David Grisman is normally associated with the bluegrass wing of country music, but his music owes almost as much to jazz as it does to traditional American folk influences. Because he couldn't think of what to call his unique, highly intricate, harmonically advanced hybrid of acoustic bluegrass, folk, and jazz without leaning toward one idiom or... [+] Read More

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Lending his virtuosic mandolin to a hefty number of recordings, Ronnie McCoury made his biggest splash when he joined his father Del's band as both a singer and instrumentalist, also cutting a duo album with his brother Rob for Rounder in 1995. Buoyed by the national exposure gained through the Del McCoury Band's collaboration with renegade... [+] Read More

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