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 ...

When Del McCoury needs a new song, he doesn't enlist a cohort of co-writers or entrust one of Music Row's famed publishing houses. He goes to the mailbox. Songwriters — from Canada to California and, ...

Bluegrass legend Del McCoury will turn 83 years old just days before the release of Almost Proud, The Del McCoury Band's 17th studio album. Due out on Feb. 18, the record will include a collaboration ...

With wondrous humility, Del McCoury connects the dots of his expansive career that lead him back to the great Bill Monroe. The now 83-year-old bluegrass musician, with bountiful awards and honors ...

Del McCoury is the patriarch of the musical McCoury family and has been one of the most respected musicians on the Bluegrass scene for decades. In this session, we explore Del's reflections about Bill ...

McCoury's been prominent in bluegrass since the 1960s, when he performed in Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. His new album, with sons Rob and Ronnie, in an energetic work that also takes a dark turn.

When Jason Carter was growing up in nearby Lloyd, Kentucky, he was well aware at an early age of the many musicians who achieved fame and acclaim who were from his part of the world. From the window ...

Del McCoury is a rock star. Bluegrass, like jazz, exists on the periphery of popular music. It possesses all of the elements that make popular music popular, melody, harmony, rhythm, beat, time, and ...