John McEuen
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John McEuen is an American folk musician and entertainer. He was one of the earliest members of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
. He played with the band from 1966 to 1986, and returned in 2001.The group prior to that 'dissolved' a few times briefly, but none as long as in 1968, right after spending 4 months working on the Paramount Pictures
Paint Your Wagon
. Jeff Hanna went on to play with Linda Ronstadt
, John did various solo gigs and worked in Vegas with Andy Williams
(for a month), and frequented the L.A. music scene, occasionally running in to Jeff.
It was in a So. Cal club, the famed Golden Bear
, one night in early 1969, where John and Jeff Hanna were watching POCO (in one of their first appearances) that they said "we can do this! let's put it back together and find a singing drummer...". The short search led them to Jimmy Ibbotson
, fresh in from the Baltimore
and Philly area, and whose participation with the group began in 1969.
John is known as a multi-instrumentalist, entertainer, composer, and especially recognized as a pioneer stylist on the 5-string banjo and other acoustic colorings he adds to recordings with the other instruments.
Besides his career with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, John McEuen has performed and recorded prolifically as a solo artist and in various group settings, as well as producing music CD
s, film score
s, and videos.
John is the only Californian musician to perform solo on the Grand Ole Opry
, plus play it several times with his band, and then be featured as a guest with several of the Opry member acts. He has recorded with the Nashville's Country music creators, and had records in the pop and country charts. He instigated what Rolling Stone (in 1972) called 'the' most important record to come out of Nashville, and what the 2004 ZAGAT survey called the most important record in country music, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken
."
As a multi-instrumentalist (banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, piano) and solo entertainer, John McEuen plays to the boomer 'hippie' crowd, the traditional/bluegrass and folk audience, as well as the older country audience, and now the younger crowd is showing up to see 'where it all came from'. (Twenty percent are under the age of 30.)
In 2010, John won a Grammy for his production of Steve Martin
- The Crow: New Songs for the 5-string Banjo
, which enjoyed a continuous run on the Billboard charts
at #1 for 7 months. He Played on 7 cuts, did the musical arrangements (except for The Crow, arrg. by Steve and Tony Trischka), of this album of all original music written by Steve. This was followed by appearances with Martin on the finale of American Idol
, the Ellen DeGeneres Show and the Grand Ole Opry in the same week, the week it was released on Rounder Records
.
McEuen has made over 40 albums (six solo) that have earned four platinum and four gold recognition awards, Grammy nominations, CMA and ACM
awards, Western Heritage Award, Emmy nomination, and IBMA record of the year award. In addition, John has performed on another 25 albums as guest artist. He has produced over 200 concerts (his first one being with Bob Dylan
in 1965). John created and ran The Deadwood Jam in South Dakota
for its first 15 years.
John has known and worked with Steve Martin since high school to the present, and was featured on a two-hour A&E
TV special about Steve in February, 2006. In 'the early daze' he accompanied him on banjo or guitar a few shows prior the NGDB starting. John scored Steve's first two NBC television specials, and arranged most of his music; The NGDB was the band on Steve's hit song, "King Tut
." In May, 2009 Rounder Records released the now highly acclaimed music album by Steve Martin, produced by John, The Crow.(2009 Grammy winner for Best Bluegrass Album) Although Steve has often said "John McEuen taught me a lot of how to play the banjo when we started..."John adds that he 'showed him a few licks every now an then, and then he took off writing his own.. and has been as much an influence on me as I may have been on him. I think it is amazing how a couple of guys from Orange County, CA, went and played on the Opry and won a bluegrass Grammy. Never would have guessed that would happen." They both attribute huge influence to Pete Seeger's
'How to Play the 5-String Banjo' book and Doug Dillard.
John's own XM Satellite radio show, Acoustic Traveller on channel 15, runs two times a month has been on since 2005.
You can also find him on syndicatednews.net with his Americana Music Show.
He created the music scores for fourteen film/television projects, including the Emmy nominated 10-hour mini-series for Warner Bros. 'The Wild West.'
