Rob Quist in Rolling Stones

Rob Quist grew up in Cut Bank.

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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-democrats-battle-for-montana-w482375

Quist is no stranger to cheering crowds or life on the road. A professional musician who has played for audiences as diverse as Hee Haw and CBGB, Quist is most famous for picking guitar and banjo in the Mission Mountain Wood Band, Montana’s iconic “electric bluegrass” act that shared 1970s stages with the likes of Merle Haggard, Jerry Garcia and Bo Diddley. Quist continues a solo career in a folksier vein – recent songs include “A Lady Called Montana” and “.45 Caliber Man” – and he tends to a small ranch in the Flathead Valley, south of Glacier National Park. The campaign’s endless five-event days, crisscrossing a state the size of Japan, seem to energize rather than exhaust Quist. “This is not work for me,” he says with a wry smile. “This is the best.”