Influential Bluegrass musician J.D. Crowe has died

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Grammy-winning bluegrass instrumentalist J.D. Crowe, whose influential vocation spanned much than 50 years, has died. He was 84.

His son, David, confirmed the decease connected Saturday to The Associated Press.

“We conscionable privation to convey everyone for their thoughts and prayers during this hard time. As large of a instrumentalist arsenic dada was, helium was adjacent amended husband, begetter and friend,” David said.

Crowe died Friday of undisclosed causes, the household earlier a nnounced via Facebook.

Born James Dee Crowe successful 1937, his vocation included stints with Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys, Mac Wiseman and his ain band, the Kentucky Mountain Boys, which aboriginal became the New South.

According to the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum, his way was acceptable successful 1949 when, astatine the property of 12, helium heard Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys play astatine a barn creation successful Lexington.

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“Crowe was an innovator connected the banjo and influenced countless musicians with his method and style," work a station connected the website of the Owensboro, Kentucky-based hall, wherever Crowe was inducted successful 2003.

Social media tributes poured successful from the euphony world.

“He was an implicit legend," eclectic bluegrass guitarist Billy Strings wrote connected Twitter. “He volition beryllium remembered arsenic 1 of the top to ever play bluegrass music. He had tone, sensation and TIMING similar nary other."

Crowe won a Grammy grant successful 1983 for champion state instrumental show for his opus “Fireball."

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