John has also raised his six kids (five boys and a girl) ages between 31-41, and a 27-year-old stepson.
Some of the artists John McEuen has performed or recorded with include: Levon Helm
, Dolly Parton
, Steve Martin
, Willie Nelson
, Bill Wyman
, Johnny Cash
, June Carter Cash
, Jerry Garcia
, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Phish, Jerry Jeff Walker
, Kevin Nealon, Alison Krauss
, Bill Cosby
, Stephen Wright
, Mark OConnor, Tommy Lee Jones
, Sissy Spacek
, Linda Ronstadt
, Leon Russell
, Maybelle Carter
, Kris Kristofferson
, Bob Dylan
, Kenny Rogers
, Steve Vai, Doc Watson
, Jimmy Buffett
, The Smothers Brothers, Rowan & Martin, Mary Chapin Carpenter
, Bobby Sherman
, Jose Feliciano
, Allman Brothers, John Denver
, Roy Acuff
, Earl Scruggs
, Jack Benny
, Glen Campbell
, Steve Goodman
, Waylon Jennings
, Robin Williams
, Little River Band
, Marshall Tucker Band
, Doobie Brothers, Andy Williams
, Merle Travis
, Vassar Clements, Dizzy Gillespie
, The Osmond Brothers, Everly Brothers, Crystal Gayle
, Gary Morris, Doug Kershaw, Michael Martin Murphey
, The Doors
, Donovan
, Lee Marvin, Ramblin Jack Elliot, David Amram, Arlo Guthrie
, America, Bill Monroe
, and Asleep at the Wheel.
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an American country-folk-rock band that has existed in various forms since its founding in Long Beach, California in 1966. The group's membership has had at least a dozen changes over the years, including a period from 1976 to 1981 when the band performed and recorded...
. He played with the band from 1966 to 1986, and returned in 2001.The group prior to that 'dissolved' a few times briefly, but none as long as in 1968, right after spending 4 months working on the Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...
Paint Your Wagon
Paint Your Wagon (film)
Paint Your Wagon is a 1969 American musical film starring Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood. The movie was adapted by Paddy Chayefsky from the 1951 stage musical by Lerner and Loewe, set in a mining camp in Gold Rush-era California.-Plot:...
. Jeff Hanna went on to play with Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden...
, John did various solo gigs and worked in Vegas with Andy Williams
Andy Williams
Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams is an American singer who has recorded 18 Gold- and three Platinum-certified albums. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a TV variety show, from 1962 to 1971, as well as numerous television specials, and owns his own theater, the Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri,...
(for a month), and frequented the L.A. music scene, occasionally running in to Jeff.
It was in a So. Cal club, the famed Golden Bear
Golden Bear (nightclub)
The Golden Bear was a nightclub in Huntington Beach, California from 1923 to 1986. It was located on Pacific Coast Highway just south of Main Street...
, one night in early 1969, where John and Jeff Hanna were watching POCO (in one of their first appearances) that they said "we can do this! let's put it back together and find a singing drummer...". The short search led them to Jimmy Ibbotson
Jimmy Ibbotson
Jimmy Ibbotson is an American musician who is best known as a longtime member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. He has also released albums as a solo artist, as a member of the Wild Jimbos, and with John McEuen.-Career:...
, fresh in from the Baltimore
Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
and Philly area, and whose participation with the group began in 1969.
John is known as a multi-instrumentalist, entertainer, composer, and especially recognized as a pioneer stylist on the 5-string banjo and other acoustic colorings he adds to recordings with the other instruments.
Besides his career with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, John McEuen has performed and recorded prolifically as a solo artist and in various group settings, as well as producing music CD
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
s, film score
Film score
A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...
s, and videos.
John is the only Californian musician to perform solo on the Grand Ole Opry
Grand Ole Opry
The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, that has presented the biggest stars of that genre since 1925. It is also among the longest-running broadcasts in history since its beginnings as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM-AM...
