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Guitariste
Bluegrass US né peter Hamilton Rowan, le 4 Juillet 1942 à Boston (Massachusetts).
A major
cult figure among progressive bluegrass aficionados, Peter Rowan participated in
a number of adventurous projects in the late '60s and '70s before embarking on a
highly productive solo career. Primarily a guitarist, Rowan also sang, yodeled,
and played various members of the mandolin family. He was born in 1942 and grew
up in Wayland, Massachusetts, near Boston; his parents and several relatives
were musicians, and he and his brothers Chris and Lorin grew up playing both
rock and bluegrass together.
Rowan also formed a Tex-Mex band called the Cupids in high school, and after
college he sang and played mandolin in the folk group the Mother Bay State
Entertainers, whom he joined in 1963. He also played with Jim Rooney and Bill
Keith, and in 1964 he joined Bill Monroe's
legendary Blue Grass Boys as a vocalist
and guitarist. He departed in 1967 to team up with mandolin virtuoso
David Grisman in the eclectic, progressive-minded folk-rock band Earth Opera,
who released two albums and often opened for the Doors. Rowan next moved to the
San Francisco Bay Area and joined
Seatrain, a bluegrass/rock hybrid outfit. He appeared on two albums over
1970-1971, then left to play with Jerry Garcia and Grisman in the bluegrass
group
Old & In The
Way, also joining Grisman in Muleskinner.
In 1975, Rowan teamed with his brothers Chris and Lorin in the progressive
bluegrass unit the Rowans, who released several acclaimed albums over the next
few years. Rowan also performed with Flaco Jimenez in Mexican Airforce and
issued his first two solo albums -- 1978's Peter Rowan and 1980's Medicine Trail
-- on Flying Fish. He issued the Tex-Mex project Texican Badman on Appaloosa in
1981 as well as an album with his Nashville-based group, the Wild Stallions. The
year 1982 brought The Walls of Time, the first in a long string of albums for
the Sugar Hill label that lasted well into the '90s.
Among the more notable, 1985's The First Whippoorwill was an affectionate
tribute to
Monroe, while 1988's New Moon Rising became the signature album of Rowan's
solo career, featuring some of his most popular material. Released in 1990, Dust
Bowl Children was a completely solo performance, while 1991's All on a Rising
Day continued his creative hot streak. Several more albums followed through
1996, including one, 1994's Tree on a Hill, that reunited him with Chris and
Lorin; another, 1996's Yonder, paired him with Dobro king Jerry Douglas for a
set of duets.
Rowan took a break from his solo career for a few years but continued to guest
on albums by other artists, including the Czech folk group Druha Trava. He
returned in 2002 with High Lonesome Cowboy, a collaborative effort with Don Edwards
for Shanachie that also featured Tony Rice
and Norman Blake. In 2004 Rowan
released You Were There for Me, a long overdue collaboration with Tony Rice
that resulted in another album in 2007 called Quartet.
The Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band issued the
Alison Brown-produced Legacy in 2010 with a quartet comprising Jody Stetcher,
Paul Knight, and Keith Little. Its guests included
Ricky Skaggs,
Del McCoury,
Gillian Welch, and David Rawlings. Old School, issued in 2013, brought
together surviving members of
Monroe's Blue Grass Boys with a new
generation of players who followed in the footsteps of that tradition. It was
followed later in the year by a raw compilation of Rowan's Trang & Groove, a
reggae, R&B, and bluegrass fusion project.
