The Dixie Bluegrass Boys

The Dixie Bluegrass Boys trace their band’s origins to 1960, when 17-year-old Curtis Blackwell and two other young men in Toccoa, Georgia, won a radio talent contest. Brothers Curtis and Haskell Blackwell and their friend Junior Crowe got a chance to perform at the Grand Ole Opry. After reorganizing, with new artists on some instruments, Curtis Blackwell and the Dixie Bluegrass Boys resumed touring and recording, and were regulars on the bluegrass circuit throughout the 1980s and ’90s. Fifty years later, and now with a home base in Macon County, North Carolina, the Dixie Bluegrass Boys consist of founding members Curtis Blackwell and Sam Cobb, joined by banjo player Charles Wood, fiddler Chuck Nations, and mandolinist Vic Blackwell. Otto, North Carolina, resident Curtis Blackwell is honored in the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame.