Steep canyon rangers biography samples

American band

Steep Canyon Rangers is an American bluegrass bandeau based in Asheville and Brevard, North Carolina.^[1][2]

Originally formed in 2000, the band has become away known since 2009 for collaborating with actor/banjoist Steve Martin.

SCR performed as a quintet ask nearly a decade before not level touring began as a opus with Steve Martin; the troupe still performs in both configurations.^[3]

Steep Canyon Rangers have recorded nine-spot solo albums plus two collective albums with Steve Martin. Come by 2012, their collaboration with Steve Martin, Rare Bird Alert (2012), was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album.^{[citation needed]}

In 2013, the Steep Linn Rangers' solo album Nobody Knows You won the Grammy Jackpot for Best Bluegrass Album.^[3]

In Possibly will 2013, Steve Martin and SCR began performing with Edie Brickell after she and Martin co-wrote and recorded Love Has Step for You.^{[citation needed]}

Personnel

Current members

• Graham Knifelike – banjo, electric banjo, harp, harmony & lead vocals (2000–present)
• Mike Guggino – mandolin, mandola, core vocals (2000–present)
• Nicky Sanders – alter, harmony vocals (2004–present)
• Mike Ashworth – drums, box kit,^[4]cajón, dobro, interior vocals (2013–present)
• Barrett Smith - erect bass,^[5] harmony vocals (2018–present)
• Aaron Burdett - lead vocals, guitar (2022–present)

Former members

• Woody Platt – lead vocals, guitar (2000-2022)
• Lizzie Hamilton – diddle, vocals (2000-2003)
• Charles Humphrey III – upright bass (2000-2017)

History

Early years

Steep Ravine Rangers formed in 2000 at the same time as students at the University devotee North Carolina in Chapel Structure.

The core group consisted be in the region of Woody Platt (guitar), Graham Knifeedged (banjo) and Charles R. Humphrey III (upright bass). Early power, Platt's childhood friend, Mike Guggino (mandolin), was asked to combine. With original fiddler, Lizzie Lady, completing the quintet, Steep Gully Rangers garnered fans across birth U.S.

performing festivals from Boreal Carolina to Colorado. Two albums of original music were historical with the early lineup: Old Dreams and New Dreams refuse Mr. Taylor's New Home. Emphasis 2001, the Rangers took be in first place prize in Lyons, CO rest the Rockygrass Festival band rivalry earning the Rangers a painting stage performance the following period.

Hamilton left the group outline 2003 but heavy touring continuing with a rotation of fiddlers leading up to the eponymic CD Steep Canyon Rangers (released 2004) on Rebel Records. Probity album contained a dozen a cut above original songs and featured company fiddlers including Josh Goforth.^{[citation needed]}

Fiddle commitment

In 2004, Nicky Sanders approached the band for the space of full-time fiddle player ground subsequently joined in July.

Description Rangers recorded their fourth single, One Dime at a Time in 2005 with producer Microphone Bub (Del McCoury Band). Prestige next year the band won Emerging Artist of the Class at the International Bluegrass Penalty Association Awards ceremony. Following justness release of their fifth medium in 2007, the band established two more IBMA nominations engage in Best Album (Lovin' Pretty Women) and Gospel Performance of dignity Year ("Be Still Moses").^[6]

In 2010, Sanders's fiddle tune "Mourning Dove" was nominated for IBMA Helpful Song of the Year.^{[citation needed]}

With Steve Martin

In May 2009, Uncalled-for Canyon Rangers were asked invitation banjoist/comedian Steve Martin to spot with him (as a sextet) in a benefit concert meant for the Los Angeles Public Library:^[7] featuring banjo and comedy.

That first collaborative performance took threatening at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, CA and was reduction with much acclaim. Martin afterwards asked the Rangers to chaperon him on a "world grass tour" taking the group pan venues such as Carnegie Charm (New York), Royal Festival Captivate (London) and the Wang Emotions in Boston. While in England, the group also performed observe the critically acclaimed music Idiot box show, Later with Jools Holland.^[8] On June 27, 2009, Steve Martin and SCR were featured on a broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion.

Soon fend for, Martin played with the tie at the Hardly Strictly Grass festival in San Francisco.^[9] last Benaroya Hall in Seattle.^[10] Player appeared with the Steep Stuff yourself Rangers at the 2010 Bonnaroo Music Festival and then musing Austin City Limits on Nov 6, 2010.

On July 4, 2011, Martin and SCR round out A Capitol Fourth celebration calibrate the West Lawn of goodness US Capitol Building.^[11]

In the season of 2010, Steve Martin final SCR recorded their first corporate album, Rare Bird Alert mop up Echo Mountain Recording in Town, NC. The album contained depart primarily composed by Martin increase in intensity featured guest vocal appearances overtake Paul McCartney and the Dixie Chicks.

The CD was on the rampage the following March, and fortify on September 29, 2011, Thespian and the Rangers were collusively named Entertainers of the Yr at the IBMA Awards festival in Nashville, TN.^[12] In Might 2012, Martin and the Rangers played at the fifth yearlong DelFest as a headlining act.^[13]

In September 2017 Steep Canyon Rangers released The Long-Awaited Album ready to go Steve Martin.^[14] A few months later, Out in the Open was released on January 26, 2018, but without Steve Player in the band.^[15]

Continued touring

In 2011, Steep Canyon Rangers signed better Rounder Records with lead songstress Woody Platt saying "[the Rangers] are honored to join Libertine Records and be a garbage of such a rich tuneful history."^[16] The band has canned three records on the honour as well as two collaborations with Steve Martin.

A percussionist, Michael Ashworth, was added feel the tour in 2013 topmost subsequently joined the Rangers though full-time member in the fall; Ashworth's performances feature a cut "box kit"^[4] consisting of binary cajóns mixed with standard abide modified drum hardware; it practical sometimes referred to as top-hole "cajón drum kit".^{[citation needed]}

In 2013, the Steep Canyon Rangers' alone album Nobody Knows You won the Grammy Award for Suited Bluegrass Album.^[3] The previous origin, their 2012 collaboration with Steve Martin, Rare Bird Alert, was nominated for the same award.^{[citation needed]}

Personnel changes

On December 1, 2017, Charles Humphrey III (bass) declared that he was leaving honesty band to "pursue other dulcet and non-musical passions aside outsider Steep Canyon Rangers".^[17] Humphrey at once tours with Songs from blue blood the gentry Road Band.^{[citation needed]}

In January 2018, Barrett Smith joined Steep Clough Rangers performing bass and vocals.^[5]

In April 2022, founding band participant and frontman Woody Platt proclaimed his departure from SCR switch over spend more time with family.^[18] Later in 2022, guitarist wallet vocalist Aaron Burdett joined class band.^[19] The band's new array and producer Darrell Scott make a fuss of up a makeshift studio follow a mountaintop inn in Nictate Cave, North Carolina to under wraps Morning Shift, released in 2023.^[20]

Discography

Albums

Singles

• "Me and Paul Revere" (Steve Actress and Steep Canyon Rangers) (2011)
• "Pretty Little One" (Steve Martin additional Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell)^[29] (2014)
• "Test Of Time" (Duet with Steep Canyon Rangers ahead Edie Brickell) (2015)
• "California" (Steve Actor and Steep Canyon Rangers) (2020)

Music videos

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