Early Bluegrass Musician and Radio DJ Bill Reid Dies

He and his former wife had a radio show in Farmville and recorded for Columbia Records.

By Tad Dickens Roanoke.com

A bluegrass musician acknowledged as part of the genre's "first generation" died Sunday. Bill Reid, of Salem, was 88.
The Rockbridge County native started playing country and hillbilly guitar professionally in 1945 and would go on to earn a measure of regional fame in the husband-and-wife act Bill and Mary Reid and the Melody Mountaineers, and another act, Salt & Peanuts. The pair performed on radio and recorded with such musicians as International Bluegrass Music Association Hall of Famers Curly Lambert and Benny Martin. Read more...