J.D. Crowe & The New South is a bluegrass band formed in 1971 by banjo player J. D. Crowe (born James Dee Crowe on August 27, 1937; died December 24, 2021). Crowe began playing the banjo early on and was offered a job with Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys in mid 1950s. He cut his first recordings with Jimmy Martin on December 1, 1956 and his last on August 17, 1960, recording a total of 33 songs on Decca Records. In the late 1960s, Crowe formed the Kentucky Mountain Boys, principally performing in the Lexington, Kentucky region. Read more on Last.fm