Tag Archives: Bluegrass

Ohio-based Americana singer/songwriter David Mayfield offers deep roots within the bluegrass and folk moments. The Kent indigenous was raised playing bass and touring along with his family’s bluegrass music group, later embracing acoustic guitar and mandolin as an adolescent and earning nationwide honours for his deft flatpicking design. He offers …

The RFD Children — Charlie Roehrig (lead vocals, guitar), Paul Shapiro (bass, vocals), Dick Dieterle (fiddle, vocals), and Willard Spencer (banjo, dobro, vocals) — formed in 1969 on the School of Michigan in Ann Arbor. (The “RFD” means “Rural Free of charge Delivery,” that is how farmers utilized to get …

Vocalist Gina Blaber, Kevin Russell (who takes on acoustic guitar, mandolin and five-string banjo), mandolin and guitarist Layne Bowen, bassist Tom Sours, and dobro participant Craig Anderson (who also provides hand about banjo) constitute the Sonoma County-based modern bluegrass band Contemporary Hicks. Drawing motivation from music artists as varied as …

Along with his skill and his broad definition of this is of bluegrass music, Mike Auldridge became known over his multi-decade career being a master from the Dobro, or resonator guitar. Elevated in Kensington, Maryland, he started playing electric guitar at 12, adding banjo when he was 16 and buying …

The bluegrass-based jam band the String Cheese Incident comprises mandolinist/violinist Michael Kang, guitarist Expenses Nershi, bassist Keith Moseley, pianist Kyle Hollingsworth, and percussionists Jason Hann and Michael Travis. Shaped in Boulder, Colorado in 1993, the group’s self-described “sacrilegious mixture of bluegrass, calypso, salsa, Afro-pop, funk, rock and roll, and jazz” …

Despite sporting a name that’s decidedly Texan, One Riot One Ranger is in fact located in Columbus, OH, and there’s only one Texan-born musician within the number. The band, also called 1R1R, was founded in 1990, but just two of the band’s later on five members had been present once …

Created in 1946, the Family members are noted for his or her country and gospel performances. They comprised Johnnie Experts (b. John Mace Purdom, 27 Might 1913, Jacksonville, Florida, USA, d. 21 January 1980; songwriter, acoustic guitar, mandolin, vocals), Lucille Experts (b. Lucille Ferdon, 13 Sept 1917, Homerville, Georgia, USA; …

The Monroe Brothers began like a trio of Birch, Charlie, and Expenses Monroe on fiddle, guitar and mandolin respectively, performing sq . dance songs in addition to traditional and gospel figures. In 1932, Expenses and Charlie started touring professionally using the WLS touring organization as dancers, showing up using the …

Del and Jerry McCoury pursued person professions in bluegrass prior to the Pennsylvania-born siblings teamed up for the 1987 Rounder recording, The McCoury Brothers. Old brother Del experienced performed banjo before switching to acoustic guitar and performing lead with Expenses Monroe’s Blue Lawn Males in 1963-1964. He consequently led his …

Bluegrass vocalist and fiddler Rhonda Vincent began her professional music profession at age five, using drums with her family’s music group, the Sally Hill Show. She found the mandolin at eight as well as the fiddle at ten, executing with the family members band at celebrations on weekends. After showing …