Kenny Smith

The current lineup also includes Jesse Smathers on guitar and vocals, Adam Miller on mandolin and vocals, Mike Hartgrove on fiddle, and Cameron Keller on bass.

Over the years, the Lonesome River Band has been home to a remarkable list of musicians, including Dan Tominski, Ronnie Bowman, Don Rigsby, Kenny Smith, and Ricky Simpkins, and the group has remained influential through several generations of bluegrass players.

This week, they make the highest debut on the countdown, entering at number seven.

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McGann almost had like a hit list of like techniques or things that you should do to kind of – fill that space or at least as a flat picker these are the skills that we hone in on to like fill that space one of them was cross picking he was like just cross pick through that whole thing treat it like a like a level two like what you would do just after learning the Carter style version of the tune you know uh uh uh yeah You know, something more like that.

And then all of a sudden we're in like, you know, we're in like David Greer land or Kenny Smith land.

You know what I mean? Where those guys play that like tasteful kind of, you're like the melody's there, but they're not playing the Dukka Dukka version of the melody.

You know, they're doing something else.

And it's like, but what we were learning is like kind of the modern, um, what do I want to say, like format or like formula for like the bluegrass sound right now, right? In that way that you're describing, you're learning to manipulate those pieces in real time.

And I think for me, because I, man, holy crap, when I was in undergrad and graduate school, it was all Tony all the time.

That was like all my, I was transcribing a bunch of David Greer and Kenny Smith.

You know what I mean? And that wasn't coming out of my playing because I think of what you're talking about.