(vocals, guitar, b. 1942) grew up in Missouri’s Ozark Mountains but ended up in California where they portrayed Mayberry’s local bluegrass band on television’s Andy Griffith Show. The Dillards, featuring mandolinist Dean Webb and electric bassist Mitch Jayne, soon mixed their bluegrass with Bob Dylan songs and a drummer, paving the way for the California country-rock ...
Jam charity concerts, but he gradually became more conservative in his music and his politics. Styles & Forms | Country Rock & The Outlaws | Country Personalities | The Dillards | Country Rock & The Outlaws | Country ...
Red Smiley and fiddler Kenny Baker, would enrich and expand upon bluegrass’s traditional roots throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Bluegrass To Newgrass Young, progressive bluegrass artists like The Dillards, Roland and Clarence White and Byron Berline were part of a 1960s and 1970s renaissance that came to be called newgrass. Other pioneering newgrass bands like The New Grass Revival, ...
of hillbilly harmonies and thumping backbeat. Most of these were based in California, where The Eagles, Poco, Linda Ronstadt, Michael Nesmith, John Stewart, The Dillards, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Crosby, Stills And Nash led a country-rock scene that finally paid off with pop hits for many of the acts. Meanwhile, ...
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