, plus play it several times with his band, and then be featured as a guest with several of the Opry member acts. He has recorded with the Nashville's Country music creators, and had records in the pop and country charts. He instigated what Rolling Stone (in 1972) called 'the' most important record to come out of Nashville, and what the 2004 ZAGAT survey called the most important record in country music, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Will the Circle Be Unbroken is a 1972 album officially by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, but with collaboration from many famous Bluegrass and country-western players, including Roy Acuff, Mother Maybelle Carter, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Merle Travis, Bashful Brother Oswald, Norman Blake, Jimmy...
."
As a multi-instrumentalist (banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, piano) and solo entertainer, John McEuen plays to the boomer 'hippie' crowd, the traditional/bluegrass and folk audience, as well as the older country audience, and now the younger crowd is showing up to see 'where it all came from'. (Twenty percent are under the age of 30.)
In 2010, John won a Grammy for his production of Steve Martin
Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician and composer....
- The Crow: New Songs for the 5-string Banjo
The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo
The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo is a 2009 album by Steve Martin, featuring Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Earl Scruggs, Tim O'Brien, Tony Trischka and Mary Black. It contains 15 songs and is the first album focusing on Martin as a musician...
, which enjoyed a continuous run on the Billboard charts
Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine...
at #1 for 7 months. He Played on 7 cuts, did the musical arrangements (except for The Crow, arrg. by Steve and Tony Trischka), of this album of all original music written by Steve. This was followed by appearances with Martin on the finale of American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
, the Ellen DeGeneres Show and the Grand Ole Opry in the same week, the week it was released on Rounder Records
Rounder Records
Rounder Records, originally of Cambridge, Massachusetts, but now based in Burlington, Massachusetts, is a record label founded in 1970 by Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin and Marian Leighton-Levy, while all three were still university students...
.
McEuen has made over 40 albums (six solo) that have earned four platinum and four gold recognition awards, Grammy nominations, CMA and ACM
Academy of Country Music
The Academy of Country Music was founded in 1964 in Los Angeles, California as the Country & Western Music Academy. Whereas the Country Music Association, founded in 1958, was based in Nashville, the Academy sought to promote country music in the western states. Among those involved in the...
awards, Western Heritage Award, Emmy nomination, and IBMA record of the year award. In addition, John has performed on another 25 albums as guest artist. He has produced over 200 concerts (his first one being with Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
in 1965). John created and ran The Deadwood Jam in South Dakota
South Dakota
South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. Once a part of Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. The state has an area of and an estimated population of just over...
for its first 15 years.
John has known and worked with Steve Martin since high school to the present, and was featured on a two-hour A&E
A&E Network
The A&E Network is a United States-based cable and satellite television network with headquarters in New York City and offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, London, Los Angeles and Stamford. A&E also airs in Canada and Latin America. Initially named the Arts & Entertainment Network, A&E launched...
TV special about Steve in February, 2006. In 'the early daze' he accompanied him on banjo or guitar a few shows prior the NGDB starting. John scored Steve's first two NBC television specials, and arranged most of his music; The NGDB was the band on Steve's hit song, "King Tut
King Tut (song)
"King Tut" is a novelty song performed by Steve Martin and the Toot Uncommons . It was released as a single in 1978, sold over a million copies, and reached number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Martin previewed the song in a live performance during the April 22, 1978 episode of Saturday...
." In May, 2009 Rounder Records released the now highly acclaimed music album by Steve Martin, produced by John, The Crow.(2009 Grammy winner for Best Bluegrass Album) Although Steve has often said "John McEuen taught me a lot of how to play the banjo when we started..."John adds that he 'showed him a few licks every now an then, and then he took off writing his own.. and has been as much an influence on me as I may have been on him. I think it is amazing how a couple of guys from Orange County, CA, went and played on the Opry and won a bluegrass Grammy. Never would have guessed that would happen." They both attribute huge influence to Pete Seeger's
Pete Seeger
Peter "Pete" Seeger is an American folk singer and was an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead...
'How to Play the 5-String Banjo' book and Doug Dillard.
