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By Gerald Ochs
Rappahannock News Writer
Editor's Note: Among other things, Rappahannock County has an unusually active music scene. This short series provides a glimpse into that scene and its modern history.
Cross over the rise and its laid out before you—an incredible vista that is Rappahannock County at its best. Farms, orchards, the Blue Ridge Mountains, rivers and streams, antebellum homes, log cabins circa 1700 and something. Twohundred and sixty-seven square miles. An hour and a half from DC. A population of 7,500 with two hundred musicians in the lot. And they’re not just any musicians, but some worldclass folk.
• The Everything band—came here in 1992, fresh out of James Madison University to hone their craft and to become a factor on the national music scene.
• Stick 'Em Up-a rowdy, whimsical, reggae/ska band who won last year's Charlottesville B'and Aid competition-a win that helped them produce their "Launch" CD.
• Paul Reisler-a genius on guitar and hammered dulcimer, has been playing his unique blend of folk, new age, eastern, and mountain tunes for nearly three decades before international audiences.
• John Jackson—one of 14 children of tenant farmers Suttie and Hattie Jackson, this Rappahannock native has been referred to as "the world's foremost finger-style blues guitarist.
• Lorin Maazel—the world famous maestro moved to this sanctuary with his German-actress wife Dietlinde and their three children and created an acoustically-perfect theater, a school, and a charitable foundation to "nurture children, foster art, and reclaim the human spirit."
Is this the new Woodstock? Nah! This is its own place, and it draws to it those attuned enough to care for ft, and it for them.
The mountains were
rockin'
Back in the Sixties and Seventies, when urban sprawl meant nothing more than a guy on a couch in Hoboken, Rappahannock turned into a destination for those alternative lifestylers, the hippies. They came to live communal lives, to practice their arts, to groove in the mountains, to play some music.
Barry Muthersbaugh came here a
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