MH resident Tim Edes now the president of California Bluegrass Assoc. By Marty Cheek Morgan Hill resident Tim Edes got hooked on bluegrass music because of a 1960s TV show featuring a famously named family who moved from a Southern state to Southern...
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MH resident Tim Edes now the president of California Bluegrass Assoc. By Marty Cheek Morgan Hill resident Tim Edes got hooked on bluegrass music because of a 1960s TV show featuring a famously named family who moved from a Southern state to Southern California after accidentally finding oil on their property. The tune that sparked his love for this genre of American music was “The Ballad of Jed Clampett,” the 63-year-old man recalled. “When I first heard bluegrass music, I was watching ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’ on TV years ago,” he said. “The banjo playing by Earl Scruggs just captivated me, so I bought a banjo and I took lessons for a year — I think I was 20 or 21 at the time. Then it just faded away and I put it down.” When Edes turned 45, something struck him to take the banjo up again. His wife saw that he was much more serious about it this time, and so she bought him a series of banjo lessons as a birthday present from a music teacher in Campbell. That started his journey to beco
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