John's own XM Satellite radio show, Acoustic Traveller on channel 15, runs two times a month has been on since 2005.
You can also find him on syndicatednews.net with his Americana Music Show.
He created the music scores for fourteen film/television projects, including the Emmy nominated 10-hour mini-series for Warner Bros. 'The Wild West.'
John has also raised his six kids (five boys and a girl) ages between 31-41, and a 27-year-old stepson.
Some of the artists John McEuen has performed or recorded with include: Levon Helm
Levon Helm
Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm , is an American rock multi-instrumentalist and actor who achieved fame as the drummer and frequent lead and backing vocalist for The Band....
, Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. Dolly Parton has appeared in movies like 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias and Straight Talk...
, Steve Martin
Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician and composer....
, Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...
, Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman is an English musician best known as the bass guitarist for the English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1992. Since 1997, he has recorded and toured with his own band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings...
, Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
, June Carter Cash
June Carter Cash
Valerie June Carter Cash was an American singer, dancer, songwriter, actress, comedienne and author who was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash...
, Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia
Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Phish, Jerry Jeff Walker
Jerry Jeff Walker
Jerry Jeff Walker is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is probably most famous for writing the song "Mr. Bojangles.-Biography:...
, Kevin Nealon, Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss
Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in...
, Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby
William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr. is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer, educator, musician and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a starring role in the 1960s action show, I Spy. He later starred in his own series, the...
, Stephen Wright
Stephen Wright
Stephen Wright is an English football defender who currently plays for Hartlepool.-Liverpool:Wright joined Liverpool on a youth contract in June 1996, choosing to join Liverpool over rivals Everton, the club he supported as a boy...
, Mark OConnor, Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and film director. He has received three Academy Award nominations, winning one as Best Supporting Actor for the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive....
, Sissy Spacek
Sissy Spacek
Sissy Spacek is an American actress and singer. She came to international prominence for her for role as Carrie White in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination...
, Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden...
, Leon Russell
Leon Russell
Claude Russell Bridges , known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music....
, Maybelle Carter
Maybelle Carter
"Mother" Maybelle Carter was an American country musician. She is best known as a member of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s and also as a member of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters.-Biography:...
, Kris Kristofferson
Kris Kristofferson
Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson is an American musician, actor, and writer. He is known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"...
, Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
, Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers
Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...
, Steve Vai, Doc Watson
Doc Watson
Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson is an American guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. He has won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's flatpicking skills and knowledge of traditional American music are highly regarded...
, Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Buffett
James William "Jimmy" Buffett is a singer-songwriter, author, entrepreneur, and film producer. He is best known for his music, which often portrays an "island escapism" lifestyle. Together with his Coral Reefer Band, Buffett's musical hits include "Margaritaville" , and "Come Monday"...
, The Smothers Brothers, Rowan & Martin, Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter is an American folk and country music artist. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer...
, Bobby Sherman
Bobby Sherman
Robert Cabot "Bobby" Sherman, Jr. , is an American singer, actor and occasional songwriter, who became a popular teen idol in the late 1960s and early 1970s.He graduated in 1961 from Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California...
, Jose Feliciano
José Feliciano
José Feliciano is a Puerto Rican singer, virtuoso guitarist and composer known for many international hits including the 1970 holiday single "Feliz Navidad".-Childhood:...
, Allman Brothers, John Denver
John Denver
Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. , known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer/songwriter, activist, and humanitarian. After growing up in numerous locations with his military family, Denver began his music career in folk music groups in the late 1960s. His greatest commercial success...
, Roy Acuff
Roy Acuff
Roy Claxton Acuff was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the King of Country Music, Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.Acuff...
, Earl Scruggs
Earl Scruggs
Earl Eugene Scruggs is an American musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a 3-finger banjo-picking style that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music...
, Jack Benny
Jack Benny
Jack Benny was an American comedian, vaudevillian, and actor for radio, television, and film...
, Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell
Glen Travis Campbell is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television.During his 50 years in show...
