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Dustin Benson (2)

Dustin Benson was raised in Jasper, Alabama, where he “grew up” on bluegrass music. His father taught him to play the guitar when he was 12 years old; he began playing the mandolin when he was 16 and joined his father’s band as the mandolin player when he was 17. Dustin moved to Nashville in 2002 and has played and toured with many of the more renowned bands in the world of bluegrass music, including [a3191435], the [a1550214] Band, the [a3090108] (for over four years), [a1475115], and most recently [a4467693] (playing guitar and bass). He joined The Special Consensus in 2011. He was nominated for Guitar Player of the Year by the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America (SPBGMA) in 2010. Roll Tide