Artist description Hill Country Express performs contemporary and traditional Bluegrass styles, featuring tight three and four part vocal harmonies.

Music Style Bluegrass, Gospel, Newgrass, Contemporary Country

Musical Influences Flatt and Scruggs, Carter Family, Grampa Jones, Ricky Scaggs, Ralf Stanley, Bill Monroe

Similar Artists Alison Krauss, Ricky Scaggs, Newgrass Revival, Ralf Stanley, Bill Monroe

Artist History Hill Country Express has been performing in Central Texas since the late 1970's. On August 14, 1982, Hill Country Express opened for the David Grisman Quartet and the Chieftains at the Performing Arts Center at the University of Texas in Austin. The first 11 songs on the "Hill Country Express - Live" CD are a direct copy of the original audiotape fed live from the sound board that night, with no overtracks or effects added.

Group Members Pete Akenhead - vocals, flat-picked guitar * Mike Hobbs - vocals, finger-picked autoharps * Joanna Alves - vocals, bass fiddle * Jamie Akenhead - vocals, flat-picked guitar * Don Prater - banjo, mandolin, finger-picked guitar

Instruments guitars, banjo, mandolin, autoharp, bass fiddle

Albums Hill Country Express - Live

Location Austin, Texas - USA

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