1978 Southwest Virginia Bluegrass Band The Lost & Found - 5-Page Vintage Article

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1978 Southwest Virginia Bluegrass Band The Lost & Found - 5-Page Vintage Article
Original, vintage magazine article
Page Size: Approx. 8" x 11" (21 cm x 28 cm) each page
Condition: Good
Together only four years, The Lost and
Found of southwest Virginia is rapidly
cutting a favorable swath across the
bluegrass entertainment field with a
Duke’s mixture of traditional and modern
bluegrass sounds, all arranged in a
distinct, creative style.
In addition to bringing musical
excitement to traditional bluegrass tunes,
group members have provided their own
originals and borrowed from other fields
to make their first two albums on Outlet
Records appeal to a variety of fans in a
down-home but professional manner.
Their first single was released in
November. It features “Old Slate
Mountain Home,” written by the group’s
Gene Parker. This is a novelty-type song
by Linda Stanley
with ear-ringing good sounds, affording a
fine example of The Lost and Found’s
close-knit harmony. The flip side offers
“Last Lonely Eagle” with a slight touch of
country. Both sides have earned the group
a good bit of air play. A third album is
tentatively scheduled for distribution in
early spring this year.
Playing some 20 bluegrass festivals in
the ’77 season, manager Alan Mills is
thankful for the success and acceptance
The Lost and Found had enjoyed in such a
short time. Already scheduled for this
coming season are several repeat show
dates.
Mills of Ridgeway, Virginia, not only
manages the group but plays stand-up
bass, reaches one of the highest and
clearest tenors in the business and is
perhaps one of the best MCs on the
festival circuit. He has paid his dues in the
music business, starting public perfor-
mances in 1959 in the country field.
The Lost and Found’s name actually
was Mills’ idea, conceived on the way
home from a jam session of four friends.
They had gotten together through a
mutual interest in bluegrass, after trying
their hands in other bands.
This night, after deciding they sounded
good enough to begin playing somewhere
besides in each others’ basements, they
wanted other people to hear what they
could do...
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