The Dixie Dregs are a jazz fusion band formed in the 1970s. Their mostly instrumental music fuses jazz, southern rock, bluegrass and classical forms in an often unique, virtuosic style. History The Dixie Dregs evolved from an Augusta, Georgia band called the Dixie Grits featuring Steve Morse, Frank Brittingham, Johnny Carr and Andy West in the late 1960s. Carr was later replaced by keyboardist Mark Parrish. Morse, West, Parrish, Brittingham and Frayer performed briefly as a quintet, continuing to call themselves Dixie Grits. After Frank Brittingham left in 1972, Morse, West, Parrish, and Frayer remained: thus, the "Dregs" of the "Dixie Grits". In 1973, Steve Morse (guitar), Andy West (bass), Allen Sloan (violin) and Bart Yarnal (drums) met while students at the University of Miami's School of Music to play as Rock Ensemble II. West also attended Georgia State University for a year while studying cello and music theory & composition alo

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