Interview with Ray and Melvin Goins, May 10, 2005
Project: Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Ray and Melvin Goins talk about musicians in their family and their early interest in music. They talk about their first instruments, their first radio show, and their first live performance. Ray talks about his first professional job playing banjo with Ezra Cline, and their experience staying at the Drake Hotel during their early days in the music business. The brothers talk about their current musical instruments and play several songs throughout the interview and talk about the history of each song. They tell stories about Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers, and many other musicians. Other topics include radio shows, pranks between musicians, recording sessions, auditions, the tradition of having a comedian in Bluegrass bands, and their wages in the early days of performing, among others.Interview Accession
Interviewee Name
Melvin Goins
Interview Date
Interview Keyword
Musical ability in children. Music--Instruction and study. Practical jokes. Radio programs. Radio stations. Music festivals. Bluegrass festivals Comedians. Comedy. Radio shows Ezra Cline (Artist) Wages Drake Hotel Food Cripple Creek (Song) Windy Mountain (Song) Ain't No Curb Service Anymore (Song) Dirty Dishes Blues (Song) My Brown Eyed Darling (Song) Pike County Breakdown (Song) Bill Monroe Bluegrass Hall of Fame Oh, Brother Where Art Thou? (Motion picture) Bill Monroe (Artist) Stanley Brothers (Artist) Ralph Stanley (Artist) Carter Stanley (Artist) Pranks "Fiddlin' Dewey" Shepherd and Red Onion Kentucky Slim (Artist) Lindy "Tennessee Mort" Clear (Artist) Chubby Anthony (Artist) "Big Wilbur" Joe Meadows (Artist) Get In Line Brother If You Want To Go Home (Song)Interview Rights
The Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History has been licensed by the International Bluegrass Music Museum as the exclusive archival repository for this collection. All rights to the interviews, including but not restricted to legal title, copyrights and literary property rights, belong to the International Bluegrass Music Museum.?Interviews may only be reproduced with permission from Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky.Interview Usage
Interviews may only be reproduced with permission from Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky.Restriction
Interviews may only be reproduced with permission from Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky.
The Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History has been licensed by the International Bluegrass Music Museum as the exclusive archival repository for this collection. All rights to the interviews, including but not restricted to legal title, copyrights and literary property rights, belong to the International Bluegrass Music Museum.?Interviews may only be reproduced with permission from Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky.
Add this interview to your cart in order to begin the process of requesting access to a copy of and/or permission to reproduce interview(s).
No citation available for this item.
You may come across language in UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center collections and online resources that you find harmful or offensive. SCRC collects materials from different cultures and time periods to preserve and make available the historical record. These materials document the time period when they were created and the view of their creator. As a result, some may demonstrate racist and offensive views that do not reflect the values of UK Libraries.
If you find description with problematic language that you think SCRC should review, please contact us at SCRC@uky.edu.
Persistent Link for this Record: https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7ftt4fqz35