Tom Ewing
Thomas Dollison Ralston “Tom” Ewing (1946—) is a bluegrass guitarist, singer, author, and journalist born in Columbus, Ohio. He performed with Earl Taylor’s Stoney Mountain Boys in 1973 before working as a radio broadcaster on WOSU's Bluegrass Ramble from 1978 to 1986. He served as the final long-term lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys from 1986 to 1996. He is the editor of The Bill Monroe Reader (2000) and wrote the biographical monograph Bill Monroe: The Life and Music of the Blue Grass Man, published by the University of Illinois Press in 2018. He won the International Bluegrass Music Association Distinguished Achievement Award for his musicological and journalistic work.
In the newsletter
- No. 31 December 2002