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Music has been a big part of the lives of both Eric and Kirby. Both started at an early age to play music. The group is formed and named in memory of the expedition or journey that Lewis & Clark took in their exploration
of the new territory.
Our music is like that expedition they took many years ago. From the beginning both Eric and kirby had
a fervent love for bluegrass music and with a little influence from many of the names in bluegrass such
as Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
and others has brought us to where we have come today.
Eric Lewis was born in a log house on a farm near West Plains,
Mo in 1943. He grew up in West Plains and attended school there. After graduation he went work and also started playing the
guitar and attending music parties and in 1962 he was maried and continued his music and has developed it into a unique
and very influencial part of his life.
Kirby Clark was born on a farm in Wright County, Mo near
Mountain Grove, Mo and he started playing the guitar at an early age. He developed his own style of music on the
mandolin, fiddle and guitar and with the two, Eric and Kirby have formed the Lewis and Clark Bluegrass Expedition.
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| Bill Monroe, Our influence |
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Bill's memory will live on
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The Father of
Bluegrass!
With the high lonesome sound that was the unique mark of bluegrass music,
which only Bill Monroe
could bring to perfrction and the suite that many others followed has established bluegrass music as
a premier genre of music.
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