With his older brother, Jim McReynolds, mandolin and fiddle player Jesse McReynolds was part of the longstanding bluegrass duo Jim & Jesse, who formed just after World War II and performed until Jim McReynolds' death on December 31, 2002. After fashioning a posthumous Jim & Jesse album, 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered (released in April 2003 by Pinecastle Records), Jesse launched a solo career at the age of 73. Actually, he had issued his first solo album, Me and My Fiddle, in 1968. But his formal debut came with New Horizons, released in April 2004, and Bending the Rules followed in November. Next, McReynolds paired with Charlie Whitstein for A Tribute to Brother Duets (June 2005). Dixie Road appeared in 2007, and in October 2010, McReynolds "& Friends" (the friends being David Nelson of New Riders of the Purple Sage fame and Stu Allen of the Jerry Garcia Band) delivered Songs of the Grateful Dead on Woodstock Records, for which McReynolds penned a new song, "Day by Day," with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. Jesse McReynolds died on June 23, 2023, in Gallatin, Tennessee; he was 93 years of age. ~ William Ruhlmann