Dan Paisley and the Southern Grass

Dan Paisley and the Southern Grass

Dan Paisley and the Southern Grass carry on the family tradition of over 35 years playing bluegrass music on the next edition of Jubilee. The program, taped at the River of Music Party in Owensboro last summer, airs Wednesday, May 21 at 8/7 p.m. CT on KET1 and Saturday, May 24 at 11/10 p.m. CT on KET2.

Members of the Paisley and Lundy families, hailing from the mountains of southwest Virginia, have long been creating a distinctive brand of bluegrass, combining impeccable instrumental work with powerful vocal harmonies. In the late 1960s, Bob Paisley teamed up with banjo player Ted Lundy to form the Southern Mountain Boys. Dan Paisley joined his dad’s group in 1971 at the age of 15 and has developed into one of the most expressive vocalists in bluegrass music. When Bob Paisley died in 2004, Dan took over the group, renamed it the Southern Grass and continued the family tradition.

Paisley says, “Our songs capture the spirit of traditional bluegrass. They represent the type of music that our fathers played, recorded and passed on to us.”

Members of the Southern Grass are T.J. Lundy, Don Eldreth Jr., Dan Paisley, Michael Paisley and Bob Lundy. Their newest CD is titled The Tradition Continues.

Jubilee is a KET production, distributed to public television stations nationwide. The series is directed by Nick Helton and produced by Duncan Hart. Nancy Carpenter is executive producer. More information about Jubilee is available at www.ket.org/jubilee.