The Adcocks

Martha and Eddie

On June 14, 1987, the state of Virginia held Eddie Adcock Day to coincide with his induction into the Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame.

Be that as it may, since 1958, Eddie has called Nashville home.

"Used to be that the capital of bluegrass was Washington, DC, but that changed," he says. "Everybody moved down here ... and it's where things are happening."

Martha "moved down" in the early 1970s, fulfilling a lifelong dream.

"When I started writing songs, and then when I was a teenager, I started thinking about Nashville," she recalls. "It had become a hotbed, an amalgamation of the kinds of music that I was really enjoying -- everything from folk to bluegrass to old timey and country."

It still is a hotbed, and it still is where things (musically, at least) are happening.

June

Who are these bluegrass lovebirds?

This husband-and-wife duo have been performing together for nearly 40 years. They met in Nashville in 1973, after his notable banjo-playing stints with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys and the Country Gentlemen.

Together, they performed in II Generation and Talk of the Town before striking out as a duo under their own names. I saw them perform a few times at festivals in the Midwest during the '90s. They always can be counted on to put on a high-quality and entertaining show.

Significant June dates in bluegrass history

• 1st: Hazel Dickens was born (1935)
• 7th: Clarence White was born (1944)
• 8th: Tony Rice (1951) and Sara Watkins (1981) were born
• 14th: Eddie Adcock was inducted in the Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame (1987)
• 16th: First recording of "Orange Blossom Special" by the Rouse Brothers (1939)
• 19th: Lester Flatt was born (1914)
• 20th: Ira Louvin died (1965) and Dan Tyminski was born (1967)
• 22nd: Jim & Jesse record "Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes" (1962)
• 26th: Kenny Baker was born (1926) and Bill Harrell died (2009)