Ronnie McCoury

Ronnie McCoury breaks new ground (Jun 2000)

Though he's happy these days to be making his home in Nashville, it wasn't always that way for Ronnie McCoury, member of his father's Del McCoury Band and longtime holder of the International Bluegrass Music Association's Mandolin Player of the Year award. In fact, he confesses, the title track of his solo debut on Rounder, "Heartbreak Town," was written about Music City shortly after his move there in 1992. "I really didn't start writing songs until I came to Nashville, and 'Heartbreak  ...