Strength In Numbers was a bluegrass supergroup formed in the late 1980s. The group featured Béla Fleck (banjo), Mark O'Connor (fiddle, guitar), Sam Bush (mandolin), Jerry Douglas (dobro) and Edgar Meyer (bass). They released their only album, Telluride Sessions, in 1989. The group, minus Fleck, played on "Nothing but a Child" from Steve Earle's 1988 album, Copperhead Road under the name "Telluride".
The catalyst for their progressive approach to bluegrass was Sam
Bush's group, New Grass Revival, in 1971. In 1975 this group made their
first appearance at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival at the ski resort
town of the same name in the Colorodo Rockies. Strength in Numbers met
at subsequent festivals at Telluride in the late 1970s and 1980s.
The music of Strength in Numbers is influenced by the bluegrass
virtuoso music of earlier artists Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass boys,
and Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. Often the music of Strength in
Numbers is referred to as "Newgrass" or progressive bluegrass. This
music uses core bluegrass instrumentation with rhythmic features and
solo playing styles of jazz.
Source: Wikipedia.