Japan's love affair with the genre began with brothers Yasushi and Hisashi Ozaki, who formed the country's first bluegrass duo in 1957. Today,... Meet The Musicians Behind Japan's Vibrant Bluegrass ...
Mixing traditional Japanese music and American bluegrass sounds as appetizing as a plate of sushi and grits. Once you get a taste of it, though, you'll want seconds. Takeharu Kunimoto plays the ...
Saburo "Sab" Watanabe Inoue, Chien-Hua Lee, Hsueh-Cheng "Ryo" Liao, Akira Otsuka, Tsuyoshi "Josh" Otsuka and Toshio Watanabe make up Bluegrass 45, a pioneering Japanese bluegrass band that marks its ...
Japanese bluegrass band Bluegrass 45 finds cultural unity through their music in the South. Bluegrass 45, one of Japan’s first bluegrass bands, brings its unique sound to the American South. Through ...
Akira Otsuka sat on the front row. Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs played for just over an hour on that March day in 1968 in Osaka, Japan. Otsuka lapped up every second. “Dream come true,” said Otsuka, ...
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