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On location at WAMU Radio Station in Washington DC
January 2012 airing of new Rural Rhythm album release "The Touch of Time"
Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie with WAMU DJ Bob Webster
L=R Bob Webster, Chris Stifel, Teri Chism, Bill Emerson, Wayne Lanham

"The Touch of Time"
Just released on Rural Rhythm Records

featuring Teri Chism, Wayne Lanham, Chris Stifel and special guest Bill Evans.

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During the First annual Oak Leaf Bluegrass and Mountain Music Festival at Luray Caverns on July 4th 2011, Virginia Governor Robert F McDonnell presented a CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION to Bill Emerson for his many contributions to the development, popularity and proliferation of Bluegrass Music in the Commonwealth of Virginia and around the world.

Beginning in 1957, Bill Emerson established himself as a banjo virtuoso and history maker alike! A founding member of the famed bluegrass ensemble "The Country Gentlemen", billed as a featured artist while with "Jimmy Martin" during the height of that bluegrass legend's career, the man who introduced the classic "Fox on the Run" to bluegrass, founder and shaper of "Country Current" the world renowned bluegrass ensemble of the United States Navy Band. Called "a banjo legend" by the "Washington Post", twice awarded "Banjo player of the Year" by the Muleskinner News Bluegrass Magazine, credited with giving start to the careers of both dobro legends Mike Auldridge and Jerry Douglas, credited by Ricky Skaggs as being responsible for his post Ralph Stanley musical career, Bill Emerson was also inducted into the "Virginia Folk Music Association" Hall of Fame in 1984 and June 10th was proclaimed "Bill Emerson day in Virginia" by Governor Charles S. Robb.