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Skaggs; dobro master Jerry Douglas; Bill Emerson, now leader of the U.S. Navy’s Country Current; Eddy Adcock, and Jimmy Gaudreau. They all honed styles and skills as Country Gentlemen.
“But Charlie’s the man,” said Len Holsclaw, the band's manager and an accomplished bluegrass picker in his own right. After crisscrossing the country for three decades with stops at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Grand Ole Opry, the Kennedy Center, and tours of Europe and Japan, “Charlie doesn’t like being on the road for a long time at a stretch any more. Two weeks and he gets a little crazy,” Mr. Holsclaw laughed.
“They’re all crazy anyway! You have to be to pick this life,” he said, pointing out that the top bluegrass groups in America make about as much as a rock band playing the Holiday Inn circuit. “But until Charlie Waller can’t do it any more - and I doubt that day will ever come - the Country Gentlemen will keep on playing bluegrass.”
Junior only to Charlie, Bill Yates has been a Gent for 18 years. His bass gives a steady virtuosity to the band's sound and his full baritone is the perfect complement to Charlie’s matchless lead. Bill does double duty. A mechanic before he took up the vagabond life of a bluegrass musician, he keeps the band's bus as finely tuned as the instruments, does most of the driving and some of the scheduling, road managing, media interviews, and scores of chores involved in touring.
“It hasn’t been always like this but it has worked into a real good thing. I don't think I’d trade it. If I had to do it all over again. I'd probably do the same thing. It’s been an enjoyable 18 years,” Bill said. “I’ve got a few more wrinkles, gone a few more miles, my hair's a little longer, and I’ve got a few more wild tales.”
Norman Wright is the third Gent. He brings high soaring harmony to lead and tenor and adds excitement and creativity with his mandolin and guitar. The performance in Washington, which is sponsored by the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community, will be a reunion of
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