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With regards to ultra-smooth, virtuosic bluegrass, a couple of few rings in the class of California. Led by fiddler Byron Berline and flatpicking guitarist Dan Crary, the quintet radiates with instrumental brilliance. The genesis of California dates back more than 2 decades when Berline produced a new music group, Sundance, …

David Grisman is generally from the bluegrass wing of nation music, but his music owes almost as very much to jazz since it does to traditional American folk influences. Because he couldn’t think about what to contact his unique, extremely elaborate, harmonically advanced cross types of acoustic bluegrass, folk, and …

Among the all-time great jazz violinists (position with Joe Venuti and Stuff Smith among the big 3 of pre-bop), Stéphane Grappelli’s durability and consistently enthusiastic performing did too much to establish the violin being a jazz device. He was originally self-taught as both a violinist along with a pianist, although …

The band profiled within this bio shouldn’t be confused with a Euro duo that’s also known as the Wayfaring Strangers; that acoustic twosome (which dates back to 1994) includes British guitarist/vocalist Neil Offer and German mandolinist/vocalist Martin Ahrndt, whereas the Wayfaring Strangers profiled within this bio (who may also be …

b. William Milton Dark brown, 8 Sept 1903, Stephenville, Tx, USA, d. 18 Apr 1936, Fort Value, Tx, USA. In 1918, the family members transferred to Fort Value where, after completing his education and medical a strong need to be an entertainer, Dark brown worked being a salesman using the …

Nashville local Michael Barnett continues to be immersed in bluegrass and nation music since picking right up the fiddle at age four. His youngsters was spent learning his art at fiddle camps and workshops where he was subjected to a variety of designs and affects. After documenting his first recording …

Along with his older brother Jim McReynolds, mandolin and fiddle player Jesse McReynolds was area of the longstanding bluegrass duo Jim & Jesse, who formed soon after World War II and performed until Jim McReynolds’ death on December 31, 2002. After fashioning a posthumous Jim & Jesse launch, ‘Tis Sweet …

Merging jazz with country, Vassar Clements became perhaps one of the most distinctive, inventive, and well-known fiddlers in bluegrass music. Clements initial found prominence as an associate of Costs Monroe’s music group in the first ’50s, but he hardly ever limited himself to traditional bluegrass. On the following four years, …

Being among the most distinguished practitioners of traditional bluegrass, Del McCoury was the epitome of the “high lonesome sound” for over three decades. Blessed Delano Floyd McCoury, he grew up in Bakersville, NEW YORK. In 1941, he and his family members transferred to Glen Rock and roll, Pa, where he …

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 …