McCoury Band, Preservation Hall join forces
Friday, February 4, 2011 – Del McCoury Band and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band are joining forces to release their collaborative "American Legacies" project on April 12 via McCoury Music and Preservation Hall Recordings.
Inspired by the success of McCoury's participation on 2010's Preservation, a PHJB project made with multiple artists to benefit New Orleans' Preservation Hall venue and its Music Outreach Program, the set offers a dozen songs.
The two also are touring together that will feature them performing on their own and together.
Founded just a few years before McCoury joined Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band has been carrying the sound of New Orleans jazz around the world on behalf of Preservation Hall, a unique venue that embodies the city's musical legacy .
More news for Del McCoury Band
- 09/27/24: McCoury wins big ass IBMA awards
- 01/29/20: DelFest adds Leftover Salmon, Jerry Douglas Band, Tuttle
- 03/12/18: McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass
- 01/27/14: McCoury Band wins second Grammy
- 06/04/09: McCoury boys receive hometown honor
- 04/03/07: Vince Gill adds Del McCoury Band, Amy Grant to summer tour
CD reviews for Del McCoury Band
Del McCoury has a track record of more than a half-century of top-notch, thoroughly professional bluegrass performance and recording artistry, and if any suspect or fear that, as he nears his 75th birthday, age and almost six decades on the road have started to take a toll on his singular voice, this new release will lay all such fears to rest.
It's vintage Del, will be completely satisfying to longtime fans and hard to beat as an introduction for new ones. The title track is, of course, ...
Working within the influences of two American musics - New Orleans jazz and bluegrass - "American Legacies" provides 47-minutes of enjoyable, challenging music. While the album is far from the boundary-stretching bluegrass that has become the hallmark of the McCoury sound, the resulting alchemy is mind-blowing. Call it Bourbangrass, call it Del Orleans: it works.
While not fully understanding the complexities of these venerable music styles - with both jazz and bluegrass having ...
From Sweet Appalachia to his girl leaning on a car fender in all of her Barbaric Splendor, Del McCoury reminds us his music and rural life is far from unsophisticated. The songs range from the straight bluegrass of Hello Lonely to the near swing tune I Remember You sung in high lonesome. There are waltzes, breakdowns, gold rush story songs and odes to moonshine in The Revenuer's Blues.
Del McCoury is a bluegrass singing man, but perhaps a touch more mellow these days. ...
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