Examiner – Part 2: Unearthing The Dillards’ lost 60’s records and remembering their essential songs

Photography by Henry Diltz / Corbis

The Dillards were the premiere bluegrass group in L.A. during the ’60s. Featuring Dean Webb on mandolin, Mitch Jayne on stand-up bass, Doug Dillard on banjo, and his younger brother Rodney on guitar/lead vocals, the band confounded audiences and critics alike when they first arrived in California in November 1962.