For Release: April 15, 2002
He has performed at the Grand Ole Opry, is the only bluegrass performer ever to appear on the cover of Smithsonian magazine, and is known among fans of bluegrass as one of the genre's most influential and established musicians. But Melvin Goins seems almost unaware of such accomplishments as he keeps his performance rolling with purebred bluegrass tunes interspersed with his unique sense of homespun humor. Goins and his band, Windy Mountain, return to Jubilee to deliver their time-tested sound.Hailing from Bluefield, W.Va., Goins has been performing bluegrass music for more than 50 years. After playing with the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers and then with Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, Goins and his brother Ray eventually formed their own Goins Brothers band. Melvin reestablished the band as Melvin Goins and Windy Mountain in 1999 after Ray's retirement in 1997.
Goins is also the popular host of "The Bluegrass Hour," a Saturday morning broadcast on WSIP country radio. Goins has been dishing out a weekly hour of his winning combination of humor, storytelling and bluegrass music for the past 14 years.
This performance was taped at the 2001 IIIrd. Tyme Out's Poppy Mountain Bluegrass Festival in Morehead, Ky.
Jubilee is a KET production, produced by H. Russell Farmer. Nancy Carpenter is executive producer. The program is closed-captioned for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Viewers can find out more about programming on KET's six digital channels by visiting the KET Web site at www.ket.org.
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Melvin Goins
Melvin Goins and Windy Mountain
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