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Grammy Award For Best Country Instrumental
The Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance was awarded from 1970 to 2011. Between 1986 and 1989 the award was presented as the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist). In 2012 the award was discontinued in a major overhaul of Grammy categories. From 2012, the best instrumental performances in the country category were shifted to either the Best Country Solo Performance The Grammy Award for Best Country Solo Performance is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. According to the 54th Grammy Awards description guide it is design ... or Best Country Duo/Group Performance categories, both newly formed. Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year. Recipients References {{DEFAULTSORT:Grammy Award For Best Country Instrumental Performance Grammy Awards for country musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grammy Award
The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the music industry worldwide. It was originally called the Gramophone Awards, as the trophy depicts a gilded Phonograph, gramophone. The Grammys are the first of the Big Three television networks, Big Three networks' major music awards held annually, and is considered one of the EGOT, four major annual American entertainment awards, alongside the Academy Awards (for films), the Emmy Awards (for television), and the Tony Awards (for theater). The 1st Annual Grammy Awards, first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4, 1959, to honor the musical accomplishments of performers for the year 1958. After the 2011 ceremony, the Recording Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. History The Grammys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
15th Grammy Awards
The 15th Annual Grammy Awards were held on March 3, 1973, at the Tennessee Theatre (Nashville), Tennessee Theatre in Nashville, Tennessee. The event was the first Grammy ceremony not to be held in either New York City or Los Angeles (the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, 64th Grammys, staged in Las Vegas in 2022, would be the second). The 15th Grammys were also the first to be broadcast live on CBS, which has carried every Grammy telecast since. Performers Award winners * Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Record of the Year **Joel Dorn (producer) & Roberta Flack for "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face#Roberta Flack version, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" performed by Roberta Flack * Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Album of the Year **George Harrison (producer & artist), Phil Spector (producer), Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, Ravi Shankar, Ringo Starr & Klaus Voormann for ''The Concert for Bangladesh (album), The Concert for Bangladesh'' * Grammy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vassar Clements
Vassar Carlton Clements (April 25, 1928 – August 16, 2005) was an American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and bluegrass along with roots also in country and other musical traditions. Biography Clements was born in Kinard, Florida and grew up in Kissimmee. He taught himself to play the fiddle at age 7, learning "There's an Old Spinning Wheel in the Parlor" as his first song. Soon, he joined with two first cousins, Red and Gerald, to form a local string band. In his early teens Clements met Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys when they came to Florida to visit Clements' stepfather, a friend of fiddler Chubby Wise. Clements was impressed with his playing. In late 1949, Wise left Monroe's group, and the 21 year-old Clements traveled by bus to ask for an audition. When told he would have to return the next day, Clements was crestfallen, lacking the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asleep At The Wheel
Asleep at the Wheel is an American Western swing group that was formed in Paw Paw, West Virginia, and is based in Austin, Texas. The band has won nine Grammy Awards since their 1970 inception, released over twenty albums, and has charted more than 21 singles on the ''Billboard'' country charts. Their highest-charting single, "The Letter That Johnny Walker Read", peaked at No. 10 in 1975. History Beginnings to Austin In 1969, Ray Benson and Lucky Oceans (Reuben Gosfield) co-founded Asleep at the Wheel in Paw Paw, West Virginia, and soon after they found themselves opening for Alice Cooper and Hot Tuna in Washington, D.C. A year later, they moved to East Oakland, California, at the invitation of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. After being mentioned in ''Rolling Stone'' magazine by Van Morrison, they landed a record deal with United Artists. In 1973, their debut album, ''Comin' Right at Ya'', was released by United Artists. At the invitation of Willie Nelson, they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Entertainer (rag)
"The Entertainer" is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin. It was sold first as sheet music, and in the 1910s as piano rolls that would play on player pianos. The first recording was by blues and ragtime musicians the Blue Boys in 1928, played on mandolin and guitar. As one of the classics of ragtime, it returned to international prominence as part of the ragtime revival in the 1970s, when it was used as the theme music for the 1973 Oscar-winning film ''The Sting''. Composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch's adaptation reached No. 3 on the ''Billboard'' pop chart and spent a week at No. 1 on the easy listening chart in 1974. ''The Sting'' was set in the 1930s, a full generation after the end of ragtime's mainstream popularity, thus giving the inaccurate impression that ragtime music was popular at that time. The Recording Industry Association of America ranked it at No. 10 on its "Songs of the Century" list. Music "The Entertainer" is sub-titled "A Rag Time Two St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th Grammy Awards
The 18th Annual Grammy Awards were held February 28, 1976, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1975. Award winners *Record of the Year **"Love Will Keep Us Together" - Captain & Tennille (artist) & Daryl Dragon (producer) * Album of the Year **''Still Crazy After All These Years'' - Paul Simon (artist) - Phil Ramone & Paul Simon (producers) * Song of the Year **" Send In the Clowns" - Judy Collins (artist) - Stephen Sondheim (songwriter) *Best New Artist **Natalie Cole Children's *Best Recording for Children **Richard Burton for ''The Little Prince'' Classical * Best Classical Performance – Orchestra **Pierre Boulez (conductor), the Camarata Singers & the New York Philharmonic for ''Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (Complete Ballet)'' *Best Classical Vocal Performance **Janet Baker for ''Mahler: Kindertotenlieder'' *Best Opera Recording **Erik Smith (producer), Colin Davis (conductor), Richard van Allan, Janet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barefoot Jerry
