Everett Alan Lilly

Image No. 65-11-22: Sitting on the Fence Cambridge, Mass., July 1965 (Left to right: John Cooke, Everett Alan Lilly, Joe Val, Bob Siggins.)

Image No. 65-11-22: Sitting on the Fence Cambridge, Mass., July 1965 (Left to right: John Cooke, Everett Alan Lilly, Joe Val, Bob Siggins.)

Image No. 65-11-28 Picking by the River Cambridge, Mass., July 1965 (Left to right: John Cooke, Everett Alan Lilly, Joe Val, Bob Siggins.)

Image No. 65-11-28 Picking by the River Cambridge, Mass., July 1965 (Left to right: John Cooke, Everett Alan Lilly, Joe Val, Bob Siggins.)

Image No. 65-11-32 Goofing Around (Left to right: John Cooke, Joe Val, Everett Alan Lilly, Bob Siggins)

Image No. 65-11-32 Goofing Around (Left to right: John Cooke, Joe Val, Everett Alan Lilly, Bob Siggins)

Image No. 65-11-30 On the Banks of the Charles (Left to right: Joe Val, John Cooke, Everett Alan Lilly, Bob Siggins.) The Charles River Valley Boys got together at Harvard College to play old-timey music. When banjoist Bob Siggins learned Scruggs-st

Image No. 65-11-30 On the Banks of the Charles (Left to right: Joe Val, John Cooke, Everett Alan Lilly, Bob Siggins.) The Charles River Valley Boys got together at Harvard College to play old-timey music. When banjoist Bob Siggins learned Scruggs-style picking, the band added bluegrass to its repertoire. John Cooke joined the CRVB when the original guitar player indefinitely extended a European sojourn. After the group disbanded in 1968, Joe Val, the great mandolinist and high-lonesome singer, founded his own group, the New England Bluegrass Boys. Joe and his Boys appeared several times on "Prairie Home Companion" in its early years.