Two legends of distinctively American styles of music hooked up for the first time a few years back, when the Del McCoury Band was invited down to New Orleans to record a couple of tracks with Preservation Hall Jazz Band for their all-star benefit album, which was released in February 2010. With the success of that collaboration, the bands took things a step further and headed into the studio to see if they could find a place where New Orleans-style jazz fused with the high and lonesome sounds of bluegrass.
While on paper these two genres may seem worlds apart, the unique combination worked and worked quite well, as earlier this month the Del McCoury Band and Preservation Hall Jazz Band released their debut album American Legacies via Del’s McCoury Music label. The 12-track record, which features a mix of covers and originals, is steeped in old-timey sounds that blend ragtime, dixieland, gospel as well as a healthy dose of string band picking.
Let’s check out this promo video that features Del and Ronnie McCoury as well as Ben Jaffe talking about the making of the record…
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The Del McCoury Band and Preservation Hall Jazz Band will play a select number of dates together including appearances at DelFest and Bonnaroo X.
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Can’t wait to catch this live at Delfest this year!