The Bluegrass Album Band was an American bluegrass 'supergroup' founded by Tony Rice and J.D. Crowe in 1980 and featuring such luminaries as Todd Phillips, Bobby Hicks and Jerry Douglas. Originally with no intention to build a permanent group, the main reason for the collaboration was to record a solo album for Tony Rice. They found that this cooperation could work and the result was an album called The Bluegrass Album, released in 1981, with five more volumes of music to follow. Read more on Last.fm