Back in 2006, producer John Chelew happened by Rowan's painting studio and heard
him play some some spiritually themed songs he'd performed live but had never
recorded. The producer booked time at the Record Plant in Sausalito and Rowan
and his band began laying down some of the songs. Further recording was done in
Los Angeles and New Orleans, with a slew of guests including bassist Jack Casady
and
Welch. The album was issued as Dharma Blues by Elk Run through Omnivore
Recordings in the summer of 2014.
http://www.myspace.com/peterrowan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rowan
Talents : Vocals, Songwriter, Yodeler, Guitar, Mandolin, Mandola, Saxophone
Style musical : Bluegrass, Folk, Acoustic Country
https://youtu.be/_uX_pvShT0Q (Rowan Brothers)
https://youtu.be/aLwYdmsNafY (Peter Rowan Band)
Years in activity :
| 1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 | 10 | 20 |
DISCOGRAPHY
Singles
| 10/1972 | SP COLUMBIA 4-45728 (US) | ROWAN BROTHERS - All Together / Lady Of Laughter |
| 05/1973 | SP COLUMBIA 4-45856 (US) | ROWAN BROTHERS - Hickory Day / Move On Down |
| 09/1975 | SP ASYLUM E 45281 (US) | ROWANS - Take It As It Comes / Thunder On The Mountain |
| 03/1976 | SP ASYLUM E 45308 (US) | ROWANS - Beggar In Blue Jeans / Here Today, Gone Tomorrow |
| 09/1976 | SP ASYLUM E 45347 (US) | ROWANS - If I Only Could / Tired Hands |
| 1977 | SP ASYLUM E 45376 (US) | ROWANS - Ooh My Love / Mongolian Swamp / All The King's Men |
Albums
| 09/1972 | LP 12" COLUMBIA KC-31297 (US) |
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THE ROWAN BROTHERS - The ROWAN BROTHERS - Hickory Day / All Together / Best You Can / One More Time / Lay Me Down / Wizard / Mama Don't You Cry / Gold / Love Will Conquer / Lady Of Laughter / Move On Down / Singin' Song | ||
| 1975 | LP 12" ASYLUM 7E-1038 (US) |
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ROWANS - The ROWANS - Take It As It Comes / Midnight-Moonlight / Me Loving You / Old Silver / Thunder On The Mountain / Beggar In Blue Jeans / Do Right / Man-Woman / Pieces On The Ground / Here Today, Gone Tomorrow | ||
| 1976 | LP 12" ASYLUM 7E-1073 (US) |
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SIBLING RIVALRY - The ROWAN BROTHERS - Ooh My Love / Love Is / Tired Hands / If I Only Could / No Desanimes Amor (Don't Disappoint Love) / Ya Ba Da Ba / Fire Dragon / Mongolian Swamp - King's Men / Joaquin Murrieta / Sword Of Faith - Soldier Of The Cross | ||
| 1977 | LP 12" ASYLUM 7E-1114 (US) |
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JUBILATION - The ROWANS - Best Of Friends / Give Ya Good Lovin' / Hoo Doo Love / Love's Secret Sighs / Don't Say Goodbye / Lovelight / New Horizons / Makin' It Easy / Calle Music | ||
| 10/1978 | LP 12" FLYING FISH FF-071 (US) |
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PETER ROWAN - Outlaw Love / Break My Heart Again / A Woman In Love / When I Was A Cowboy / Land Of The Navajo / The Free Mexican Airforce / Panama Red / Midnite Moonlite / The Gypsy King's Farewell | ||
| 04/1980 | LP 12" FLYING FISH FF-205 (US) |
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MEDICINE TRAIL - Riding High In The Sky / My Foolish Pride / River Of Stone / Revelation / Living On The Line (with Laura EASTMAN) / Medicine Trail / Blues Come Bother Me / Dreaming I Love You / Maui Momma / Prairie Lullabye | ||
| 1980 | LP 12" APPALOOSA APP-010 (I) |
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TEXICAN BADMAN - Sweet Melinda / Four Corners / A Vacant Sea / I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You) / Squeeze Box Man / Texican Badman / What Of Alicia / While The Ocean Roars / Awake My Love / On The Blue Horizon | ||
