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A longtime staple from the bluegrass picture, singer and multi-instrumentalist Plant Pedersen was created Apr 27, 1944, in Berkeley, CA. The kid of the policeman, he was launched to nation music at several Bay Region folk festivals, getting kindred spirits in fellow aspiring music artists like Jerry Garcia (who continued …

The San Diego-based hardcore band Grain was a goofy satire of anarchist punk that remained startlingly true to the band’s name. Their lyrics experienced all of the militant sloganeering and impassioned rhetoric of standard-issue politics hardcore, but rather than freedom, every track they published was about…grain. Musically, Rice’s horn section …

Although their name continues to be likened to an attorney, Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pederson are not a stodgy couple of bookworms. The seed products from the acoustic nation/newgrass group had been planted in Sept 1963 when brothers Larry and Tony Grain, Chris Hillman, and Supplement Pedersen all performed in …

Larry Grain, a renowned mandolin participant, started his bluegrass profession by taking part in in his father’s music group, the Golden Condition Boys. He later on formed his personal music group (the Haphazards) with brothers Tony and Ronnie. Within the ’70s, he co-founded the brand new South, with J.D. Crowe, …

Tony Grain is among bluegrass’ most inventive flatpicking guitarists. Although he’s shown a mastery from the genre’s customs, Grain set the typical for more sophisticated styles. A previous person in the Bluegrass Alliance, the David Grisman Quintet, J.D. Crowe’s New South, as well as the Bluegrass Record Band, Grain has …

Along with regular collaborator Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman was the main element figure in the introduction of country-rock, virtually defining the genre through his seminal use the Byrds as well as the Traveling Burrito Brothers. Hillman was created on Dec 4, 1944, in LA, where he was raised hearing Spade …