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Among the leading lamps of progressive bluegrass in the ’60s, the Dillards played a significant component in modernizing and popularizing the audio of bluegrass, and were also an underappreciated impact on country-rock. The group was founded by brothers Doug (banjo) and Rodney Dillard (acoustic guitar), who was raised in Salem, …

Longtime close friends John Hartford and brothers Doug and Rodney Dillard joined up with collectively, in the past due ’70s to generate one of nation music’s most eclectic rings, Dillard-Hartford-Dillard. While bluegrass offered as their major basis, the group filtered in rock and roll, reggae, and nation influences. The very …