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About this video
Country Gentlemen at Mike Seeger's show Grassroots.
About the artists
Known for expanding bluegrass music's stylistic horizons and its audience, The
Country Gentlemen's momentous, decades-long career began as an impromptu
fill-in band for a July 4, 1957, Washington, D.C.-area engagement. Its hallmarks
include distinctive material, exciting high-lead trio harmonies, dynamic
musicianship and humor-laced stage shows.
Periodic personnel changes occurred from the beginning, but the collaboration
having the greatest impact on the genre and setting the style for all who followed
is that of the 1960-64 era, often referred to retrospectively as "The Classic"
Country Gentlemen: co founders Charlie Waller (guitar) and John Duffey
(mandolin) with Eddie Adcock (banjo) and Tom Gray (bass).
This band made many new fans for bluegrass, especially among northeastern,
urban and college audiences. In later years, with other musicians and Waller as
focal point and leader, The Country Gentlemen's popularity continued to expand.
Perennial Country Gentlemen favorites include traditional bluegrass versions of
songs from a diversity of idioms: "Little Bessie," "The Long Black Veil," "Two
Little Boys,""Bringing Mary Home," "The Legend of the Rebel Soldier,"
"Matterhorn" and "Fox on the Run."