Erasmus, FCD
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| Quote (carlsonjok @ Mar. 20 2009,13:46) | | Quote (Erasmus @ FCD,Mar. 19 2009,21:44) | | i much prefer his work with JD Crowe in the 70s. |
I have come to bluegrass late in life*, so I am not familiar with JD Crowe, but I will try to check 'em out.
| Quote | | I can't really listen to AKUS but I have appreciated some of it. |
Well, I will admit that their music has parted ways with traditional bluegrass, but I have never really been steeped in the genre, so I tend to be a little less discriminating about what I listen to.
* I do feel compelled to state that my interest in bluegrass predates "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" It was actually these guys who got me interested in both bluegrass and Western Swing. |
Now you are talking.
for a little under 2 years IIRC JD Crowe and the New South consisted of JD Crowe (banjo) tony rice (guitar) Ricky Skaggs (mandolin and fiddle) Jerry Douglas (dobro) and I think Todd Phillips on bass. This was a fantastic band, and too good to stay together long. Tony and Ricky went on to CA to do cocaine and hookers and solo gigs, often with Douglas.
I think they only made one studio album and also a live one from a Japan tour. there are live bootlegs out there that are absolutely fantastic recordings. PM me your address and I'll send you a copy of some of those. they were recorded in hotel lobbies and shitty bars in and around the DC/VA area.
just after JDC&TNS busted up Rice, Douglas, Skaggs and some Sam Bush made an album "Manzanita" that is also a classic. You can probably find it anywhere, I think it was on Rounder Records. Today it sounds traditionalish but then it was avante garde (there is not a single track with banjo). it is a must have for anyone who loves great instrumentalists and angelic harmony singing.
Skaggs' stuff with Ralph Stanley and Keith Whitley is also classic. i think that somewhere in that mix is probably the seed that spawned the 80s-90s generation sound, but it is musical macroevolution and not variation within a kind. in other words it is impossible.
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