No cause of death was given. Born James Dee Crowe in 1937, his career
spanned more than 50 years and included stints with Jimmy Martin’s Sunny
Mountain Boys, Mac Wiseman and his own band, the Kentucky Mountain
Boys, which later became the New South. According to the Bluegrass Music
Hall of Fame and Museum, his path was set in 1949 when, at the age of
12, he heard Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys play
at a barn dance in Lexington.
