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Howdy Friends, Welcome to the Myspace page of the Bluefield Bluegrass Band! We hope you enjoy our many musical adventures! You never know what the BBB might put up to next. From live recordings at Grindstone Campground to sunrise services at the snake church, our style of music is unique from anything most folks have ever heard. Only you can decide if you love us or hate us. We do hope to put a smile on your face either way. Despite posting photos, videos, and songs of snake handling churches, the BBB does not attend these types of churches nor do we participate in snake handling. We have just become very interested in studying the history and culture of these "Holy Ghost People". Like it or not, this type of practice still goes on here in the hills of West Virginia and to us it is very interesting. Our videos are here simply to enjoy and learn more about this culture. We do have a good laugh on the subject from time to time but we do not have an objective of making fun of these folks. We respect their choices and admire their faith. Outside of our curiousity of the local snake handlers, we try to document as many of our other adventures as we can in our blogs - and there are many of'em. Little Charles just finished one about a horrible event that took place at his half-brother Sammy Hunley's funeral! Charles is working with the local authorities to have a photo relased that he took that sums up the whole event. They are still trying to dry out poor old Sammy's body. I can't wait for you to read what Little Charles has to report about this! Send us a friend request or drop us a line. Be sure to tell mama and them we said hello and to keep supper warm for us we will be home in a bit. Thank you so much for stopping by!Uncle Ralph..
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Member Since: 29/04/2007
Band Members: MC - Mandolin - Bass Vocals ...... Uncle Ralph Curtis
Lead Vocals - Rythym Guitar ...... Bernie Wise
Bass Guitar - Baritone Vocals ..... Leroy Spivey
Lead Guitar - Harmony Vocals .... Hershel Pennington
Special Vocal Appearance .......... Little Charles Hunley
Road Manager - Driver ........... Leon KiblingerCome visit my store on CafePress!..

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Influences:SNAKE IN THE CHURCHSNAKE IN THE ROAD!WE TAKE THIS KIT EVERYWHERE WE GO-D' !!!!!
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In Memory of Little Charles' half-brother Sammy Hunley 1974-2008.
Sounds Like: No one that we know. We are just being silly. We are not trying to imitate or make fun of anyone.Thanks to Brother Turner and his folks from Camp Creek for this video filmed in 1967. Holy Ghost People - it is a 6 part video found on youtube. The service takes place in Scrabble Creek West, Va. The Bluefield Bluegrass plans to do a recording of the song featured in this video called "bring down the rain". Onced' we learn it, we aim to travel on up to Scrabble Creek and join in on a service and sing it for the good folks. We reckon it is about 60 miles on up the road from Camp Creek. If you watch this video and get a little interested, watch video 6, the feller doing the preaching is Rev. Elza O Preast. He is shown getting snake bit but continues with the sermon. In the end you see his hand swelled about twice the normal size from the bite. It was not said if he lived or died. Some say he did others say no.....How did the little town of JoLo, Wv. get it's name?:
Pastor JoLo Singleton
JoLo Mountain
Mayor Johnny JoLo Murphy
First Postmaster - Joseph Lowe

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My Blog

Bluefield Bluegrass Band has a stalker

Well folks,It seems the recent spike in fame has brought out of the woodwork some type of a stalker.  Poor ole lil' Charles has been getting mean phone calls from some feller that calles himself Gilme...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:41:00 GMT

NEW Prison Ministry !!!

Little Charles has come up with a pretty good idea.  On Thanksgiving, he was visiting his cousin who lives over in Huntington.  Well, his cousin had him one of them satellite dishes for his ...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:04:00 GMT

BBB Gets a tour bus!

Well Friends: Little Charles gave me a call earlier this week and told me that he had an early Christmas Gift for me and the boys in the band.  You can only imagine the surprise in our eyes when ...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:32:00 GMT

New CD: "Get Well, Uncle Ralph - Bedside Hymns By Bernie Wise"

Those of you that follow the Bluefield Bluegrass Band will remember the snake bite that I suffered during our participation of a service at the Holiness Freewill independant mountain church of the sai...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:44:00 GMT

Camp Creek

In the Army of the Lord:Serpent-Handlers in West Virginia August 8, 1975 Dave Peyton Story in .rtf "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name they shall cast out devils; they shall s...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:25:00 GMT

Holy Ghost People

..TR> ..TR> "THEY SHALL TAKE UP SERPENTS" - Faith On Scrabble Creek (01/11/2008) Mark 16:17-18: "And these signs shall follow them thatbelieve; In my name shall they cast out devils; theyshall s...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:22:00 GMT

Star Treatment - Eatin at the Crackers Barrell

Momma,I am here to tell you we have hit it big time! Well, tommorrow night we have a benefit singing at TC's house of worship. After we got in town, Revern TC took ous out for a bite to eat. We have n...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:33:00 GMT

Sammy’s Funeral

I'm here to tell ya, this was not a very good weekend for the Hunley family - especially for that Little Charles.  In case you haven't heard, Little Charles' half-brother, Sammy, died last week.&...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:41:00 GMT

Get your BBB Cd on Ebay!

Little Charles got in some serious trouble from his mamma after buying, labeling,  burning, and mailing out 26 free cds to our myspace fans.  When mama went to count their money fr...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:40:00 GMT

Return to the West Virginia Snake Church

After being bitten last year, Uncle Ralph made his return to the snake church in McDowell County WV.  We were asked not to take photographs during the service but Pastor R. S. allowed Ralph to ta...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:37:00 GMT