True Blue is the most exciting traditional bluegrass band to come out of California in years. Powered by the driving vocals and guitar of Del Williams, the band's sound is fresh, yet steeped in the soul of Bill Monroe and the rhythmic feel of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. Del joined his father in the Vern Williams Band after graduating from high school in Stockton, California, in the mid-1970s. The band toured the West Coast for 15 years, recording three influential albums, including two with country and bluegrass legend Rose Maddox. Ed Neff, premier fiddler and mandolinist, and another alumnus of the Vern Williams Band, adds his fiery solo playing as well as an inimitable sense of rhythm and timing. Rounding out the group are Avram Siegel, one of the most original banjo players to emerge from the Bay Area bluegrass scene, and acoustic bassist, Allison Fisher, whose energy and solid sense of time is the perfect anchor to the band's overall feel and drive.