RIP bluegrass pioneer Jesse McReynolds, dead at 94. He was a superb musician, with a singular mandolin style.

[basquebromance]

For most of his career, he performed with his guitarist brother Jim McReynolds as "Jim and Jesse and the Virginia Boys." find his stuff on spotify or youtube!

 

[DudleySmith]

He was pretty good.

I bet a lot of people don't know Chris Stapleton also had a bluegrass band. Bluegrass is big out here, has been for a long time, but it mostly goes under the radar in entertainment media.

 

[Dekster]

Blue Grass is really the red-headed step-child of black music. When a band act did it, they called it hillbilly music. When a black artist did it, well it was called something different.

Anyway RIP mandolin guy.