question: David Long's style of playing was influenced by the bluegrass musician of what nationality?
answer: American
context: Title: Kym Warner
  Passage: Kym Warner is an Australian musician and record producer, and a founding member of the American bluegrass band The Greencards.  Warner was an aspiring bluegrass musician (which was unusual in Australia at the time) after inheriting the music from his father, an early Australian bluegrass pioneer.  The winner of the Australian National Bluegrass Mandolin Championship for four consecutive years, Warner had toured with country music artists Gina Jeffreys, and with Young again in Kasey Chambers's band.  Before the band formed, Carol Young and Warner both knew each other, and according to Warner had been drawn to bluegrass and American roots music through an appreciation of George Jones and Merle Haggard.  After meeting, Warner and Young made the decision to emigrate to America, to pursue musical careers there.  Later, Young and Warner were living together in Sydney, and trying to find work in the moribund Australian bluegrass scene.  After leaving Australia, they spent time in West Texas before relocating to Austin.
  Title: Pete Kuykendall
  Passage: Peter "Pete" Van Kuykendall (January 15, 1938 – August 24, 2017) also known as Pete Roberts, was an American bluegrass musician, songwriter, discographer and a magazine and music publisher.  He was a co-founder of "Bluegrass Unlimited" magazine and its editor since 1970.  He was instrumental in the formation of the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) in 1985 and the International Bluegrass Music Museum (IBMM) in 1991.  In 1996, he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.
  Title: Michael Derrington Murphy
  Passage: Dr. Michael (Mike) Derrington Murphy (born July 19, 1940) is a chemistry professor, bluegrass musician, and educator who founded the "Bama Bluegrass" Show in 1983.  "Bama Bluegrass" is the first and longest running bluegrass show on Alabama public radio.
  Title: David Long (mandolin player)
  Passage: David Long is a mandolin player from Nashville, Tennessee.  He was born in the winter of 1975.  Long has been described as a next generation musician with traditional sounds of bluegrass.  Long's music career started in 1996.  He plays Rural Country Blues, Old Time Bluegrass,and Early Black String Band.  David’s style of playing was influenced by Curly Seckler.  David has played with the Wildwood Valley Boys for about two years, and with Karl Shiflett and his Big Show.  Famously used explicit language on the stage of the World Famous Station Inn.  This act merely brings the new generation to old time music ad infinitum.
  Title: Eric Uglum
  Passage: Eric Uglum (born November 22, 1961) is an American folk and bluegrass musician, vocalist, producer, and audio engineer.  He has had a productive career in bluegrass and folk music as a solo artist, a member of many bands and has been featured in "Flatpicking Guitar Magazine", "Bluegrass Today", "Bluegrass Unlimited" and "Bluegrass Now" magazine.  He is owner-operator of New Wine Sound Studio and Mastering Lab in Southern California and has worked with many artists including: Ralph Stanley, Alison Krauss, Sean Watkins, Sara Watkins, Stuart Duncan, Ron Block, Rob Ickes, Neal Casal, Sierra Hull, The Black Market Trust and Gonzalo Bergara.  In addition to working independently through his New Wine Sound Studio and Mastering Lab, Uglum is also a staff engineer at Blue Night Records.
  Title: Curly Seckler
  Passage: John Ray Sechler, known as Curly Seckler, (born December 25, 1919), is an American bluegrass musician.
  Title: Jerry Corbitt
  Passage: Corbitt was born in Tifton, Georgia.  He began his career in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the beginning of the 1960s as a bluegrass musician, then was known as a folk singer.  In mid-1960s, Corbitt met Jesse Colin Young, a Queens, New York City-born moderately successful folk singer.  In January 1965, the two began touring in Canada as a duo, eventually naming themselves "The Youngbloods".  Young played bass, and Corbitt played piano, harmonica and lead guitar.  Later on, they were joined by Corbitt's friend, a bluegrass musician Lowell "Banana" Levinger, and drummer Joe Bauer.
  Title: Don Wayne Reno
  Passage: Don Wayne Reno (born February 8, 1963 in Roanoke, Virginia) is a bluegrass musician and banjo player, and also an ordained minister.  He is a son of famed bluegrass musician Don Reno.  Reno was for several years a mainstay of Hayseed Dixie with his brother Dale Reno as the mandolinist.  He currently works with his brother and Mitch Harrell in the band Reno and Harrell.
  Title: Mark Austin (composer)
  Passage: Mark Austin (born 1958) is a New Zealand composer and musical director who has written scores for many films, television programmes and commercials.  Much of his work has received critical acclaim.  Besides writing alone, he has collaborated with David Long, Don McGlashan and Neill Duncan, among others.  He has also worked in dance and theatre and was particularly active in this area in Auckland in the 1990s, where he was involved in several productions at the now defunct Watershed Theatre.  (A notable example is Braindead the Musical, on which he collaborated with Neill Duncan as co-composer and Musical Director in 1995, the libretto having been written by Fran Walsh and Stephen Sinclair, with props created by Weta Workshop and the production directed by Michael Hurst.)  With David Long, Austin has collaborated with dance choreographers Douglas Wright, Ann Dewey, Daniel Belton, and Mary Jane O’Reilly, and, on his own, with Josie Thompson.  In 2002 he moved to his home town of Wellington (where he was well known in the early 1980s as leader of The Tin Syndrome (band)).  He continues to write soundtracks, in between commissions and other projects.
  Title: Tony Rice
  Passage: Tony Rice (born David Anthony Rice, June 8, 1951, Danville, Virginia, United States) is an American guitarist and bluegrass musician.  He is perhaps the most influential living acoustic guitar player in bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, newgrass and flattop acoustic jazz.  He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2013.
citations: Curly Seckler David Long (mandolin player)