found: The Bluegrass album [SR] c1981 (a.e.)container (J. D. Crowe, banjo)
found: Encyc. of pop. mus., 3rd ed.(Crowe, J.D.; b. James Dee Crowe, Aug. 27, 1937, Lexington, KY; banjoist)
found: Wikipedia, viewed June 25, 2019:under "J. D. Crowe" (James Dee Crowe; born August 27, 1937 in Lexington, Kentucky; American banjo and guitar player and bluegrass band leader; founder of Kentucky Mountain Boys, later renamed J.D. and the New South)
found: Kentucky encyclopedia, ©1992:pages 243-244 ("James Dee Crowe" founded the Kentucky Mountain Boys in 1964. He changed the group's name in 1971 to J. D. Crowe and the New South.)
found: Rolling Stone (online), viewed December 27, 2021:“J. D. Crowe, Bluegrass banjo icon, dead at 84" (J. D. Crowe died Friday [December 24, 2021])