Tempus Fugits Comparo

Here's Tony Rice and one of his bands (I can't keep track!) doing a Gordon Lightfoot tune. Featured is Jerry Douglas, the hardest working band/solo/session Dobro picker ever, for good reason!

Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Wyatt Rice, & Mark Schatz

Thanks to BluegrassLibrary.

Let it simmer for about 30 years and try it again. Still Tony and Jerry, but add fiddle virtuoso and all around pretty girl singer Alison Krauss and a little more modern recording equipment and this is what you get:

Thanks to WillisMcGillicutty.

Like you and me and everything else in this world that means anything, music only gets better with age,