Reese's had so much success with their chocolate and peanut butter
experiment that Drew Emmitt and Bill Nershi decided to try the same
thing with salmon and cheese. Emmitt's Leftover Salmon and Nershi's String Cheese Incident have been crossing paths on the Newgrass/Jamgrass circuit for a good number of years, and somewhere along the line the bandleaders’ friendship and mutual respect turned into the idea to work together. Thus was born the cleverly dubbed Emmitt-Nershi Band.
