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Sugar Hill Records
Sugar Hill Records is an American bluegrass and Americana record label. It was founded in Durham, North Carolina in 1978 by Barry Poss with assistance from David Freeman, the owner of County Records and Rebel Records. Poss acquired full control of Sugar Hill in 1980 and owned the label until 1998,...
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Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music.
In the four-and-a-half decades since her national-chart début, she...
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- Jan 19, 1946 (age 63 years)
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Doc Watson
Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (born March 3, 1923) is an American guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. He has won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's...
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- Mar 3, 1923 (age 86 years)
Townes Van Zandt
John Townes Van Zandt (March 7, 1944 – January 1, 1997), best known as Townes Van Zandt, was a country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet. Many of his songs, including "If I Needed You," "To Live Is To Fly," and "No Place to Fall" are...
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- Mar 7, 1944
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- Jan 1, 1997 (age 52 years)
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Nickel Creek
Nickel Creek was an American acoustic music trio. Although the group's music has roots from bluegrass, the trio describes itself as "progressive acoustic". Nickel Creek consisted of three permanent members: Chris Thile (mandolin), Sara Watkins ...
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- 1989
Marty Stuart
John Marty Stuart (born September 30, 1958) is an American country music singer, known for both his traditional style, and eclectic merging of rockabilly, honky tonk, and traditional country music. In the early 1990s, he had a successful string of...
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- Sep 30, 1958 (age 51 years)
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Charlie Waller
Charlie Waller (Born Charles Otis Waller, January 19, 1935 – August 18, 2004) was the lead singer and guitarist for the legendary bluegrass band the Country Gentlemen. Waller was involved with the Country Gentlemen for 47 years. As a member of the...
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- Jan 19, 1935
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- Aug 18, 2004 (age 69 years)
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Chris Hillman
Christopher Hillman (born December 4, 1944, Los Angeles, California) was one of the original members of The Byrds in 1965 with Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, David Crosby, and Michael Clarke.
Along with frequent collaborator Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman...
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- Dec 4, 1944 (age 65 years)
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Robert Earl Keen
Robert Earl Keen, Junior (born January 11, 1956 in Houston, Texas) is a Texan singer-songwriter. He is popular with traditional country music fans, folk music fans, the college radio crowd and alt-country fans. Keen currently resides in Kerrville,...
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- Jan 11, 1956 (age 53 years)
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New Grass Revival
New Grass Revival was a progressive bluegrass band founded in 1971 and composed of Sam Bush, Courtney Johnson, Ebo Walker, Curtis Burch, Butch Robins, Béla Fleck and Pat Flynn. They were active between 1971 and 1989, releasing more than twenty...
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Sara Watkins
Sara Ullrika Watkins (born June 8, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and fiddler. Watkins debuted in 1999 as the fiddler of the progressive bluegrass group Nickel Creek, which consists of herself, her elder brother Sean, and mandolinist Chris...
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- Jun 8, 1981 (age 28 years)
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Del McCoury Band
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...
Scott Miller
Scott Miller is a rock and roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
Born in 1968, Miller grew up on a farm in Swoope, Virginia. After graduating from William and Mary, he moved to Knoxville, Tennessee in 1990. In 1994, he helped form a band called...
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Jerry Douglas
Jerry Douglas (born Gerald Calvin Douglas, May 28, 1956 in Warren, Ohio) is an American producer and resonator guitar player. Called "Dobro's matchless contemporary master," by The New York Times, lauded as "my favorite musician" by no less than...
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- May 28, 1956 (age 53 years)
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Allison Moorer
Allison Moorer (born June 21, 1972) is a Grammy and Academy Award nominated American alternative country singer and the younger sister of Shelby Lynne. She signed to MCA Nashville in 1998 and made her debut on the U.S. Billboard country charts with...
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- Jun 21, 1972 (age 37 years)
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Kentucky Thunder
Kentucky Thunder, or Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, is the band that plays with Ricky Skaggs. Many members of the band have won numerous awards. Bandleader Ricky Skaggs plays mandolin and is the lead vocalist. The group has won the Instrumental...
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Robin and Linda Williams
Robin and Linda Williams are a husband-and-wife singer-songwriter folk music duo from Virginia. They began their musical association in Nashville, TN in 1971, performing in local clubs.
The Williamses first appeared on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie...
Aubrey Haynie
Aubrey Haynie (born on March 27, 1974) is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle and mandolin. In his career, he has recorded three studio albums for the Sugar Hill Records label, all three of which contained mostly songs that he wrote...
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- Mar 27, 1974 (age 35 years)
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The Greencards
The Greencards are a progressive bluegrass band that formed in Austin, Texas, and are currently based in Nashville, Tennessee. The band was founded in 2003 in Texas by Eamon McLoughlin, an Englishman, and Australians Kym Warner and Carol Young. The...
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Guy Clark
Guy Clark (born 6 November 1941) is an American country music artist. In his career, he has released more than twenty albums, primarily on major labels. He has also written singles for other artists, including Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner and Rodney...
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- Nov 6, 1941 (age 68 years)
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Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell (born August 7, 1950) is a Grammy Award-winning musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music.
He is considered to be part of both the alternative country and the mainstream country music camps. He...
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- Aug 7, 1950 (age 59 years)
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The Gourds
The Gourds are an American alternative country band that formed in Austin, Texas during the summer of 1994.
Primarily evolving from the Picket Line Coyotes and the Grackles, the Gourds original line-up consisted of Kevin Russell (vocals, guitar,...
