Artist: Del McCoury Band
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #63 May-June 2006
Alan Jackson / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / Del McCoury Band
There’s a joyful noise in the air, a music of spiritual uplift that is undeniable and, to these ears, irresistible. Whatever the reason for the glut of Christian albums by secular artists in recent release, the most inspired and inspirational of this music could make the spine of an atheist tingle and cause an agnostic [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #55 Jan-Feb 2005
Del McCoury Band – Egg (Albany, NY)
It was a bluegrass weekend in Albany, one that brought King Wilkie, Eddie & Martha Adcock and Frank Wakefield close to town. But even those who’d had their fill of flashy picking and high harmonies couldn’t resist a Sunday night bill that boasted both the Gibson Brothers and the Del McCoury Band. The Gibsons hail [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #52 July-Aug 2004
Del McCoury Band / Vince Gill / Patty Loveless / Rebecca Lynn Howard – Grand Ole Opry American Road Show – York Expo Fairgrounds (York, PA)
When Del McCoury introduced his band, he pointed out that his two sons — mandolinist Ronnie and banjoist Rob — had been born a quarter-mile away at the York Hospital. Del then said hello to a dozen siblings and in-laws in the audience, making it clear this was no ordinary show for the quintet; this [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #47 Sept-Oct 2003
Del McCoury Band – It’s Just The Night
As the reigning family in a field where tradition is a watchword and experimentation is regarded with at least a little suspicion, there’s not much pressure on the Del McCoury Band to reinvent itself, and so it’s not much of a surprise that their new album exhibits no sharp change in musical direction. Instead, It’s [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #34 July-Aug 2001
Del McCoury Band – Me And The Boys
The same tension between tradition and innovation that has long played out in mainstream country music is fiercely fought in the smaller, more doctrinaire world of bluegrass. Having led inarguably the best traditional bluegrass band in the world for most of a decade, Del McCoury is far too wise a man to embrace much change. [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #20 March-April 1999
Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band – Bring the Family
“The old write memoirs, the young do resumés. In midlife we keep a kind of diary that always begins with a discussion of the weather. The present is where we live, equidistant from our birth and death.…We see our history and future clearly. We sleep well, dream in all tenses, wake ready and able.” – [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #13 Jan-Feb 1998
Del McCoury Band – Bill’s Music Shop & Pickin’ Parlor (Columbia, SC)
The Del McCoury Band is often cited as a shining example of all that’s right in the world of bluegrass today, and after this long, late-afternoon show, it’s easy to understand why. The venue, Bill’s Music Shop, is hallowed ground for Carolina pickers; although the wide-slung stage is framed by a mural of burnt orange [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #6 Nov-Dec 1996
Del McCoury Band – The Cold Hard Facts
The father of bluegrass may have recently passed away, but the high-lonesome bluesiness of Bill Monroe can still be found in the music of the Del McCoury Band. Their recent string of albums for Rounder are perhaps the finest examples of traditional bluegrass in the ’90s, and their latest album, titled The Cold Hard Facts, [...]
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