1999, Merlefest, Wilkesboro, N.C. Award winning guitar player and singer Dan Delancy just purchased this NGC curly Tasmanian blackwood guitar.

Brother Oswald and Grandpa Jones having a big time backstage at one of the TNN tapings at Opryland during the heyday of Nashville television, ~1990's.

Maura O'Connell at the Station Inn, 1996

Santa Ernie at the Station Inn, Christmas, 2001.

Marty Lanham, former Kentucky Colonials banjoist Billy Ray Lathum and bassist Markie Sanders relax at the Station Inn on Larry Cordle, Lonesome Standard Time night, March 2002.

Doc Watson and the Nashville Bluegrass Band during their yearly reunion jam, Merlefest, 1998.

David Grier, Merlefest 1999

Marty is second from right in this 50's something picture taken in the New Almaden Valley in California where he grew up.

Christmas party at the Station Inn, 2001

Merlefest 1999, Doc Watson, Mac Wiseman and Del McCoury Band.

John and Marie Hartford at a "Save the Music"-type event on Music Row circa late 1980's.

A film documentary is being made on the Station Inn. During filming, I got this picture of J.T. Grey, longtime proprietor with original owners Marty Lanham and Jim Bornstein, studying my old Station Inn photos. Marty and Jim were among the people who founded the Station Inn in 1974.

Ronnie Stoneman, young fiddler, and Marty Lanham, back room, Station Inn, January 2002.

Mike Compton and Jolena Foster at the Station Inn on Sidemen night.

Ed Dye's Jug Band at the Station Inn in the 1980's.

Ralph Stanley at the Ryman Bluegrass Series, late 90's.

Gene Wooten at the Grand Ole Opry with the Osborne Brothers, late 90's. Oh how we miss him around here.

Mark O'Connor was a champion ark skate boarder in high school. In the late 1990's he put on a spectacular show, playing fiddle while skateboarding at high speed. Nashville Summer Lights Festival.

Roy Huskey and David Sebring jam at the Station Inn. David is playing a Chinese Moon Harp belonging to Stuart Duncan of the Nashville Bluegrass Band, which he bought while on a tour of China in the late 1980's.

Bill Monroe at Ryman Bluegrass Series, Summer, 1994

Santa Bill Monroe and Ricky Skaggs at Country Music
Foundation Christmas Party, Nashville, TN, 1987.

Bill Monroe and Lester Flatt sing together on the Grand Ole Opry.
Banjo player Jack Hicks in back. Spring, 1973.

The Whites, Buck, wife Pat, Sharon, on guitar; Cheryl, on bass;
The Bluegrass Inn, 1973. Pat just passed away on Sunday June 16, 2002. May she rest in peace.

The original Station Inn Band, Nashville, TN. Founders of The Station Inn.
L to R: Top, Bob Fowler, Red Smith, Jim Bornstein.
Bottom, Charmaine Lanham, Marty Lanham, Birdie Lee Smith, 1974.

Porter Wagoner

All photos copyright Charmaine Lanham. All rights reserved.