By Scott Galupo, Washington Post

Vince Gill says he experienced an epiphany as a young musician: “If I kept playing bluegrass, I would never own my own home.”

After a couple of decades as one of country music’s most consistently popular frontmen, Gill now owns what he describes as a “really big house.”

Vince Gill, right, was joined by a talented group of bluegrass players for a show at the Birchmere.

But the visceral thrill of bluegrass still beckons the 54-year-old multi-instrumental master, and at the Birchmere Music Hall on Friday night he led an expansive four-hour set of classics by the likes of Bill Monroe (“You Won’t Be Satisfied That Way,” “My Rose of Old Kentucky”), the Stanley Brothers (“East Virginia Blues”) and Jimmy Martin (“My Walking Shoes”).

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