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Last Updated: 12/3/2009

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Status: Married
City: LOS ANGELES
State: California
Country: US
Signup Date: 4/12/2006
Saturday, January 10, 2009 
PRESS RELEASE

John McEuen -
In another busy year, John completed three documentary films music scores (“Sizzle - A Global Warming Comedy;” “Maynard Dixon - Art and Spirit”; “Howard's Trail”), went on the road solo (about 48 cities) and in his 42nd year with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (42 cities). Also, Capitol Records just released a remake of Mr. Bojangles by NGDB with Keith Urban and Dierks Bentley!. And, McEuen's XM radio show (Acoustic Traveller - channel 15) begins its 4th year.

Last summer McEuen produced an album for his lifelong friend, actor Steve Martin.  All Martin's original music and lyrics - for release in 2009 - John says "the Steve album is great! People will be shocked at how vast and varied is music is, and how great he plays… this album will show Steve as a composer of unique hot licks and soulful lyrics.  He is definitely a songwriter with an unusual twist for notes and lyrics; and, in the 45 years I've known him, I've never heard him playing better. I am working with the Chaplin of our era”

Martin's album (a dozen instrumentals and four vocals) features such diverse musician talents as Earl Scruggs, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Tony Trishka, Pete Wernick, McEuen, David Amram, Craig Eastman. Vince Gill duets with Dolly Parton on Pretty Flowers, Ireland's Mary Black sings Calico Train, Tim O'Brien sings Daddy Played the Banjo), and Steve sings Late for School.  John brings together traditional folk instruments to Steve's world of notes where you hear combined influences from their mutual past  - Disneyland, Knott's Berry Farm, The Music Man, Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring, and bluegrass - in way that “will  take the music world by surprise”, says producer McEuen.

You can catch John McEuen on the road (with banjo, guitar, fiddle, and mandolin) for his highly acclaimed solo performances or with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. He brings to his solo stage songs from road years and recordings, including early NGDB tunes and the historic Will the Circle Be Unbroken album (you can see some of his early wardrobe and the banjo used on that historic recording in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame exhibit) and from his own CDs on Rural Rhythm Records and Vanguard Records. 

               Check it all out at www.johnmceuen.com
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