New Grass Revival will enter bluegrass HOF 10/1

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Mice elf
Bss on Friday, September 18, 2020 – 05:31 pm

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This is a set of interviews with Sam Bush, John Cowan, Pat Flynn, and Bela Fleck about some of the origins and then the later history of the band. They talk a bit about their tours (including their last show, opening for the GD NYE 89/90), a bit about their discography, their influences. Really good content here. All first hand. No fluff.

part 1. https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/new-grass-revival-sam-bush-and-jo...

part 2. https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/new-grass-revival-four-members-lo...

 

Man, what a band.

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Slickrock on Friday, September 18, 2020 – 05:59 pm

Glad to see this, BSS. Thanks for posting those. They were amazing. Trailblazers. A deserving honor. The band that got me into jamming bluegrass.  

Payback story (at least the way I heard it);

Garth Brooks was a fan. When "Friday Night In America" was climbing the charts, the first big breakout for NGR, the record company pulled all promo money from all their artists and placed all their chips on Garth. Garth felt bad about that. So a few years later when he did his greatest hits album that sold about 90 bazillion copies, he pulled the band back together into the studio and recorded "Callin' Baton Rouge" with the change being Garth on vocals. Put it on the greatest hits CD, and the check$ rolled in for the members of NGR.   

Had the pleasure of a long interview with Sam at a radio studio on the day of Jon Randall's last show with the Sam Bush Band 3-1-03. We talked some baseball, and Sam did a funny impression of Harry Carey in the late innings after a few Budweisers.