By Request [Digipak]

Performer: Del McCoury
Distributor: RED Distribution

Notes: BY REQUEST was released in conjunction with the five-disc Del McCoury box set CELEBRATING 50 YEARS, marking the 70-year-old bluegrass legend's five decades of music-making, and is a single-disc distillation of the material found on the box. In keeping with its title, this collection presents some of the tunes that are most requested at McCoury's shows. With his hot-picking sons--mandolinist Ronnie and banjo man Robbie--at his side, he tears through everything from a bluegrassed-up version of John Sebastian's "Nashville Cats" to a high-lonesome take on Richard Thompson's "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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