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The John Cowan Band

The John Cowan Band

The bluegrass blue-eyed soul man

by James M. Manheim

posted 6/1/2006

The last time I heard John Cowan live was in 1988, at the last Ann Arbor concert of the New Grass Revival, of which he was the lead singer. It was just before the band broke up, and its supremely talented individual performers — Cowan, banjoist Bela Fleck, and mandolinist Sam Bush — were already heading their separate ways creatively. Yet there was

 
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