Terry Baucom

Music lovers will of course know the "Duke of Earl," and Frank Zappa fans would no doubt prefer the "Duke of Prunes," but probably only a heavy bluegrass fan would recognize the "Duke of Drive." This is apparently what fellow musicians like to call banjoist Terry Baucom, who made a name for himself playing in such progressive picking parties as the original Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Boone Creek, and IIIrd Tyme Out. The speed of his playing made the Duke bluegrass royalty. He was also a multi-instrumentalist in the old-time music tradition who would be capable of overdubbi...