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Craig
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noted at 09:15PM 01/11/08
Great Album. It has always been one of my favorites since my ASU days where I seen them in concert


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J.D. Crowe & The New South
J.D. Crowe & the New South


In a sense, this album did for bluegrass what bebop did for jazz: it intellectualized the music. Banjo picker J.D. Crowe, guitarist Tony Rice, Dobro player Jerry Douglas, fiddler-mandolinist Ricky Skaggs, and bassist Bobby Slone injected a jazz sensibility into the proceedings. The rigid rhythmic patterns of bluegrass picking were softened and complex scales were introduced, allowing the soloists more flexibility in how they improvised. Earlier bands such as the Seldom Scene and the Country Gentlemen had ... read more

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