{"id":1457,"date":"2022-07-15T15:38:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2022-07-15T15:38:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T15:38:42","slug":"new-dismembered-tennesseans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/new-dismembered-tennesseans\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW DISMEMBERED TENNESSEANS\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DismemberedTennesseans\">Facebook<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dismemberedtennesseans.com\/\">Website<\/a><strong><br \/><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N_Dejvn8TbQ\">Listen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Members:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ed \u201cDoc\u201d Cullis \u2013 Banjo<br \/>Laura Walker \u2013 Bass, Fiddle and Vocals<br \/>Bobby Martin \u2013 Guitar and Vocals<br \/>Don Cassell \u2013 Mandolin and Vocals<br \/>Brian Blaylock \u2013 Mandolin, Dobro, Guitar, Banjo and Vocals<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volumes could be written about the history of the Dismembered Tennesseans, the bluegrass band formed by famed east Tennessee fiddler and philanthropist Fletcher Bright with his school friends at Chattanooga\u2019s McCallie High School in 1947. \u201c\u2019Singing from the heart through the nose\u2019 is an apt description of our group,\u201d says Ed \u201cDoc\u201d Cullis, an original member who is still picking with the group today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most influential bluegrass bands in the region, the Dismembered Tennesseans played, sang, and laughed their way across the country for more than 70 years and through numerous personnel changes until Fletcher\u2019s passing on Christmas Day, 2017. To some, it seemed that the band had finally run its course, but fate had other plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In spring 2019, original member Doc Cullis (banjo) and long-time band alumni Laura Walker (bass and vocals) and Don Cassel (mandolin and vocals) formed the New Dismembered Tennesseans, welcoming three new members: Bobby Burns (guitar and vocals), Fletcher\u2019s granddaughter, Eleanor Bright (clawhammer banjo, guitar and vocals) and Tom Morley (fiddle and vocals).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Together, the new lineup has infused the band with new energy and a new sense of purpose, with a repertoire that both honors Fletcher and the original band and sends the music headlong into the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FacebookWebsiteListen Members: Ed \u201cDoc\u201d Cullis \u2013 BanjoLaura Walker \u2013 Bass, Fiddle and VocalsBobby Martin \u2013 Guitar and VocalsDon Cassell \u2013 Mandolin and VocalsBrian Blaylock \u2013 Mandolin, Dobro, Guitar, Banjo and Vocals Volumes could be written about the history of the Dismembered Tennesseans, the bluegrass band formed by famed east Tennessee fiddler and philanthropist Fletcher Bright [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":1403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-blog","9":"has-featured-image"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}