The Nashville Bluegrass Band is an American bluegrass music ensemble founded in 1984.
6-621: The group's members first played together in 1984 as a backing band for Vernon Oxford and Minnie Pearl ; each of the members was an established musician from the Nashville bluegrass community. They signed to Rounder Records and recorded their Béla Fleck -produced debut, My Native Home , in 1985. Incorporating elements of black gospel and spirituals , then a rarity in bluegrass, they became critical and popular successes both in America and abroad. The group toured in some 20 countries and were
12-531: A Song ; none of them charted, and he was soon dropped from RCA. His career saw a resurgence in Britain, where he was first rediscovered in the middle of the 1970s. A best-of was issued there in 1974, and RCA signed him again to tour there. His hit singles "Shadows of My Mind", "Redneck (The Redneck National Anthem)", and "A Good Old Fashioned Saturday Night Honky Tonk Barroom Brawl" (U.S. Country No. 55, 1977) reinvigorated his career in America; in Britain, he
18-548: The first bluegrass band to ever play in China . The group continued to record for Rounder and Sugar Hill into the 1990s; two of the albums, 1993's Waitin' for the Hard Times to Go and 1995's Unleashed , won Grammy Awards for Best Bluegrass Album . Other albums were nominated for Grammys in the same category in 1988, 1990, 1991, 1998, and 2004. After the departure of bassist Gene Libbea and mandolinist Roland White in 1998,
24-608: The group went on a brief hiatus, but after vocalist Pat Enright sang as one of the Soggy Bottom Boys from O Brother, Where Art Thou? , the group's career had a revival. They played as the backing group for many performers on the Down from the Mountain tour and album, and toured again on their own in the 2000s. Current members Past members Vernon Oxford Vernon Oxford (June 8, 1941 – August 18, 2023)
30-734: Was an American country music singer and guitarist. He was born in Rogers, Arkansas , United States. Oxford was raised in Wichita, Kansas , United States, where his father played old-time fiddle . He began playing professionally in Utah in 1960, mostly playing in the Kansas area in the early 1960s, then relocated to Nashville in 1964. In 1965, he met Harlan Howard , who got him signed to RCA Victor and helped him find material to record. He then released seven singles and one LP, Woman Let Me Sing You
36-482: Was well known for "I've Got to Get Peter Off Your Mind" and "Field of Flowers". He also recorded a comedy duet with Jim Ed Brown , "Mowing The Lawn". After a break of several years, he began a career as a gospel singer in 1981. Mostly as an independent artist, Oxford continued to record new material. Oxford's classic recordings have been reissued by numerous labels, including a comprehensive box set from Bear Family Records , and some compilations from Westside UK and
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