A Deeper Shade Of Blue

Performer: Del McCoury
Artist: Jerry Douglas
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel includes: Del McCoury (vocals); Jerry Douglas (dobro); Ronnie McCoury (mandolin); Robbie McCoury (banjo). A DEEPER SHADE OF BLUE was nominated for a 1995 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. Del McCoury's love affair with the blues is never more explicit than on A Deeper Shade of Blue, a classic from the word go, where songs with the titles like "Cheek to Cheek with the Blues," "A Deeper Shade of Blue," and "The Bluest Man in Town" are the order of the day. Never a purist when it comes to songs, McCoury covers Kevin Welch's "True Love Never Dies," Willie Nelson's "Man with the Blues," and the Jerry Lee Lewis hit "What Made Milwaukee Famous." His version of Lefty Frizzell's "If You've Got the Money Honey" is downright piercing. ~ Brian Mansfield

Dirty Linen (6-7/94, p.57) - "...There's no voice quite as distinct in bluegrass as that of Del McCoury....[A DEEPER SHADE OF BLUE] finds him continuing to put the "blues" back in bluegrass....In sons Robbie and Ronnie, McCoury has some of the finest banjo and mandolin talent to be had..."

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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