Del McCoury Releasing 5-Disc Box Set to Celebrate 50 Years

st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }  Del McCoury is celebrating 50 years of making music by releasing a 5-disc special edition box set of his classic Bluegrass music. McCoury, who recently turned 70, is releasing Celebrating 50 Years of Del McCoury, which includes more than 30 new recordings of songs from his first 40 years of performing and an additional 18 from the Del McCoury’s Band most essential tracks of the last decade. The set also includes a book of photos from McCoury's career. Songs range from classics that he first sang back in the late 1950s to such originals as “High On A Mountain,” “Are You Teasing Me,” “Dark Hollow,” “Bluest Man In Town,” “Rain And Snow,” “Good Man Like Me" and “Rain Please Go Away,” as well as “Nothin’ Special” and “Never Grow Up Boy.” “Del gives hope to everybody—fifty years is a long time to be playing music in any field,” said Elvis Costello. “But to keep the purity that you need to do this kind of music, and the drive and energy, that takes a special kind of guy.” Celebrating 50 Years of Del McCroury was recorded in a marathon session that lasted only a few days. As befits a living legend, and a lively one at that, he brings a fresh and inspired take to all the tracks, particularly those that have been part of his repertoire since the beginning. “We went through the songs pretty quickly,” said son Ronnie, who plays mandolin. “Take after take, it was just great. Dad sounds better than ever on here. We had a list of songs that the three of us made, with fifteen or twenty songs from each of the decades and the albums that he made before he started owning his own recordings, and he would just pick some things to record on each session—and then we just went in and knocked them out. So they all have a real live feel to them.” McCoury's summer tour schedule includes a much coveted slot at Bonnaroo, one of the nations biggest summer festivals. He will also be hosting the 2nd Annual Delfest in Cumberland, MD, in May.For more information, as well as late-breaking news, visit: www.mccourymusic.com.