Bluegrass Breakdown: 1979, Part Six

We’re boarding the old bluegrass time machine and careening back to 1979 where, in November:

500 Iranian students local to the Ayatollah Khomeini seize the US embassy in Tehran; Chuck Berry is released from prison where he had served a four month sentence for income tax evasion; Pink Floyd releases “The Wall” and sells 6 million copies in two weeks; and folks like Seldom Scene, Herchell Sizemore, Ricky Skaggs, South Loomis Quickstep, Blaine Sprouse and Special Concensus were churning out a righteous brand of bluegrass.