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Del McCoury
CD Reviews
- Almost Proud (2022)
- Del And The Boys (2001)
- Del and Woody (2016)
- High, Lonesome and Blue (2004)
- Mac, Doc & Del (1998)
- The Mountain (1999)
Other CDs
- Celebrating Fifty Years of Del McCoury (McCoury Music, 2009)
Articles and Interviews
Del McCoury has long been acclaimed as a leading force in bluegrass. These days, with one album currently high up on the Americana chart and two more to follow in February, McCoury might also be viewed as the hardest working man in bluegrass. McCoury, 59 on Feb. 1, was inspired early on by his mother, who played guitar, piano and banjo. His older brother taught him how to play guitar, but McCoury says it was "when I heard Earl Scruggs, that's what really turned me on to playing." After playing in various regional bands in the Baltimore area, McCoury's first big break came in February 1963 when he joined the legendary Bill Monroe. ...
Del McCoury et al are winners, again (Dec 1997)
It's official: the Del McCoury Band rules. The Nashville-based ensemble once again took the International Bluegrass Music Association's Entertainer Of The Year award, and followed it up with a near-lock on the instrumental awards. Three of its five members won top honors on their respective instruments, and the band as a whole took Instrumental Group Of The Year. "It's always an honor to win awards like that," McCoury says. "I'm so busy, I hardly think about it beforehand, so it's ...
News Items
- McCoury, Stringdusters, Shovel & Rope are out today (Feb 2022)
- Childers, Keen, Jerry Douglas Band join DelFest (Feb 2022)
- DelFest returns after two-year COVID absence (Dec 2021)
- DelFest returns in September (Mar 2021)
- DelFest names Old Crow, Punch Brothers as lead performers (Nov 2019)
- McCourys, Ell dominate releases (May 2018)
- Old Crow, Leftover Salmon, TBT play Delfest (Jan 2015)
- IBMA celebrates McCoury's 75th (Aug 2014)
- Rob McCoury announces first solo disc (Jun 2014)
- Rimes, McCoury lead new releases (Sep 2011)
- McCoury receives national honor (Jun 2010)
- McCoury undergoes gall bladder surgery (Dec 2009)
- Del McCoury readies new CD (Sep 2009)
- Del McCoury plans box set (Mar 2009)
- Del McCoury tapped to host IBMA show (Aug 2008)
- Del McCoury's "Moneyland" concept CD drops (Jul 2008)
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