Bobby Osborne and Jesse McReynolds were members of the first class of bluegrass. Says contemporary picker Ronnie McCoury: 'This is the end of that generation.'
Hailing from rural Southwestern Virginia, the McReynolds boys began performing together in the late 1940s, only to sign with Capitol Records in 1952. What resulted were several signature numbers throughout the years, including “Cotton Mill Man,” “Diesel on My Tail,” and “The Ballad of Thunder Road.”
“Bobby was an electric guitar player first. But then he heard Ernest Tubb and those guys, and that’s what got him into [bluegrass and country music],” McCoury says. “And [Bobby] started putting that kind of [guitar] playing onto the mandolin. He was also a fiddle player, so was Jesse, and they adapted a lot of fiddle tunes and fiddle notes to the mandolin — more so than Bill Monroe.”“Bobby played almost every one of the melody fiddle notes.
“A guy like me who came along so many years later, there were so many people ahead of me that were playing [bluegrass], and that’s who you have to learn from,” McCoury says. “But guys like Jesse and Bobby, they didn’t have many people to learn from, especially on the mandolin. They were adapting the music they heard to the mandolin — they knew they had to be different.”
Bobby Osborne and Jesse McReynolds were also military veterans of the Korean War in the early 1950s. While stationed in Korea, McReynolds joined up with Charlie Louvin of the Louvin Brothers, and the duo played for the troops under the moniker the Dusty Roads Boys. Osborne was awarded the distinguished Purple Heart for wounds sustained in combat.
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