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In this first biography of legendary banjoist J. D. Crowe, Marty Godbey charts the life and career of one of bluegrass's most important innovators. Born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, Crowe picked up the banjo when he was thirteen years old, inspired by a Flatt & Scruggs performance at the Kentucky Barn Dance. Godbey relates the long, distinguished career that followed, as Crowe performed and recorded both solo and as part of such varied ensembles as Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys, the all-acoustic Kentucky Mountain Boys, and the revolutionary New South, who created an adventurously eclectic brand of bluegrass by merging rock and country music influences with traditional forms. Over the decades, this highly influential group launched the careers of many other fresh talents such as Keith Whitley, Ricky Skaggs, Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, and Doyle Lawson. With a selective discography and drawing from more than twenty interviews with Crowe and dozens more with the players who know him best, Crowe on the Banjo: The Music Life of J. D. Crowe is the definitive music biography of a true bluegrass original. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Crowe, born and raised around Lexington, Kentucky, was only thirteen years old when he decided that he wanted to play the banjo. That inspiration came in the person of Earl Scruggs, who along with Lester Flatt, often performed on the Kentucky Barn Dance. Crowe learned by watching Scruggs as often as possible and would soon be playing with local bands and on radio shows himself. One of those radio performances would lead to a six-year job with Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys that would end in 1962 when Crowe decided to leave the band for a solo career of his own.
Those years with Jimmy Martin were not wasted. Crowe modeled his own work ethic and style around what he experienced with Martin, resulting in an incredibly tight band filled with musicians capable of producing instrumentals and harmony vocals second to no one. Crowe finally came to national prominence in the 1970s when he formed the New South, a band whose original members were Tony Rice on guitar, Ricky Skaggs on mandolin, Jerry Douglas on dobro, and Bobby Sloan on fiddle and bass. Today, of course, this first version of the New South would be considered an all-star band.
But it was in 1975, with the release of Rounder 0044 (titled J.D. Crowe & the New South), that the real impact of J.D. Crowe upon bluegrass music was first felt. The trendsetting album so successfully transferred country, folk, and rock songs into the bluegrass treatment that bluegrass was changed forever. The sound was so successful that it even led to a breakthrough into mainstream country music for rising star Keith Whitley, a member of the New South by the late seventies, who so sadly died of alcohol poisoning just as solo success was finally his.
Despite having “retired” on more than one occasion, J.D. Crowe is a fixture of the current bluegrass scene and lucky fans around the country can still enjoy his most recent New South configuration.
Crowe on the Banjo is filled with the details of J.D. Crowe’s musical evolution from the moment the thirteen-year-old first discovered his love for a banjo, right on through every band that he worked with or put together from that point onward. It is far from being a personal, or complete J.D. Crowe biography, but it is a first-rate take on the banjo picker’s “music life” that will be much appreciated by Crowe fans.
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