Leroy Drumm
Musician · d. 2010
Leroy Drumm was the longtime songwriting partner of Pete Goble — together one of the most prolific writing teams in modern bluegrass. The Goble & Drumm catalog includes “Colleen Malone” (the Hot Rize recording that won the 1991 IBMA Song of the Year), “Tennessee 1949,” and “Big Spike Hammer” — songs that became standards in the festival circuit and on bluegrass radio.
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- Born Leroy Maxey Drumm on September 26, 1936.
- Began writing with Pete Goble (b. 1932) — a partnership profiled in Bluegrass Unlimited in 1988 for the duo’s contributions to the bluegrass repertoire.
- The Goble & Drumm catalog was widely cut by bluegrass acts of the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s — Hot Rize, the Bluegrass Cardinals, Larry Sparks, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Lonesome River Band, and many others.
- “Colleen Malone,” cut by Hot Rize, won the IBMA Song of the Year in 1991 — one of the most-played bluegrass songs of its era.
- Other Goble & Drumm titles in the bluegrass canon include “Tennessee 1949” and “Big Spike Hammer.”
- Died November 26, 2010.
