Akira Otsuka sat on the front row. Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs played for just over an hour on that March day in 1968 in Osaka, Japan. Otsuka lapped up every second. “Dream come true,” said Otsuka, ...

Bluegrass 45 reunites with the tour van from their first US Tour. Members of Bluegrass 45 are reunited with the iconic tour van from their US tour in the 1970’s, now hiding a scrap yard in West ...

Japanese bluegrass band Bluegrass 45 finds cultural unity through their music in the South. Bluegrass 45, one of Japan’s first bluegrass bands, brings its unique sound to the American South. Through ...

Does anyone else remember Bluegrass 45, the Japanese band that released two albums on Roanoke's Rebel Records label in the 1970s? That occurred to me when to Rocky Mount Town Manager Keith Holland ...