Category: Featured | Billy Bratcher's Blog

Lake George Elvis Festival

Featured | Aug 04, 2018

The quaint Adirondack town of Lake George, NY is absolutely consumed with the memory of Elvis Presley each May. Elvis fans and ETA’s ( Elvis Tribute Artists) gather from as far away as Japan to pay homage to The King, including my own performing son ! The towns… Read More
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Leon Redbones guitars

Featured | Aug 04, 2018

As Leon Redbone enters retirement,the time was right as well as the opportunity to acquire two significant Leon on the couch on the Carson set 1992. instruments used by him. The first was his earliest recorded and professionally played. A mid 60’s Harmony with down home vagabond… Read More
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Rocking your Vermont Wedding: Sites & Sounds

Featured | May 31, 2017

Moonlight Wedding in Vermont Rockin wedding at Basin Harbor Club. Class & elegance awaits you at The Sheraton Burlington’s Emerald Ballroom. Starline Rhythm Boys at The Inn at Shelburne Farms Vermont weddings are unique in the sense of the many options of venues offered. It… Read More
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Classic Vermont Barn Dance

Featured | May 22, 2017

Driving north on Vermont 14 on a beautiful crisp Saturday afternoon past meandering rivers neath covered bridges while listening to Lightnin Hopkins just seemed perfect on this Spring afternoon. The evenings show was to take place at The Rowell family barn. It was a fundraiser for The Craftsbury… Read More
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Naucks Record Auction

Featured | May 09, 2017

I recently participated in my first Naucks record auction with a winning result. Naucks is a high end professional 78 record auction that’s held once a month in Texas. The record I won is one I have dreamed of owning. Bill Johnsons Louisiana Jug Band on Brunswick. I was absolutely… Read More
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Pre War 78’s

Featured | Feb 18, 2017

Collecting pre war Jazz, Blues, Hillbilly and Jug band shellac is rewarding, sometimes heartbreaking and can be dangerous water to tread. Many would forgo dinner out with the family for a new disc. Snow tires on the car, not when there is a rare Paramount up for auction that you… Read More
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Reflecting on the Last 20 Years

Featured | Jan 23, 2017

For 19 years my bandmates and I have followed our clients directions to the next show that have wound up in the most surreal, rural destinations imaginable.The settings have often been breathtaking, but as we traveled neath maple draped dirt roads it was often wondered by my trusty navigator Big… Read More
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The Mr. Burlington Campaign

Featured | Dec 07, 2016

Recently I was honored to be chosen as a finalist in Citizen Ciders search to find the right ” Mr.Burlington ” in our town of Burlington,Vermont. It was a genius promotional idea from the fine folks at this nationally known Cider Company. It was an election that took place in… Read More
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