I guess I had an old soul at a young age at some point because I got interested in Bill Monroe and Flatt and Scruggs and all that and Ralph Stanley and all the early recordings. It didn't take long until I wanted to find out what it was really all about. I was like five, six, seven, eight years old when my grandpa was introducing me to it, and those were the kinds of bands.of the times. Crowe and the New South, and bands like that when I was first getting into bluegrass.
"The first few years I grew up listening to - it's kind of ironic at this point - Ricky Skaggs and J.
In addition to being the band's founder, lead singer and mandolin player, Simpson, 31, is the primary songwriter, and he points to "Never Been So Blue," a tribute to Bill Monroe as evidence of their traditional roots. As he and his Cadillac Sky band mates await the late January release of their debut CD "Blind Man Walking" on Skaggs Family, Fort Worth native Bryan Simpson hopes the disc will introduce them to new fans as a band well-grounded in bluegrass tradition but with a "Texas twist" all their own.
For all its renown as the home of American musical icons like Bob Wills, Guy Clark, Nanci Griffith and Townes Van Zandt, there have been relatively few top-rank bluegrass bands to come out of the Lone Star State.
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