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.