Add another adjective to legendary banjo player J.D. Crowe’s resume.

“A Kentucky Treasure: The J.D. Crowe Story,” is the name of a new video profile of the Lexington, Ky., native, that’s been produced by KET, Kentucky Educational Television, based in Lexington.

It will air Wednesday, Nov. 5, at 8 p.m. central time on KET1 and at the same time Sunday, Nov. 9, on KET2.

The 90-minute program includes numerous interviews with musicians who have worked with J.D. Crowe over the years, including members of the 1975 incarnation of his band, The New South, which featured Tony Rice, Ricky Skaggs, Jerry Douglas and Bobby Slone.

This was “arguably the best bluegrass band in history,” said producer H. Russell Farmer, a Kentucky independent filmmaker who for 30 years produced music programming for KET.

The program also includes footage of a rare 1975 performance of Crowe and his band in the KET studios “with the pompadour hair and the shiny shirts that became an underground treasure,” Farmer said.

J.D. Crowe talks about his life and music, including insightful comments regarding his relationship with and influence upon a country superstar, the late Keith Whitley, who cut his teeth in bluegrass.

The program also includes interviews with other luminaries in the world of bluegrass music, including crossover star Alison Krauss.

“One of the good things about producing a program about a living legend is that most of the folks who helped him attain that title are still around. Unfortunately I did not interview Jimmy Martin before he passed away, [but] I do interview some of Jimmy’s other banjo players: the ones who heard Martin — who gave J.D. his start — tell them to ‘play it like J.D. did.”H. Russell Farmer – Producer

KET signed on the air in September 1968 as Kentucky’s statewide public broadcasting network. Today, KET is the largest PBS member network in America. Its 31 transmitters (16 analog, 15 digital) and four translators deliver both the PBS national schedule and the network’s own wide range of local arts, cultural, documentary, and public affairs productions to viewers throughout Kentucky and in parts of seven surrounding states.