Only one progressive hippie allying with like-minded conspirators, rolling out the New Grass revolution, and then leaving the genre’s torch-bearing band behind as it reached its commercial peak. Only one son of Kentucky finding a light of inspiration from Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys and catching a fire from Bob Marley and The Wailers. “I can unapologetically stand onstage and feel I’m representing those songs well.There was only one prize-winning teenager carrying stones big enough to say thanks, but no thanks to Roy Acuff. Looking back at the last 50 years of playing newgrass, with the elements of jazz improvisation and rock-&-roll, jamming, playing with New Grass Revival, Leon, and Emmylou it’s a culmination of all of that,” says Bush.
“With this band I have now I am free to try anything. His performances are annual highlights of the festival circuit, with Bush’s joyous perennial appearances at the town’s famed bluegrass fest earning him the title, “King of Telluride.”
Punch Brothers, Steep Canyon Rangers, and Greensky Bluegrass are just a few present-day bluegrass vanguards among so many musicians he’s influenced. Or is it outside insider? There is only one Sam Bush.Īmericana Music Association awarded Bush the Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist.
There is only one consensus pick of peers and predecessors, of the traditionalists, the rebels, and the next gen devotees.
There was only one prize-winning teenager carrying stones big enough to say thanks, but no thanks to Roy Acuff.
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