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Nation super-sessionman Joe “Curley” Smyth spent the majority of his amount of time in Nashville through the 1980s and ’90s, however the classically trained drummer had previously used many Florida symphony orchestras. Delivered in sunlight Condition in 1957, Smyth went to the esteemed Berklee College of Music as well as …

Texas modern bluegrass trio the Greencards are aptly named. After arriving at the realization that their British and Australian homelands weren’t so conducive with their exclusively American design of music, mandolin participant Kim Warner, fiddler Eamon McLoughlin, and bass participant Carol Young got their like of Ricky Skaggs and Bob …

The son from the renowned Earl Scruggs, singer/songwriter Randy Scruggs was for many decades among Nashville’s most sought-after producers and session players, collaborating with everyone from Waylon Jennings to George Strait to Emmylou Harris throughout a prolific career dating back again to the 1970 release of all Way House, a …

A significant cult figure among progressive bluegrass aficionados, Peter Rowan participated in several adventurous projects in the later ’60s and ’70s before getting into an extremely productive solo career. Mainly a guitarist, Rowan also sang, yodeled, and performed various members from the mandolin family members. He was created in 1942 …

Earl Scruggs was to the five-string banjo what Paganini was to the violin. Within the Foggy Hill Boys and afterwards Flatt & Scruggs (both with Lester Flatt), he developed the audio of bluegrass and helped take it to nationwide reputation through radio displays, recordings, television performances, and concerts. Through the …