| 1981 | LP 12" APPALOOSA APP-016 (I) |
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THE WILD STALLIONS - Peter ROWAN & The Wild STALLIONS - I Can't Get Mellow / The Hotter She Burns / Fool Myself Again / Baby Let's Play House / Call It Love / A Woman In Love / Cries Of Love / Refugee / Sheila / Rendezvous / Primavera Dell'amore | ||
| 01/1982 | LP 12" SUGAR HILL SH-3722 (US) |
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THE WALLS OF TIME - Roving Gambler / Lone Pilgrim / Raglan Road (Dawning Of The Day) / Going Up On The Mountain / Casey's Last Ride / Old, Old House / Hiroshima Mon Amour / Willow Garden / Moonshiner / Thirsty In The Rain / Walls Of Time / Plains Of Waterloo | ||
| 1983 | LP 12" Waterfront WF 012 (UK) |
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Revelry - Peter Rowan And Tex Logan And Greg Douglass - The Holy Wells Of Ireland / Maelstrom / Sitting On Top Of The World / Rising O' The Bones / Lovesick Blues / Talkin Bluegrass - Black Mountain Juice / Mansion On The Hill / When I Was A Cowboy / No Place Like Home | ||
| 03/1984 | LP 12" SUGAR HILL SH-3733 (US) |
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PETER ROWAN WITH THE RED HOT PICKERS - Hobo Song / Old, Old House / Willow Garden / Jimmie Brown, The Newsboy / Wild Bill Jones / Hiroshima Mon Amour / Come All Ye Tender-Hearted / Oh, Susannah / Rosalie McFall / A Good Woman's Love | ||
| 08/1985 | LP 12" WATERFRONT WF 016 (UK) |
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Rowan, Keith & Rooney - PETER ROWAN, BILL KEITH & JIM ROONEY - Blue Ridge Mountain Blues / Riding High in Texas / Outlaw Love - Texican Badman / Caravan / Midnight Moonlight / Sleep With One Eye Open / Flint Hill Special / Tennessee Blues / Auld Lang Syne |
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| 10/1985 | LP 12" SUGAR HILL SH-3749 (US) |
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THE FIRST WHIPPOORWILL - I'm On My Way Back To The Old Home / I'm Just A Used To Be / I Believed In You, Darling / Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall / I Was Left On The Street / Goodbye Old Pal / When You Are Lonely / The First Whippoorwill / Sittin' Alone In The Moonlight / Boat Of Love / It's Mighty Dark To Travel | ||
| 06/1988 | LP 12" SUGAR HILL SH-3762 (US) |
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NEW MOON RISING - Peter ROWAN & The NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND - That High Lonesome Sound / Trail Of Tears / Memories Of You / A Moth To A Flame / I'm Gonna Love You (Like There's No Tomorrow) / One Way / New Moon Rising / Jesus Made The Wine / Cabin Of Love / Meadow Green | ||
| 06/1990 | CD SUGAR HILL SH-CD-3781 (US) |
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DUST BOWL CHILDREN - Dust Bowl Children / Before The Streets Were Paved / Electric Blanket / Little Mother / Barefoot Country Road / Seeds My Daddy Sowed / Tumbleweed / Dream Of A Home / Rainmaker / Forest For The Trees / The Harvest / Wings Of Horses | ||
| 05/1991 | CD SUGAR HILL SH-CD-3791 (US) |
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ALL ON A RISING DAY - Midnight Highway / Last Train / Howlin' At The Moon / Mr. Time Clock / Behind These Prison Walls Of Love / Deal With The Devil / Undying Love / The Wheel Of Fortune / All On A Rising Day / Freedom Walkabout / Prayer Of A Homeless Wanderer / John O'Dreams | ||
| 04/1993 | CD SUGAR HILL SHCD-3807 (US) |