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Ricky Skaggs
For the punk rock musician, see Ricky Scaggs.
Richard Lee "Ricky" Skaggs (born July 18, 1954, in Cordell, Kentucky) is a country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He primarily plays mandolin; however, he also plays fiddle,...
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- Jul 18, 1954 (age 55 years)
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Sam Bush
Sam Bush (b. April 13, 1952 in Bowling Green, Kentucky) is an American bluegrass mandolin player considered an originator of the Newgrass style.
Sam Bush was exposed to country and bluegrass music at an early age through his father Charlie's record...
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- Apr 13, 1952 (age 57 years)
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Tom Paxton
Thomas Richard Paxton (born October 31, 1937) is an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years. In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
His songs have...
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- Oct 31, 1937 (age 72 years)
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Mike Cross
For the Louisiana politician, see Mike Cross (Louisiana politician).
Mike Cross (born 1946 in Maryville, Tennessee) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. His music blends rock, country, pop and folk. Signed to prominent label Sugar Hill ...
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- 1946 (age 64 years)
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Mac Wiseman
Malcolm B. Wiseman (born May 23, 1925), better known as Mac Wiseman, is a bluegrass singer, nicknamed The Voice with a Heart. The bearded singer is one of the cult figures of bluegrass.
Born in Crimora, Virginia, he studied at the Shenandoah...
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- May 23, 1925 (age 84 years)
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Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien (b. March 16, 1954 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is a Grammy Award-winning American country and bluegrass musician. In addition to singing, he plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki and mandocello. To date, he has released more than ten...
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- Mar 16, 1954 (age 55 years)
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Dan Crary
Dan Crary (aka Deacon Dan Crary) (born September 29, 1939 in Kansas City, Kansas) is an American bluegrass guitarist.
He helped re-establish flatpicked guitar as a prominent soloing bluegrass instrument. Crary is an innovator of the flatpicking...
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- Sep 29, 1939 (age 70 years)
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Peter Rowan
Peter Rowan (b. July 4, 1942, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American bluegrass musician and composer. Rowan plays guitar and mandolin, yodels and sings.
From an early age, Rowan had an interest in music and eventually learned to play the guitar. At...
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- Jul 4, 1942 (age 67 years)
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Sean Watkins
Sean Charles Watkins (born February 18, 1977) is a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He is a member of the contemporary folk band Nickel Creek, the duo Fiction Family and the supergroup Works Progress Administration.
Sean Watkins began his...
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- Feb 18, 1977 (age 32 years)
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Albert Lee
For the city in Minnesota, see Albert Lea, Minnesota
Albert Lee, born 21 December 1943 in Leominster, Herefordshire England is a Grammy Award-winning English guitarist known for his finger-style and hybrid picking technique.
He grew up in Blackheath...
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- 1943 (age 67 years)
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Bryan Sutton
Bryan Sutton is an American musician. Primarily known as a virtuoso flatpicked acoustic guitar player, Sutton also plays many other instruments including mandolin, banjo, and electric guitar.
Sutton first came to prominence as part of Ricky Skaggs'...
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The Duhks
The Duhks is a band from Winnipeg, Canada.
The five members play a blend of Canadian soul, gospel, North American folk, Brazilian samba, old time country string band, zydeco, and Irish dance music. Four of them hail from Winnipeg, Manitoba and the...
Acoustic Syndicate
Acoustic Syndicate is a rock/folk/bluegrass band from North Carolina formed in 1992. They have toured nationally in the US, including appearances at Farm Aid and the Bonnaroo festival. Their sound is characterized by three-part vocal harmony and...
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Carl Jackson
Carl Jackson (born September 18, 1953 in Louisville, Mississippi) is an American country and bluegrass musician. Jackson's first Grammy was awarded in 1992 for his duet album with John Starling titled "Spring Training." In 2003 Jackson produced the...
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- Sep 18, 1953 (age 56 years)
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Infamous Stringdusters
The Infamous Stringdusters are a bluegrass band. The band emerged in 2007 with the acclaimed album, Fork in the Road on Sugar Hill Records. The various members of the band all have résumés that include numerous notables that they've worked with in...
Punch Brothers
Punch Brothers are a bluegrass band consisting of Chris Thile (mandolin), Gabe Witcher (fiddle/violin), Noam Pikelny (banjo), Chris Eldridge (guitar), and Paul Kowert (bass). Bryan Sutton has also filled in on guitar when necessary. Their style has...
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Larry Cordle
Larry Cordle was born in eastern Kentucky and is a twice Grammy-nominated, CMA and IBMA award-winning American country and bluegrass singer-songwriter. Cordle is most famous for his song "Murder on Music Row", which was recorded by George Strait and...
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Herb Pedersen
Herb Pedersen (born April 27, 1944 in Berkeley, California) is an American musician, guitarist, banjo player, and singer-songwriter who has played a variety of musical styles over the past forty years including Country, Bluegrass, Progressive...
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- Apr 27, 1944 (age 65 years)
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Joey & Rory
Joey + Rory is an American country music duo composed of Rory Lee Feek and Joey Martin Feek, who are husband and wife. Joey is the duo's lead vocalist, while Rory sings background vocals and plays guitar. The duo was the third-place finalist on CMT...
Sarah Borges
Sarah Borges is a rock and roll musician from Taunton, Massachusetts, signed to Sugar Hill Records. Her music is described as "walking that fine line between punk and country".
Borges grew up in Taunton, a city south of Boston in the third...
