Del McCoury Band

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Del McCoury Band
Ronnie McCoury, Jason Carter, Robbie McCoury, Del McCoury, and Alan Bartram performing and the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, San Francisco, California in 2005.
Background information
Genre(s)	Bluegrass Jam band
Years active	1967–Present
Label(s)	Sugar Hill
Website	www.delmccouryband.com
Members
Del McCoury Ronnie McCoury Robbie McCoury Jason Carter Alan Bartram

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 1990's 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.

[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

[edit] External links

• Discography at Discography of Bluegrass Sound Recordings
• Official website
• Del McCoury Band collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive