J.D. Crowe

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J.D. Crowe (born James Dee Crowe on 27 August 1937, in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American banjo player and bluegrass band leader. He formed J.D. Crowe & The Kentucky Mountain Boys who subsequently became J.D. Crowe and The New South. He also co-formed The Bluegrass Album Band. Crowe first became known during his four-year stint Jimmy Martin’s Sunny Mountain Boys, begun while he was still a teenager in the mid–1950s, contributed to scores of bluegrass classics and set a standard to which legions of banjo players and harmony singers still aspire. The Rounder Records debut he recorded in 1975 with his trailblazing band, J.D. Crowe and The New South., is widely recognized as one of the genre’s most important recordings and continues to inspire new generations more than a quarter of a century after its release. He has been sited as an influence on Terry Baucom and Sammy Shelor's banjo styles. While subsequent albums have explored both hard–driving bluegrass and creative country blends, with The Bluegrass Album Band, he was part of reintroducing audiences to the songs of the first generation’s masters in a series of influential albums that spanned more than a decade and a half. He’s earned Grammy and IBMA awards, been honored by his native state and acclaimed around the world. Today, his name is synonymous with unsurpassed mastery of bluegrass tradition, bold innovation, the nurturing of fresh talent and an uncompromising devotion to musical excellence. Yet even as he continu

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The Bluegrass Compact Disc

Straight Ahead

Blackjack

Bluegrass Holiday

The Model Church

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Lefty's Old Guitar

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Best Loved Bluegrass: 20 All-Time Favorites

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J.D. Crowe & The New South

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True Bluegrass Instrumentals

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Hand-Picked: 25 Years Of Bluegrass On Rounder Records

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My Home Ain't in the Hall of Fame

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Bluegrass Class of 1990

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