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Description: THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND.... Come visit the Nashville Bluegrass Band website, with historical and current information on the Bluegrass Legends Alan O'Bryant, Stuart Duncan, Mike Compton, Pat Enright and Andy Todd.
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Considering how many fiddle and banjo groups have formed in Music City, it’s a wonder some ordinary hackers didn’t make off with the name Nashville Bluegrass Band . Instead, providence reserved that simple, profound moniker for one of the few bands that could live up to it.
Beholden neither to first generation conservatism nor newgrass eclecticism, the Nashville Bluegrass Band has truly forged its own sound, one rooted in the blues with an acute awareness of gospel and folk traditions. Their music has an ease to it that contrasts with the edgy fire-balling of some contemporary bluegrass bands. Instead, when Alan O’Bryant and Pat Enright match their voices in close harmony and when mandolinist Mike Compton and fiddler Stuart Duncan offer their refined compliments to the songs,
They formed in 1984 to support a tour by country veteran Vernon Oxford and Grand Ole Opry comedienne Minnie Pearl . O’Bryant, Enright and Compton were founders; Duncan came along not long after. NBB may have benefited from the fact that it was never the sole outlet for its musicians. All have been in-demand session men who were thus able to bring a range of experience and growth to the band when it came time to perform or record.
Charmaine Lanham Photography