Pete Corum is probably best known for his time with bluegrass music masters Lester Flatt and Nashville Grass in the mid-1970s. He was in 2021. Passed away on December 1, at the age of 73.

Jervis “Pete” Corum from Burlington, North Carolina was born on November 4, 1948, and played bass as a substitute for the Blue Grass Boys in 1971 and 1980s.

Corum is a member of the Bluegrass Alliance (circa 1972), along with Lonnie Peerce (violin), Garland Shuping (banjo), Ronnie Prevette (mandolin) and Jack Lawrence (guitar). 

He started playing bass with Nashville Grass in the mid to late 1970s, and after Flatt's death, he stayed in a band under Curly Seckler. In addition to performing multiple shows in the United States, he also recorded three studio albums for each album. 

For a while, Corum was not a regular member of Nashville Grass, because he took time out as a member of the Cotton Patch String Band to work for the original off-Broadway hit musical Cotton Patch Gospel. He later appeared in the film version of the stage production (1988).

During this period, he also released his House of the Rising Sun album on the Program Audio label.

When Cotton Patch Gospel opened in New York City on October 21, 1981, he left the Nashville Meadows. 

The traditional folk song "Rising Sun House" is his signature song for many years. In this case (with Lester Flatt at the Berkshire Mountain Bluegrass Festival in 1978), Corum gave his powerful tenor voice freedom...

Over the years, he has toured with James Monroe and The Midnight Ramblers, playing bass and singing tenor; and (listed in no particular order) is a member of the Misty Mountain Boys; Roustabouts; the new Opry Boys; and New South Ground. 

In addition, for several years, he led his own band Pete Corum & Rising Sun, which from time to time includes former members of Bass Mountain Boys and Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys. 

Pete Corum performing at the Rt.1 Bluegrass Show 

He also starred in the touring version of "Smoke on the Mountain" in the mid-1990s and has performed in the Barn Dinner Theater in Greensboro for many years. 

Entering the New Century Corum played bass with Frank Ray's Cedar Hill band from 2006 to 2007, and worked with North Carolina picker RC Harris and his Blue Denim band as needed in 2008 and 2009.

He is well known and loved in the bluegrass music industry.

RIP Pete Kunlun 

Pete Corum and the rising sun

Lester Flatt and Nashville Meadows

Richard F. Thompson is a freelance writer who has been engaged in bluegrass music for a long time. As the two editors of British Bluegrass News, he has been interested in bluegrass music since about 1970. In addition to contributing to the magazine, in the past 30 years, he has also published articles in Country Music World, International Country, Music News, Country Music Characters, Bluegrass Unlimited, MoonShiner (Japanese Bluegrass Music Magazine) and Bluegrass Europe. He wrote the annotated series "I'm on my way back to Old Kentucky", which is a daily commemoration of Bill Monroe, and finally celebrated his 100th birthday on September 13, 2011.

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