The Yolo County Breakdown

Bluegrass on the precipice of the Summer solstice! Tracks from David Grier, Sierra Hull, Larry Sparks, Norman Blake and many more. Enjoy Rocky's picks for the week!

Rocky kicks off another week of music with the Boxcars. Then he weaves his way through cuts from the Grascals, John Hiatt, and the Bluegrass Album Band before finally saying farewell with Sean Watkins. Enough good bluegrass to make your heart keep beating!

Rocky is joined by a virtuoso mandolin master - Sierra Hull. Sierra is the only female winner of the IBMA Mandolin Player of the Year Award in the award's history, and she has won it a whopping six times! Her new album, A Tip Toe High Wire, is out now. She joins Rocky to talk about this album and her career that launched with her first album dropping when she was ten years old!

Rocky is joined by a very special guest - the one and only Flux himself - Jerry Douglas. They celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of the most important bluegrass recordings of all time - the J.D. Crowe and the New South album better known as Rounder 044. Jerry is one of only 2 surviving members of the band that created a new standard of excellence in bluegrass when they released this album back in 1975. In the 50 years since, Jerry has cemented his place in music history as the greatest dobro player of all time. He has won 16 Grammy Awards and appeared on thousands of recordings in a career that is unmatched by any other resophonic guitar player on planet Earth. Jerry reminisces on the legendary New South recording sessions, playing alongside Tony Rice, Ricky Skaggs, Bobby Slone and J.D. Crowe.