Pat Enright
Best known for
Guitar
Pat Enright is the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Nashville Bluegrass Band, the four-decade Sugar Hill / Rounder act whose tight a cappella gospel and traditional repertoire made them one of the most decorated groups in IBMA history. He's also one of the Soggy Bottom Boys, the trio whose work on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack reached a multi-platinum mainstream audience.
- Born April 22, 1945 in Huntington, Indiana; took up guitar in high school and gravitated to bluegrass through 1960s folk-revival recordings.
- Played the early-1970s San Francisco Bay Area scene with the Tonto Basin Boys and Rick Shubb's Hired Hands; co-founded Phantoms of the Opry with Laurie Lewis in the mid-1970s before moving to Nashville.
- Joined Tasty Licks in Boston in the late 1970s alongside Béla Fleck, Mark Schatz, and Jack Tottle; recorded two Rounder albums with the band before forming the Dreadful Snakes back in Nashville in 1983.
- Co-founded the Nashville Bluegrass Band in 1984 with Alan O'Bryant (banjo), Mike Compton (mandolin), Mark Hembree (bass), and Blake Williams (fiddle); has fronted the band continuously across more than a dozen Rounder and Sugar Hill albums and multiple lineup changes.
- NBB won the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album twice: Waitin' for the Hard Times to Go (1994 ceremony) and Unleashed (1996 ceremony).
- NBB won the IBMA Vocal Group of the Year award four straight years (1990–1993); Enright also took home IBMA Album of the Year and Recorded Event of the Year in 1997 for the Bill Monroe tribute True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe (Sugar Hill).
- One of the three Soggy Bottom Boys (with Dan Tyminski and Harley Allen) on the 2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack — the multi-platinum album that won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2002.
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The Nashville Bluegrass BandPlayed on recordings with The Nashville Bluegrass Band
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The Dreadful SnakesPlayed on recordings with The Dreadful Snakes
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David GrismanPlayed on recordings with David Grisman
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Hazel DickensPlayed on recordings with Hazel Dickens
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Peter Rowan and the Nashville Bluegrass BandPlayed on recordings with Peter Rowan and the Nashville Bluegrass Band
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Pat EnrightPlayed on recording with Pat Enright
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Stuart DuncanPlayed on recording with Stuart Duncan
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The Nitty Gritty Dirt BandPlayed on recording with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
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The Soggy Bottom BoysPlayed on recording with The Soggy Bottom Boys
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Tyler GrantPlayed on recording with Tyler Grant