The worst thing to happen to the Nace Brothers Band in a while quickly turned into the best thing to happen to them in a while. In May, bass player and fiddler Tim Williams retired after 31 years with the band, but on June 1, Paul Greenlease was on the bass and providing the other three members — lead singer and drummer David Nace, guitarist Jimmy Nace and keyboardist T.J. Erhardt — with fresh inspiration.
“It’s devastating in the fact that you think you’re gonna have a revolving chair of bass players from here on out,” Jimmy Nace said in a recent phone interview from his rural Warrensburg home. “But luckily, that’s not what happened, and me and David were both surprised.”
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