Alan Mastin
Musician · d. 2010
Best known for
Bass
Alan Mastin played upright bass with Big Country Bluegrass for some twenty-two years, the length of tenure that makes a sideman part of a band’s identity rather than a passenger in it.
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- He was from southwest Virginia, in the Grayson and Carroll County country that has produced more traditional bands than anywhere else in the state.
- He held the bass chair from the late 1980s until 2010 and appears on the majority of the band’s recordings across that span.
- Big Country Bluegrass plays deliberately old material in an old style, and the bass part is plain, steady and entirely unshowy by design.
- He died in May 2010 in a car accident while driving home from a show.
- In this catalog he appears on nine Big Country Bluegrass recordings.
