Like so many other bluegrass musicians written about in this column, it was The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” LP that served as Allsopp’s gateway into the progressive bluegrass world, which opened up the door to a world of bluegrass and its subsequent offshoots of hip acoustic music. It was the shop of banjo player Bruce Allsopp, whose tenure around the local and regional musical scene dates back to the 1980s and the influential new and jam-grass scene of Boulder. It wasn’t so typical, however, as most homes don’t also double as one of the premier music shops in the region, a place established musicians in Colorado’s roots music scene as well as local up-and-comers went to for instruments and instrument repair. Longtime locals who have traveled East Animas Road (County Road 250) will remember the sign that read “Canyon Music” hanging roadside by a driveway leading up to a typical homestead.
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