Jesse McReynolds

With his older brother, Jim McReynolds, mandolin and fiddle player Jesse McReynolds was part of the longstanding bluegrass duo Jim & Jesse, who formed just after World War II and performed until Jim McReynolds' death on December 31, 2002. After fashioning a posthumous Jim & Jesse album, 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered (released in April 2003 by Pinecastle Records), Jesse launched a solo career at the age of 73. Actually, he had issued his first solo album, Me and My Fiddle, in 1968. But his formal debut came with New Horizons, released in April 2004, and Bending the Rules followed...