Bluegrass and jam bands kind of go together, thanks to the influences and influential shadow of Jerry Garcia and the Dead, and cool mountain retreats such as the annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival. String Cheese Incident guitarist Bill Nershi is no stranger to bluegrass pickin, having lived in Telluride for many a year during the small Colorado mountain towns early festival days. He learned his first bluegrass licks from a friend and mandolin player, and they performed around the now trendy ski resort long before it was trendy.

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