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Post by Chesapeake on Sept 2, 2014 23:06:00 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2014 0:22:12 GMT -5
Eight beds and eight baths?!? You could fit TWO bluegrass bands in that house. How they pay the mortgage is another matter.
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Post by Dub on Sept 3, 2014 4:34:27 GMT -5
Before Earl and Louise lived there it was Tammy Wynette's house.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2014 6:08:39 GMT -5
Before Earl and Louise lived there it was Tammy Wynette's house. Did she have to sell it because of a D-I-V-O-R-C-E?
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Post by millring on Sept 3, 2014 6:13:12 GMT -5
Before Earl and Louise lived there it was Tammy Wynette's house. Did she have to sell it because of a D-I-V-O-R-C-E?
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Post by TKennedy on Sept 3, 2014 8:21:13 GMT -5
Eight beds and eight baths?!? You could fit TWO bluegrass bands in that house. How they pay the mortgage is another matter. The appeal to Earl is obvious. Eight notes per measure were very good to him.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2014 8:45:34 GMT -5
Too big. But a great kitchen.
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Post by Doug on Sept 3, 2014 9:08:44 GMT -5
I checked my bank account and made and offer of $386.54. But they haven't gotten back to me yet.
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Post by Dub on Sept 3, 2014 9:11:21 GMT -5
I don't think bluegrass music was all that good to anyone, even Earl. Earl's financial fortunes began to improve after he and Lester Flatt split and he founded The Earl Scruggs Review. Of course The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band had a lot to do with his commercial success too. That and Louise's business savvy. He had only lived in Tammy's former house since 1999.
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Post by Chesapeake on Sept 3, 2014 9:57:11 GMT -5
I don't think bluegrass music was all that good to anyone, even Earl. Earl's financial fortunes began to improve after he and Lester Flatt split and he founded The Earl Scruggs Review. Of course The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band had a lot to do with his commercial success too. That and Louise's business savvy. He had only lived in Tammy's former house since 1999. Louise's involvement was not the least of these factors. It was she (and their teenaged sons) who instigated the Flatt-Scruggs drift into folk music (which Flatt didn't like but Louise did - she was an early Bob Dylan fan), and her beginning to book them into college campuses, that boosted them out of the limited world of bluegrass into what was becoming a mainstream youth market. After the breakup, Scruggs added electricity and drums to his sound in the Revue, which propelled him even further. But many date the real rise of Earl Scruggs into international stardom to 1956, when Louise took full control of the band's bookings and business affairs.
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Post by Chesapeake on Sept 3, 2014 10:02:41 GMT -5
I don't think bluegrass music was all that good to anyone, even Earl. .... Maybe not, but it sure brings in the girls.
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Post by Dub on Sept 3, 2014 10:52:20 GMT -5
I remember that Josh Graves, the pioneering Dobroist with Flatt & Scruugs, could never afford a house until he finally left Lester to join Earl in The Review. And I think Ralph Stanley still lived in what had been his mother' house until “Oh Brother” brought him some more serious income. J.D. Crowe famously kept his day job (as a machinist?) throughout his notable career in music as did Del McCoury. Both Jimmy Martin and Jim & Jesse had some commercial success with hit singles high on the country charts. So did The Osborne Brothers, but I don't think any of them became wealthy enough to buy a house like Earl's.
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Post by millring on Sept 3, 2014 10:54:04 GMT -5
The irony is that if you can afford a house, it's probably only because you're on the road too much to enjoy it anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2014 20:02:36 GMT -5
I don't think bluegrass music was all that good to anyone, even Earl. .... Maybe not, but it sure brings in the girls. Heh heh.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Sept 3, 2014 20:48:57 GMT -5
1. I could not afford the monthly taxes of $1830, not even considering the P&I of $12,486.
2. That house is very white.
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Post by Doug on Sept 3, 2014 21:09:52 GMT -5
1. I could not afford the monthly taxes of $1830, not even considering the P&I of $12,486. 2. That house is very white. If one of us moved in it would bring down the status of the neighborhood such that you'd only have to pay $2.35 a year in taxes
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Post by Village Idiot on Sept 3, 2014 21:41:26 GMT -5
That's what our house will look like when they get done with the siding.
Seriously, though, I'd kill for a big, giant, shady patio the size of several living rooms.
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Post by RickW on Sept 3, 2014 22:20:06 GMT -5
That's what our house will look like when they get done with the siding. Seriously, though, I'd kill for a big, giant, shady patio the size of several living rooms. I dunno. Looks like a lot of cleaning. But I guess if you can afford the house, you can afford the help.
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