Bobby Lundy
Musician · Newark, Delaware
Best known for
Bass
Banjo
Harmony Vocals
Bobby Lundy is a second-generation mid-Atlantic bluegrass musician, the son of banjo man Ted Lundy, who today anchors Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass on bass and harmony vocals. A multi-instrumentalist who came up on the banjo before making the upright his signature, he is a keeper of one of the hardest-driving traditional bluegrass lineages in the Delaware Valley.
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- His father, Ted Lundy (1937–1980), was a Galax, Virginia–bred banjo picker who settled in the Wilmington, Delaware area and co-led Ted Lundy, Bob Paisley & the Southern Mountain Boys, cutting Rounder sides such as Lovesick and Sorrow (1978). Bobby was raised inside that band’s hard-edged, old-school sound.
- He first took up the banjo in his father’s tradition, coming up in the family band alongside his brother, fiddler T.J. Lundy, and Bob Paisley’s son Danny (guitar and lead vocals).
- After Ted Lundy’s death in 1980 the outfit carried on as Bob Paisley & the Southern Grass, and when Bob died in 2004 Danny Paisley took the helm; through every change Bobby and T.J. Lundy stayed on, keeping two founding families at the group’s core.
- Over time he moved from banjo to upright bass, earning a reputation for a distinctive, propulsive bass style while singing harmony behind Paisley’s lead.
- As a member of Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass he shared in the band’s 2009 IBMA Song of the Year for “Don’t Throw Mama’s Flowers Away,” and in high-profile bookings including a 2015 concert at the Library of Congress and the group’s Grand Ole Opry debut on April 5, 2025.
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Bill Harrell and the VirginiansPlayed on recordings with Bill Harrell and the Virginians
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Bob Paisley and the Southern GrassPlayed on recordings with Bob Paisley and the Southern Grass
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Danny Paisley and the Southern GrassPlayed on recording with Danny Paisley and the Southern Grass
