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1977 Christian Seguret With Bluegrass Friends: Bill Keith, Mike Lilly, Wendy Miller, Jean Marie Redon , Jean-Claude Druot, Denis Blanchard – Old Fashioned Love, Cezame – CEZ 1035 (tracks: B3, B4) 1977 Mud Acres: Woodstock Mountains: More Music From Mud Acres, Rounder 3018 (My Love Is But A Lassie Yet, (banjo instrumental quadrille)
The first consists of primary banjo players and the second of celebrities that also play the banjo This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
In 1986, after twenty years with the Dirt Band, McEuen departed to pursue a solo career. From 1991–1997, he released four albums for Vanguard Records. He composed music for movies and television and he appeared as a guest on albums with several artists including five albums with Michael Martin Murphey. He then returned to the Dirt Band in ...
Other members included Richard Underwood (banjo), David McLaughlin (mandolin), Eddie Stubbs (fiddle) and Gary B Reid (bass). [5] The band ended in 1988 due to road life stresses, but have since played reunion shows and another album Blue Diamond. [6] Connell and other band members also provided musical support for Buzz Busby. [7] [8]
He found Dirk Powell, who played banjo, the Reeltime Travelers, an old-time music band from Tennessee, and Tim Eriksen, a vocalist and guitarist who was familiar with Sacred Harp music. [3] The song " Idumea " is an example of Sacred Harp music, also known as shape note because the notes printed on the sheet music bear shapes, such as squares ...
At age eight, Evans was introduced to the banjo by his father [4] who played old time banjo, but Evans preferred the Earl Scruggs style of playing. In his teens, he began singing and writing songs. Evans' first professional band was in 1968, with Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys.
Dillard, who grew up on a farm near Salem, Missouri, began learning guitar and fiddle at age five, and banjo at age 15. [1] He began playing in the family band, with his father Homer Sr. on fiddle, his mother Lorene on guitar, and his older brother Earl on keyboards. [2] His banjo heroes were Earl Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, and Don Reno. [3]
Earl Scruggs did not invent three-finger banjo playing; in fact, he said the three-finger style was the most common way to play the five-string banjo in his hometown in western North Carolina. [8] An early influence was a local banjoist, DeWitt "Snuffy" Jenkins , who plucked in a finger style.