The Best of Del McCoury: The Groovegrass Years [PA]

Performer: Del McCoury
Engineer: Gary Paczosa; Scott Rouse; Bootsy Collins
Producer: Scott Rouse
Distributor: Ryko Distribution

Notes: Del McCoury is one of the most renowned bluegrass artists of his generation (not to mention the next), but THE BEST OF DEL MCCOURY: THE GROOVEGRASS YEARS chronicles a relatively esoteric chapter in his history. In the late 1990s, McCoury played on some of producer Scott Rouse's Groovegrass Boyz sessions, which mated bluegrass with hip-hop beats, as well as recording more traditional tracks under Rouse's watch. This collection features some of the pearls from McCoury's various Rouse-helmed projects. It includes cuts from a trio album featuring McCoury, Doc Watson, and Mac Wiseman, and there are no less than six previously unreleased recordings by McCoury and his band. For the curious, there's also one Groovegrass cut, on which Bill Monroe's "Can't You Hear Me Calling" is the recipient of a striking streetwise update.

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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