The Del McCoury Band is a Grammy Award-winning bluegrass band. Originally Del McCoury and the Dixie Pals with Del on guitar and his brother Jerry on bass, the band went through a number of changes until the 1980s when the band solidified its line-up, adding McCoury's sons, Ronnie and Robbie on mandolin and banjo, respectively. In 1988, the "Dixie Pals" name was dropped in favor of the current name.Fiddler Tad Marks and bass player Mike Brantley joined in the early 1990s while the band became a n...
The Del McCoury Band is a Grammy Award-winning bluegrass band. Originally Del McCoury and the Dixie Pals with Del on guitar and his brother Jerry on bass, the band went through a number of changes until the 1980s when the band solidified its line-up, adding McCoury's sons, Ronnie and Robbie on mandolin and banjo, respectively. In 1988, the "Dixie Pals" name was dropped in favor of the current name.Fiddler Tad Marks and bass player Mike Brantley joined in the early 1990s while the band became a national touring act. In 2004 they were nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album for It's Just the Night, and in 2006 they won that category for The Company We Keep.
The band recorded with Steve Earle on his 1999 album The Mountain.
Contents [hide] 1 Band members 2 Discography 2.1 Albums 2.2 Contributions 3 External links
[edit] Band members Del McCoury - guitar (1967 - present) Ronnie McCoury - mandolin (1981 - present) Robbie McCoury - banjo (1987 - present) Jerry McCoury - bass (1967 - 1989) Mike Brantley - bass (1989-1992) Mike Bub - bass (May 1992 - June 2005) Alan Bartram - bass (August 2005 - present) Billy Baker - fiddle (1967) Tad Marks- fiddle (1990-1992) Jason Carter - fiddle (1992 - present)
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums Year Album US Bluegrass US Country US Indie US Heat 1992 Blue Side of Town 1993 Deeper Shade of Blue 1996 The Cold Hard Facts 1999 The Mountain (w/ Steve Earle)A 19 The Family 2001 Del & The Boys 11 50 2003 It's Just the Night 4 47 32 48 2005 The Company We Keep 2 59 2006 The Promised LandB 2 61 46 39 2008 Moneyland 1 51
AThe Mountain also peaked at #133 on the Billboard 200 and at #14 on the Canadian Country Albums chart. BThe Promised Land also peaked at #24 on Top Christian Albums.
[edit] Contributions Song of America (2007) - "The Times They Are a-Changin'"
[edit] External links Discography at Discography of Bluegrass Sound Recordings Official website Del McCoury Band collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_McCoury_Band" Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
