This month, Trischka released the project dubbed Earl Jam: A Tribute To Earl Scruggs on Down The Road Records to the delight of bluegrass fans worldwide. Names like Vince Gill, Stuart Duncan, Del McCoury, and Darol Anger fill the album liner notes next to those of Molly Tuttle, Billy Strings, Brittany Haas, Dominick Leslie, and Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, creating a cross-generational, genre-spanning band of, let’s face it, a heaping of the best pickers alive today; all in tribute to the pioneer who would’ve been 100 years old this year. Down The Road is a new label formed by original Rounder Records founders Ken Irwin, Marian Leighton Levy and Bill Nowlin.
“Tony Trischka is known as the father of modern bluegrass” – NY Times.
In the height of lockdown in 2020, banjo extraordinaire Tony Trischka received a mysterious package in his mailbox that would significantly change his next few years. Its contents: one USB drive full of rare recordings of Earl Scruggs jamming with John Hartford, mostly taken from private gatherings at Earl’s house during the 80s and 90s.
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