Celebrating 50 Years Of Del McCoury [Box]

Performer: Del McCoury
Engineer: David Ferguson; Lee Groitzsch; Mark Howard; Neal Cappellino; Bradley Hartman; Brent King
Producer: Del McCoury; Jerry Douglas; Ronnie McCoury
Distributor: RED Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Del McCoury (guitar); B�la Fleck (vocals); Jerry Douglas (dobro); Rob McCoury (banjo); Ronnie McCoury (mandolin); Jason Carter , Stuart Duncan (fiddle). Audio Mixers: David Ferguson; Neal Cappellino; Steve Chandler; Brent King. Recording information: Hum Depot; Massterlink; Monkey Finger; Scruggs Sound; Skaggs Place Studio; The Butcher Shoppe; Trace Sound. To commemorate five decades of making music, bluegrass legend Del McCoury found a way to honor his legacy while still doing something new. This five-disc box set is a combination of great tunes cherry-picked from previous McCoury albums and newly recorded versions of tracks McCoury laid down early in his career. Naturally, he's accompanied by his family band, including sons Ronnie on mandolin and Robbie on banjo, but the 70-year-old singer/guitarist is very much the star of this show, whether he's belting out a country standard like "Dark Hollow" or delivering an adaptation of Richard Thompson's outlaw ballad "1952 Vincent Black Lightning."

Singer/mandolinist Del McCoury's career had the most auspicious beginning a bluegrass musician can hope for; in the mid-1960s he was a member of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. He kicked off his solo career a couple of years later, and by the '70s he had found a middle ground between bluegrass traditionalism and the open-minded "newgrass" approach, becoming a highly influential artist in the process. In the '80s, McCoury truly codified his style, forming a tight band that included his sons Ronnie and Rob. THE MOUNTAIN, their 1999 collaboration with Steve Earle, raised the band's profile even further, endearing them to non-country audiences and neatly dovetailing with the early-2000s O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?-inspired bluegrass resurgence.

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