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- Favorite Flatpickers
- Tony Rice, Clarence White, Doc, Russ Barenburg, Jeff Guernsey
- Favorite Flatpicking Tunes
- Windy City Rag, Alabama Jubilee, Katy Hill, Jesse Polka
- Favorite Guitars
- late 70's era Mossman Great Plains, old D 28 Herringbones
- Tell us more about yourself (place a Bio here if you wish)
- I discovered flatpicking in 1974 watching a PBS tv special which featured David Bromberg, Norman Blake, and John Hartford. Once I discovered Dac Watson I was really hooked. I played in a number of bluegrass groups in college and found my way to southern Indiana (Bloomington) which had a lively bluegrass and old time scene. I joined ALison Kruass'
band Union Station in the late 80's and made two records while there, "I;ve got that old Feeling" and "Two Highways" I moved to Nashville in 1992 and toured and recorded with Vince Gill , Patty Lovelesss, Tim O'Brien, The Cheiftains, I've also been a producer of three Mike Clevland's recordings for Rounder Records and did two solo CD's on Rounder.
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I've been a fan for years! Are you still playing the Mossman?
Rex - Winfield, KS
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I love your pickin' and singing. I about wore out the White album. I almost have your break down from Little Joe. In fact, when you where at Merlefest a number of years ago, we where the nuts shouting for that tune. So what are you up to now??
Rick Fannin in Chapel Hill
Are you going to be with Lyle Lovett at Flores County Store in August? Would love to feed you some good old fashioned home cooking. We are about 15 minutes from Flores.
Joe
Hi Jeff,
I saw you guys (and a young John McCutcheon) as the entertainment at the Fort Wayne Johnny Appleseed Festival (where I was one of the craftsmen).
I couldn't get over how well you guys played. I had recently bought a copy of Blake's "Fields Of November" and you guys did one or two off that CD. I was stunned. It's funny, but until I saw you play as you did, it sorta didn't sink in that that kind of guitar playing could be done live -- not studio.
The circles of life are sometimes small, and by coincidence I had met Dave a few years before. I'm and Indianapolis kid, but I went up to Warsaw to go to school at Grace College (actually, I went there to play ball. I am, after all, a Hoosier).
One evening, while walking my way back from the lake to my dorm, I heard banjo echoing off the walls of two large brick buildings. As I rounded the corner, there sat Dave sitting on his folk's front porch and picking. His dad was, at that time, pastor at that Free Methodist Church in Winona Lake.
I asked if he minded me hanging around and listening. He didn't. After a song or two, he asked if I played. At the time I played fake folk on a nylon string. But Dave excitedly ran in the house and returned with a Gibson dreadnought.
I embarressedly stumbled my way through Freight Train -- fingerstyle. Dave graciously said "man, that's alright". Then, when I returned the guitar he said, "This is how I learned that one", and proceeded to cross pick the thing.
Dave was known for his banjo, but he was a fine guitar player. I'd never seen anyone crosspick quite like that. My brother did a pretty decent job of pattern picking folk/travis with a flatpick, but nothing as detailed as what Dave did that night.
I bought my copy of "Regressive Bluegrass" at that Ft Wayne festival and nearly wore it out. The whole band was great -- especially for that time frame. But I admit that your guitar and especially your vocals are what made me nearly wear that record out.
Next time I saw your name pop up it was with Union Station, but I've watched lots of your projects with great interest (I even have some old VHS of Austin City Limits). Mark Cosgrove describes you well when he says "...I always think that is the way to do it. Right there. Just that way!"
It's cool to see you here and get a chance to say how much I love your picking and singing. You are what I feel is the epitome of sideguys as well as being such a monster player and singer on your own. When I listen to you sing with Vince or play guitar on your solo CD I always think that is the way to do it. Right there. Just that way!
Best always, Mark
LJ
My Mossman is a 1977 Winter Wheat. Don't you have one from about that same time?
LJ
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