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Delano Floyd McCoury (born February 1, 1939) is an American bluegrass musician. As leader of the Del McCoury Band, he plays guitar and sings lead vocals along with his two sons, Ronnie McCoury and Rob McCoury, who play mandolin and banjo respectively.
Del McCoury is the most awarded artist in Bluegrass history including 9 IBMA Entertainer of the Year Awards. He is also very proud to be a National Heritage Fellow, a member of the Grand Ole Opry, and a member of the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame.
Del McCoury Band. Ronnie McCoury, Jason Carter, Robbie McCoury, Del McCoury, and Alan Bartram performing at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, San Francisco, California in 2005. The Del McCoury Band is a Grammy award -winning American bluegrass band.
From the nascent sound of bluegrass that charmed hardscrabble hillbilly honkytonks, rural schoolhouse stages, and the crowning glory of the Grand Ole Opry to the present-day culture-buzz of viral videos and digital streams, Del is the living link.
From classics that he first sang back in the late 1950s to “Nothin’ Special” and “Never Grow Up Boy” from the Grammy-winning, The Company We Keep, Celebrating 50 Years of Del McCoury is a sweeping view of Del’s musical journey that confounds the conventional wisdom that says remakes are necessarily inferior to first recordings-and ...
Even among the pantheon of music’s finest artists, Del McCoury stands alone. From the nascent sound of bluegrass that charmed hardscrabble hillbilly honkytonks, rural schoolhouse stages, and...
BMI’s database credits Del McCoury with 38 published compositions, co-compositions, and arrangements. A few of his original songs and collaborations are: “Beauty of My Dreams”. “Blue Piece of Paper: “I Feel the Blues Movin’ In”. “Rain Please Go Away”.
