Nashville Bluegrass Band

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Nashville Bluegrass Band
Origin Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Genres Bluegrass
Years active1984 (1984)–present
Members
Past members
Website nashvillebluegrassband.net

The Nashville Bluegrass Band is an American bluegrass music ensemble founded in 1984.

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The group's members first played together in 1984 as a backing band for Vernon Oxford and Minnie Pearl; each of the members was an established musician from the Nashville bluegrass community. [1] They signed to Rounder Records and recorded their Béla Fleck-produced debut, My Native Home, in 1985. Incorporating elements of black gospel and spirituals, then a rarity in bluegrass, they became critical and popular successes both in America and abroad. The group toured in some 20 countries and were the first bluegrass band to ever play in China. [2]

The group continued to record for Rounder and Sugar Hill into the 1990s; two of the albums, 1993's Waitin' for the Hard Times to Go and 1995's Unleashed, won Grammy Awards for Best Bluegrass Album. [3] Other albums were nominated for Grammys in the same category in 1988, 1990, 1991, 1998, and 2004. [2] After the departure of bassist Gene Libbea and mandolinist Roland White in 1998, the group went on a brief hiatus, but after vocalist Pat Enright sang as one of the Soggy Bottom Boys from O Brother, Where Art Thou? , the group's career had a revival. They played as the backing group for many performers on the Down from the Mountain tour and album, and toured again on their own in the 2000s.

Members

Current members

Past members

Discography

ReleasedTitleLabelNumberNotes
1985My Native Home Rounder 0212LP
1986Idle Time Rounder 0232LP
1987To Be His Child Rounder 0242gospel LP, reissued on CD
1988New Moon Rising Sugar Hill CD 3762Grammy nominee, with Peter Rowan
1990The Boys Are Back in Town Sugar Hill CD 3778Grammy nominee
1991The Nashville Bluegrass Band Rounder CD 0232CD compiled from My Native Home and Idle Time LPs
1991Home of the Blues Sugar Hill CD 3793Grammy nominee
1993 Waitin' for the Hard Times to Go Sugar Hill CD 3809Grammy winner
1995 Unleashed Sugar Hill CD 3843Grammy winner. Some sources list the pre-release title as Still Unplugged
1998American Beauty Sugar Hill CD 3882Grammy nominee
2004Twenty Year Blues Sugar Hill CD 3959Grammy nominee
2007Best of the Sugar Hill Years Sugar Hill CD 4036compilation, 1990–2004

References

  1. ↑ "Nashville Bluegrass Band Biography". Keith Case & Associates. Archived from the original on August 6, 2010. Retrieved August 21, 2010.
  2. 1 2 Nashville Bluegrass Band at Allmusic
  3. ↑ Grammy Awards, Allmusic.com
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