, Steve Goodman
Steve Goodman
Steve Goodman was an American folk music singer-songwriter from Chicago, Illinois. The writer of "City of New Orleans", made popular by Arlo Guthrie, Goodman won two Grammy Awards.-Personal life:...
, Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing at eight. He began performing at twelve, on KVOW radio. Jennings formed a band The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV and KLLL...
, Robin Williams
Robin Williams
Robin McLaurin Williams is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance...
, Little River Band
Little River Band
Little River Band is an Australian rock band, formed in Melbourne in early 1975.The group chose the name after passing a road sign leading to the Victorian township of Little River, near Geelong, on the way to a performance. Little River Band enjoyed sustained commercial success in not only...
, Marshall Tucker Band
Marshall Tucker Band
The Marshall Tucker Band is an American Southern rock band originally from Spartanburg, South Carolina. The band's blend of rock, rhythm and blues, jazz, country, and gospel helped establish the Southern rock genre in the early 1970s...
, Doobie Brothers, Andy Williams
Andy Williams
Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams is an American singer who has recorded 18 Gold- and three Platinum-certified albums. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a TV variety show, from 1962 to 1971, as well as numerous television specials, and owns his own theater, the Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri,...
, Merle Travis
Merle Travis
Merle Robert Travis was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and musician born in Rosewood, Kentucky. His lyrics often discussed the life and exploitation of coal miners. Among his many well-known songs are "Sixteen Tons", "Re-Enlistment Blues" and "Dark as a Dungeon"...
, Vassar Clements, Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz...
, The Osmond Brothers, Everly Brothers, Crystal Gayle
Crystal Gayle
Crystal Gayle is an American country music singer best known for her 1977 country-pop hit, "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue". An award-winning singer, she accumulated 18 number one country hits during the 1970s and 1980s...
, Gary Morris, Doug Kershaw, Michael Martin Murphey
Michael Martin Murphey
Michael Martin Murphey is an American singer-songwriter best known for writing and performing Western music, Country music, and Popular music. A multiple Grammy nominee, Murphey has six gold albums, including Cowboy Songs, the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since Gunfighter...
, The Doors
The Doors
The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger...
, Donovan
Donovan
Donovan Donovan Donovan (born Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music...
, Lee Marvin, Ramblin Jack Elliot, David Amram, Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Davy Guthrie is an American folk singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings songs of protest against social injustice...
, America, Bill Monroe
Bill Monroe
William Smith Monroe was an American musician who created the style of music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky. Monroe's performing career spanned 60 years as a singer, instrumentalist, composer and bandleader...
, and Asleep at the Wheel.
Albums
| Year | Album | US Country | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | John McEuen | 49 | Warner Bros. |
| 1991 | String Wizards | Vanguard | |
| 1993 | String Wizards II | ||
| 1996 | Acoustic Traveller Acoustic Traveller -Track listing:All tracks by John McEuen except were noted# "Gypsy Knights" – 5:45# "Fisher's" – 1:56# "Keep Walking" – 3:56# "Turki Innastra" – 2:17# "Acoustic Traveller" – 3:32# "Moonlight Dancing" – 4:00... |
||
| 1997 | String Wizard's Picks | ||
| 1999 | Round Trip: Live in L.A. | Cedar Glen | |
| 2000 | Stories and Songs Stories & Songs (Jimmy Ibbotson album) Stories & Songs is the 2000 album by John McEuen and Jimmy Ibbotson. Ibbotson is notable for writing, singing, and playing a variety of instruments on charting songs released by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.-Track listing:... |
Planetary | |
| 2002 | Nitty Gritty Surround Nitty Gritty Surround Nitty Gritty Surround is the 2001 DVD-Video and DVD-Audio release by John McEuen &Jimmy Ibbotson. It consists of a live in studio recording... |
Aix | |
| 2007 | Vanguard Visionaries | Vanguard |
Singles
| Year | Single | US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales... |
Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | "Blue Days Black Nights" | 81 | John McEuen |