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AWAKE ME IN A NEW WORLD - Shaman's Vision / Dreams Of The Sea / Pulcinella Sails Away / Caribbean Woman / Dance With No Shoes / Sugar Cane / For Gods, For Kings & For Gold / Awake Me In The New World / All My Relations / Remember That I Love You / Maria De Las Rosas / African Banjo / Sailing Home / Dance Of Pulcinella | ||
| 1994 | CD SUGAR HILL SHCD-3823 (US) |
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TREE ON THE HILL - Peter ROWAN & The ROWAN BROTHERS - Tree On A Hill / Man Of Constant Sorrow / Little Darlin' Pal Of Mine / No Lonesome Tune / Rye Whiskey / Fair And Tender Ladies / Faith, Love And Devotion / Long Time / Lone Pilgrim / I'll Be There / Mary Magdalene | ||
| 04/1996 | CD SUGAR HILL SHCD-3847 (US) |
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YONDER - Jerry DOUGLAS & Peter ROWAN - Wayside Tavern / Cannon Ball Blues / Lullaby Of The Leaves / Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues / Texas Rangers / Can't Get There From Here / Tribulations / When You And I Were Young, Maggie / Girl In The Blue Velvet Band / Chicka-Li-Lee-O / You Taught Me How To Lose / Where Angels Weep | ||
| 09/1996 | CD SUGAR HILL SHCD-3859 (US) |
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BLUEGRASS BOY - Nighttime / Wild Geese Cry Again / A Jealous Heart And A Worried Mind / Will Work For Food / Stable Boy Blues / The Green Willow / Let The Harvest Go To Seed / Ruby Ridge / Pretty Little Blanco River Waltz / Weep Not For The Dead / Pure White Sail / Bluegrass Boy | ||
| 09/2002 | CD SHANACHIE CD-6058 (US) |
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HIGH LONESOME COWBOY - Peter ROWAN & Don EDWARDS - Take Me Back To The Range / The Old Chisholm Trail / Ramblin' Cowboy / Reno Blues / The Old Grey Mare Came Tearing Our Of The Wilderness / Trail To Mexico / The Night Guard / Buddies In The Saddle / Goodbye Old Paint / Midnight On The Stormy Deep / I'm Going To Leave Texas Now | ||
| 02/2003 | CD THERE 0005 (US) |
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CRAZY PEOPLE - The ROWANS - Crazy People / Nothin' Personal / Red Rockin' Chair / Pretty Senorita / Don't Pick The Blossom Before The Flower Grows / Free Mexican Airforce / That's Alright (Long Time) / In 1999 / Shoppin' Feet / Ain't Nothin' Like A Family | ||
| 04/2004 | CD COLLECTOR'S CHOICE 423 (US) |
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SIBLING RIVALRY / JUBILATION - The ROWANS - Ooh My Love / Love Is / Tired Hands / If I Only Could / No Desanimes Amor (Don't Disappoint Love) / Ya Ba Da Ba / Fire Dragon / Mongolian Swamp - King's Men / Joaquin Murrieta / Sword Of Faith - Soldier Of The Cross / Best Of Friends / Give Ya Good Lovin' / Hoo Doo Love / Love's Secret Sighs / Don't Say Goodbye / Lovelight / New Horizons / Makin' It Easy / Calle Music | ||
| 09/2004 | CD ROUNDER 11661-0441-2 (US) |
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YOU WERE THERE FOR ME - Peter ROWAN & Tony RICE - You Were There For Me / Tin Roof Shack / Shirt Off My Back / Miss Liberty (Lay My Lonesome Down) / Cowboys And Indians / Ahmed The Beggar Boy / Angel Island / Ain't That Just Like You / Come Back To Old Santa Fe / Wild Mustang | ||
| 09/2004 | 2 CD BOS MUSIC 1578 (US) |
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NOW & THEN :
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| 2005 | CD THERE 801097007 (US) |
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REGGAEBILLY ! - Pulling The Devil By The Tail / Little Maggie / Angel Island / I Don't Want To Live Without Your Love / The Cuckoo Bird / Blue Mountain (Every Man) / Sky Dancer / Vulture Peak (Form And Emptiness) / Fetch Wood Carry Water / Fetch Wood Carry Water [dub version] | ||
