Dennis Crouch (bassist)

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Dennis Crouch (born January 19, 1967) is an American double bassist raised in Strawberry, Arkansas, United States. [1]

He came from a musical family and started playing bass when he was eight years old. In 1996 he moved to Nashville, Tennessee. Two years later, he co-founded the Time Jumpers, a western swing band. He left the band in 2012. He has recorded and performed with Gregg Allman, T Bone Burnett, Johnny Cash, Elvis Costello, Harry Connick Jr., Elton John, Diana Krall, Alison Krauss, Imelda May, Willie Nelson, Robert Plant, Steven Tyler, [2] [3] [4] John Mellencamp, Ralph Stanley, Paula Cole, Loretta Lynn, Vince Gill, The Chieftains, and Steve Earle.

He played on the 2003 album Wildwood Flower , [5] which won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album. [6]

Crouch played bass on the mid-2021 Bob Dylan recordings of "Blowin' in the Wind," "Masters of War," "The Times They Are A-Changin'," "Simple Twist of Fate," "Gotta Serve Somebody," and "Not Dark Yet", produced by T-Bone Burnett and recorded and mixed by Michael Piersante, for a one-time sale as Ionic Originals. [7]

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