Richard Bailey
Richard Bailey is a bluegrass banjoist born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, who began playing the instrument in 1973. He spent nine years performing with The Tennessee Gentlemen before relocating to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1987 where he spent 14 years performing in The Cluster Pluckers. In 2005, Bailey co-founded The SteelDrivers. He’s done session work for Al Green, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, and Jim Lauderdale. With The SteelDrivers, Bailey won the 2009 International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Emerging Artist of the Year award and the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album for The Muscle Shoals Recordings.
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- No. 30 August 2002