| 2006 | CD THERE 8 (US) |
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CRUCIAL COUNTRY - LIVE AT TELLURIDE - Deal With The Devil [live] / Howlin' At The Moon [live] / The Walls Of Time [live] / Tumbleweed [live] / Panama Red [live] / Rainmaker [live] / Wings Of Horses [live] / No Woman No Cry [live] / Land Of The Navajo [live] / Ancient Tones [live] | ||
| 01/2007 | CD ROUNDER 11661-0579-2 (US) |
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QUARTET - Peter ROWAN & Tony RICE - Dust Bowl Children / To Live Is To Fly / The Walls Of Time / Shady Grove / Moonlight Midnight / Trespasses / The Sunny Side Of The Mountain / Cold Rain And Snow / Guardian Angles / Let The Harvest Go To Seed / Perfection | ||
| 07/2007 | CD SUGAR HILL SHCD-4035 (US) |
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BEST OF THE SUGAR HILL YEARS - That High Lonesome Sound (with The NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND) / A Jealous Heart And A Worried Mind / Walls Of Time / Dust Bowl Children / Girl In The Blue Velvet Band (with Jerry DOUGLAS) / All On A Rising Day / Hiroshima Mon Amour / Rainmaker / The First Whippoorwill / You Taught Me How To Lose (with Jerry DOUGLAS) / Memories Of You (with The NASHVILLE BLUEGRASS BAND) / Last Train / Howlin' At The Moon / Wild Geese Cry Again / Meadow Green | ||
| 2009 | CD Roots Collectibles RCCD 2 (UK) |
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The Free Mexican Airforce - Outlaw Love / Break My Heart Again / A Woman In Love / When I Was A Cowboy / Land Of The Navajo / The Free Mexican Airforce / Panama Red / Midnite Moonlight / The Gypsy King's Farewell / Riding High In Texas / My Foolish Pride / River Of Stone / Revelation / Medicine Trail / Dreaming I Love You / Maui Momma / Prairie Lullabye | ||
| 09/2010 | CD Compass COM 45432 (US) |
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Legacy - Peter Rowan & Nashville Bluegrass Band - Jailer Jailer / The Family Demon / Father, Mother / The Raven / So Good / The Night Prayer / Catfish Blues / Turn The Other Cheek / God's Own Child / Don't Ask Me Why / Let Me Walk Lord By Your Side / Lord Hamilton's Yearling / Across The Rolling Hills (Padmasambhava) | ||
| 2013 | CD Compass COM 46002 (US) |
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The Old School - Keepin' It Between The Lines (Old School) (Peter ROWAN feat: Jesse McReynolds / Bobby Osborne / The Rules) / That's All She Wrote / True Love To Last / Ragged Old Dream / Doc Watson Morning / Drop The Bone / Letter From Beyond / Stealin' My Time / A Mountain Man's Dream / My Savior Is Callin' Me / O Freedom / Keepin' It Between The Lines (Old School) (Reprise) (Peter ROWAN feat: The Gibson Brothers / Bobby Osborne / Don Rigsby / The Rules / Eddie Stubbs) | ||
| 07/2014 | CD Omnivore OVCD 82 (US) |
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Dharma Blues - River Of Time / Raven (Peter Rowan feat: Gillian Welch) / Dharma Blues / My Love Will Never Change / Wisdom Woman / Arise / Restless Grave (Peter Rowan feat: Gillian Welch) / Vulture Peak / Who Will Live / Snow Country Girl (Peter Rowan feat: Gillian Welch) / Illusion's Fool / A Grain Of Sand | ||
| 05/2017 | CD Omnivore OVCD 219 (US) |
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My Aloha! - My Blue Hula Girl / Jerry In The Deep Blue Sea / Sunny At Sunrise / Lotus Flower / My Aloha (Appalachian Mountain Home) / Tsuki-Chan / The Waltz Of Waikiki / A Man Of Time And Tides / Two Ships In The Night / Uncle Jimmy / Sunny At Sunrise (reprise) |
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