Bluegrass Breakdown: 1979, Part Seven: S-Y

We’re finishing off what has turned into a seven-part series on the bluegrassical doin’s of 1979 when, among other things in December of that year:

Eleven people are trampled to death at a Who concert in Cincinnati; Star Trek — the Motion Picture, the first movie of the franchise starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy premieres; the game Trivial Pursuit is developed; the Soviets invade Afghanistan and the Tennessee Gentlemen, Tasty Licks, Joe Val and Fiddlin’ Ronnie Stewart unleash some powerful new bluegrass.