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| Bassist Dennis Crouch: Where to begin? |
| Some musicians make a living playing music. Dennis Crouch lives to play his music. And his music is almost every kind of music that fills the air breezing over back porches of Bluegrass Country to New York’s town hall. |
| When John Carter Cash assembled the band for Johnny Cash’s last recordings, he asked for Dennis Crouch. So, too, did June Carter Cash for her album Wildwood Flower, Randy Travis, Jerry Reed, and Loretta Lynn, not to speak of a dozen or so other icons of country music. Not bad company for a kid from Strawberry, Arkansas, who just wanted to play bass. |
| Bluegrass? Well , Alison Krauss is in the Crouch corner (Raising Sand & Hundred Miles or more: a Collection) Ralph Stanley, Tim O’Brien, Jim Lauderdale, Nashville Bluegrass Band, Bryan Sutton, Russ Barenberg, Aubrey Haynie, and others. |
| Then there’s the wider world. A talent like Dennis Crouch’s cannot be contained in a jar on the shelf marked “One Dimensional.” |
| Rock? Well, only if you count Elvis Costello, Steve Earle, Sting, T-Bone Burnett, John Mellencamp, and Robert Plant ( Raising Sand), to name a few among the nearly dozen stellar rockers with whom he has recorded. |
| Jazz/Swing? Sure, and that brings us back full circle. In 1998 Crouch co-founded the Time Jumpers, a group as at home in jazz as in knee-high traditional country and Western swing. He’s also recorded with the likes of Duke Heitger, Evan Christopher, David Hungate and April Barrows, Jerry Krahn and others. |
| By the way, if you’re a movie-goer, you’ve probably heard Crouch unawares on a number of soundtracks, as in Walk the Line, Cold mountain, Don’t Come Knockin’, Mad Money, Songcatcher, and Across the Universe. |
| Dennis, his wife, children, dogs and cats abide near Nashville, Tennessee, where he is, no doubt, preparing for yet another tour or recording date with some giant of jazz or country or bluegrass or rock. |
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