Mannix Porterfield Register-Herald Reporter Daniel Lilly must have felt a kinship with professional footballers viewing a trip to the Super Bowl as the ultimate goal, even if their team ultimately loses the big game. En route to Nashville, drummer Steve Sparks spoke positively of a first-place finish in this year’s International Bluegrass Music Association’s awards. Lilly, a son of bluegrass pioneer Everett Lilly, after whom the band is named, shrugged off the idea of taking first place. “It doesn’t matter,” the younger Lilly returned. “We were nominated.” Inside the storied Ryman Auditorium, once home to the Grand Ole Opry and now a National Historic Landmark, Lilly could hardly believe his eyes when the Lilly Mountaineers were announced as the winner of the “recorded event of the year.” “When they called our name out, read...
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