Uncle Earl formed in 2000 with KC Groves on banjo, Kristin Andreassen on bass, Ray Legere on fiddle, and Dirk Powell on mandolin. They took their name from the bluegrass tune "Black-Eyed Susie," which gives you a sense of where they were coming from musically. Their first album was "She Waits for Night."
They put out records like "The Long Way Around" and "Waterloo, Tennessee." You can hear their approach on songs like "Buonaparte," "How Long," and "Ida Red", traditional bluegrass instrumentation with their own arrangements and some original material mixed in.
In 2007, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans where they were based, and they moved to Nashville afterward. They kept recording and playing shows from there.
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