Dayton's Role In Southwest Ohio's Bluegrass History
/ (L-R) Dave Edmundson, Rick Good and Suzanne Thomas of the Hotmud Family at a Dayton Public School performance, 1973. A new book and its companion CD celebrate the history of bluegrass music in Southwestern Ohio. Community Voices producer Dave Barber explores a corner of that history in East Dayton, where transplants from Kentucky and other southern states settled after finding factory jobs and bluegrass music provided a soundtrack. Industrial Strength Bluegrass and its companion CD celebrate the history of bluegrass music in Southwestern Ohio, including Dayton Frank Wakefield on mandolin ...