Barefoot Jerry is an American country rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. Fusing country music and progressive rock, they have been described as a seminal southern rock band. The band was most active from 1971 to 1977. It was composed of area studio musicians under the tutelage of Wayne Moss and Mac Gayden. Barefoot Jerry was named after a country fiddle player who performed inside a store next to Gayden's home in the Smoky Mountains. Both Moss and Gayden had been lead guitarists for Area Code 615 and also for other 615 alumni. This name is also used to refer to Moss and his sidemen in current reunions and other projects. Moss founded Cinderella Recording Studios and has operated it since 1960. Moss had previously played in many sessions, including Bob Dylan's ''Blonde on Blonde'', and played the guitar riff on Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman". In addition to Moss and Gayden, band members included Terry Dearmore, Kenny Buttrey, Jim Colvard, Dave Doran, Si Edwards, John Harris, War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merle Travis
Merle Robert Travis (November 29, 1917 – October 20, 1983) was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Rosewood, Kentucky, United States. His songs' lyrics often discussed both the lives and the economic exploitation of American coal miners. Among his many well-known songs and recordings are "Sixteen Tons", "Re-Enlistment Blues", " I am a Pilgrim" and " Dark as a Dungeon". However, it is his unique guitar style, still called "Travis picking" by guitarists, as well as his interpretations of the rich musical traditions of his native Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, for which he is best known today. Travis picking is a syncopated style of guitar fingerpicking rooted in ragtime music in which alternating chords and bass notes are plucked by the thumb while melodies are simultaneously plucked by the index finger. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1977. Biography Early ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
17th Grammy Awards
The 17th Annual Grammy Awards were presented March 1, 1975, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1974. Award winners *Record of the Year **John Farrar (producer) & Olivia Newton-John for "I Honestly Love You" (award presented by John Lennon and Paul Simon and accepted by Art Garfunkel) * Album of the Year **Stevie Wonder (producer & artist) for ''Fulfillingness' First Finale'' * Song of the Year **Alan and Marilyn Bergman & Marvin Hamlisch (songwriters) for "The Way We Were" performed by Barbra Streisand *Best New Artist **Marvin Hamlisch Children's *Best Recording for Children ** Sebastian Cabot, Sterling Holloway & Paul Winchell for ''Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too'' Classical * Best Classical Performance - Orchestra **Georg Solti (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for '' Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique'' * Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance **Leontyne Price for ''Leontyne Price Sings Richa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dueling Banjos
"Dueling Banjos" is a bluegrass composition by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith. The song was composed in 1954 by Smith as a banjo instrumental he called "Feudin' Banjos," which contained riffs from Smith, recorded in 1955 playing a four-string plectrum banjo and accompanied by five-string bluegrass banjo player Don Reno. The composition's first wide-scale airing was on a 1963 television episode of ''The Andy Griffith Show'' called "Briscoe Declares for Aunt Bee," in which it is played by visiting musical family the Darlings (played by The Dillards, a bluegrass group) along with Griffith himself. The song was made famous by the 1972 film ''Deliverance,'' which also led to a successful lawsuit by the song's composer, as it was used in the film without Smith's permission. The film version was arranged and recorded by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell, but only credited to Weissberg on a single subsequently issued in December 1972. It went to #2 for four weeks on the ''Billboard'' Hot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Mandell
Stephen Arnold "Steve" Mandell ( – March 14, 2018) was an American bluegrass guitarist and banjoist. Most notably, he is known for the 1973 instrumental hit "Dueling Banjos," recorded in duo with Eric Weissberg and was awarded a Grammy. Life and career Mandell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Mount Vernon and New Rochelle, New York. In the early 1960s, along with mandolinist David Grisman, he was part of the Garrett Mountain Boys. In the 1960s and 1970s, Mandell was a prominent session musician, and he played on Judy Collins live album ''The Judy Collins Concert'' (1964) and studio album ''True Stories and Other Dreams'' (1973), among others. In 1972, Mandell recorded "Dueling Banjos" with another session musician, Eric Weissberg. In 1973, the single peaked at No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, No. 5 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles, and No. 1 on Adult Contemporary chart, and the tune was the theme of the 1972 film ''Deliverance''. The song was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Weissberg
Eric Weissberg (August 16, 1939 – March 22, 2020) was an American singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist, whose most commercially successful recording was his banjo solo in "Dueling Banjos," featured as the theme of the film ''Deliverance'' (1972) and released as a single that reached number 2 in the United States and Canada in 1973. A member of the folk group the Tarriers for years, Weissberg later developed a career as a session musician. He played and recorded with leading folk, bluegrass, rock, and popular musicians and groups from the middle of the 20th century to its end. Life and career Weissberg was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Cecile (Glasberg), a liquor buyer, and Will Weissberg, a publicity photographer. He attended The Little Red Schoolhouse in New York's Greenwich Village and graduated from The High School of Music & Art in New York City. He went on to the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Juilliard School of Music. From 1956 to 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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