Dan Crary

You know, so I'm thinking of guys like my dad and Doc Watson and kind of everybody in between.

Tony Rice, Norman Blake, Jack Lawrence, David Greer, Dan Crary, George Shuffler.

But I've always thought in the 20 years since that was released, it would be fun to revisit that concept with more of... what I would call sort of my peers, pals, folks that I'd gotten to know over the last 20, 25 years on the bluegrass scene that weren't just these icons and heroes of mine, but still just within that duet format.

I also, over the last... 20 years in a process of transferring some of the music that I'd recorded with some of these people to a hard drive, I discovered that there were songs that I'd forgotten that we had recorded.

Some people I knew for a long time, like the fiddle player Joost van Esch.

When I was like 14 I entered a country and western contest in Rotterdam and I played Your Love is Like a Flower from a bluegrass album band and I played a Dan Crary song on solo guitar.

So I won and I won a trip to London actually, which is really funny.

But he was like the band that organized the contest, and he was in a great Dutch bluegrass band called Four Wheel Drive.

It's like bluegrass guitar.

was a rarity back when i'm lead guitar when i started playing there were a handful of players there was norman blake and doc got you heard a lot of his stuff even though he really wasn't playing any bluegrass but tony clarence had died in 1973 before i started playing and there were a few other players like dan crary who who played in the bluegrass alliance uh this group in kentucky before tony joined the And Tony actually took some of his tunes and some of his stuff that he did.

Dan did a version of Freeborn Man, but he did it in E position, but he did it like Jerry Reid, where you did that, you know, well, I was born in the Southland.

Like that stuff I was doing.

And, you know...

Dan Crary played one of those guitars and eventually Dan – I met Dan.

We heard that there was a party at Byron Berline's house and Kurt and I decided we'd go there.

We met Dan Crary and Byron Berline.

And then Dan came down and we fashioned him a guitar and it started out.

You know, he said, I don't know what all this easy-to-play guitar is.

You

had one of those characters, though, for you, too, and for my world, the bluegrass world.

Byron Berline on fiddle and mandolin.

Dan Crary on guitar.

George Hickman on bass.

And John Hickman is going to be doing Don Reno-tuned.