Banjo player Doug Dillard, an influential bluegrass musician who played with many rock outfits, appeared on "The Andy Griffith Show" and with his family band the Dillards, died Wednesday in Nashville after a long illness, the group's longtime publisher Lynne Robin Green said Thursday. He was 75.

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Very sad to read this. I have afew Dillards CDs and really like them. Especially their work with Gene Clark of the Byrds.

Rick A.

Didn't he play on some Monkees records?