.

Keep looking for more improvements. Thanks Phil