Russ Barenberg

Russ Barenberg is among the most melodic instrumentalists in modern bluegrass. Most widely known for his Clarence White-style flatpicking, Barenberg frequently uses his various other three fingers to improve tempo and melody and create a far more textural level of sensitivity. A former person in Nation Cooking food, Heartlands, Fiddle Fever, and Laughing Hands, Barenberg offers remained energetic since shifting to Nashville in 1986. Influenced by Doc Watson and Mississippi John Harm, Barenberg started playing acoustic guitar at age 13. Together with his sibling and sister, he required lessons from Alan Miller, the old sibling of long term bandmate John Miller. A turning stage arrived in 1964, when Barenberg found out the past due Clarence White with an album from the Kentucky Colonels, Appalachian Golf swing! While going to Cornell University or college in Ithaca, NY, in 1968, Barenberg fulfilled banjo whiz Pete Wernick. 2 yrs later, both instrumentalists became a member of with Tony Trischka, Kenny Kosek, and John Miller to create the seminal bluegrass music group Nation Cooking. Through the four years that Nation Cooking was collectively, the group documented two important albums, Nation Cooking food and 26 Bluegrass Instrumentals, and followed mandolinist Frank Wakefield on the third recording. After Nation Cooking food disbanded in 1975, Barenberg briefly switched to guitar and performed having a jazz-rock music group, Carried Away. Annoyed by the music business, nevertheless, he halted playing from 1975 to 1977 when he relocated to NY and, as well as Trischka, Miller, and fiddler Matt Glaser, created the innovative bluegrass music group Heartlands. Even though music group didn’t record an recording of its, Heartlands supported Barenberg on his 1980 debut single record, Cowboy Calypso. Shifting to Boston, Barenberg freelanced with many pickup rings and taught electric guitar and mandolin on the Music Emporium in Cambridge. In 1982, he became a member of Glaser and fiddler/mandolinist Jay Ungar in the eclectic string music group Fiddle Fever, documenting two albums using the group. Furthermore, Barenberg caused Glaser and mandolinist Andy Statman in the short-lived experimental bluegrass-jazz music group Laughing Hands. Since shifting to Nashville, Barenberg spent some time working thoroughly with dobro participant and record manufacturer Jerry Douglas. Furthermore to associated Irish vocalist Maura O’Connell, both musicians documented a trio record, Neglect, Hop & Wobble, with upright bassist Edgar Meyer. Being a program player, Barenberg provides recorded on many demonstration tapes for Nashville posting companies and made an appearance on albums by Béla Fleck, Hazel Dickens, Mel Tillis, and Randy Travis. Barenberg in addition has been highlighted on instructional tapes, including How exactly to Play Bluegrass Electric guitar and Teach Yourself Bluegrass Electric guitar, released by Homespun Tapes and Movies. He gained a Grammy nomination for Greatest Nation Instrumental Efficiency for the tune “Small Monk” from his 2007 record When finally.