Peter Rowan
Peter Rowan (born July 4, 1942) is an American bluegrass musician and composer. Rowan plays guitar and mandolin, yodels and sings.
Biography
Rowan was born in Boston, Massachusetts. From an early age, he had an interest in music and eventually learned to play the guitar. At the age of twelve, he heard Elvis Presley for the first time and later, in junior high school, he formed a rockabilly band, the Cupids. Influenced by the blues musician Eric Von Schmidt, Rowan traded his electric guitar for an acoustic and began to play the blues. He was also influenced by the folk sound of Joan Baez. In college, he discovered bluegrass after hearing The Country Gentlemen and The Stanley Brothers. He soon discovered the music of Bill Monroe, and with some help from banjo player Bill Keith, he was invited to Nashville to audition for Monroe. Accompanied by Keith, Rowan went to Nashville and was hired in March 1965 as guitarist and lead vocalist of Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. His recording debut as a "bluegrass boy" took place on October 14, 1966 and he recorded a total of fourteen songs with Monroe before his tenure ended in the spring of 1967.
Peter Rowan (album)
Peter Rowan is the first solo album by the country rock / bluegrass musician Peter Rowan. Guest musicians are Peter's brother Lorin Rowan (piano), Flaco Jimenez (accordion), and Richard Greene (fiddle).
Track listing
All tracks composed by Peter Rowan; except where indicated
Personnel
Podcasts:
Peter Rowan
ALBUMS
- Quartet released: 2007
- You Were There for Me released: 2004
- New Freedom Bell released: 2003
- Yonder released: 1996
- With the Red Hot Pickers released: 1995
- Awake Me in the New World released: 1993
- Medicine Trail released: 1992
- All on a Rising Day released: 1991
- Texican Badman released: 1981
- Peter Rowan released: 1978
- 1999-02-21: Mystic Theatre, Petaluma, CA, USA released:
- The Walls of Time released:
- The First Whippoorwill released:
- Bluegrass Boy released:
- Reggaebilly released:
- Dust Bowl Children released:
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
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That High Lonesome Sound
by: Peter RowanWell, get your Mama, get your Papa,
Get your sister, get your brother,
Aunt Lucy'sa gonna show Uncle John,
How to do the boogie-woogie,
While the kissin' cousins dosie-do,
Until the break of dawn.
Y'all come with one another,
Just to do a little pickin',
Everybody now gather round.
The camp fire's burnin'
An' tonight my heart is yearnin',
For the sight of that old camp ground.
And that high lonesome sound,
When that evenin' sun goes down.
We're gonna dance right off the ground,
When I hear the fiddle play that high lonesome sound.
Yeah, come on over, baby,
Now, I'm sure we're gonna have some fun,
Enjoyin' the country view.
Toe-tappin' syncopated,
Music playin' loud,
An' the girls are lookin' mighty pretty too.
Look at ol' Grand Pappy,
He's feelin' kinda snappy,
It seems like he just don't care.
He's over 93,
He's as spry as you or me,
Just dancin' to the music in the air.
It's that high lonesome sound,
When that evenin' sun goes down.
I'm gonna dance right off the ground,
When I hear the fiddle play that high lonesome sound.
Instrumental break.
Yeah, well yonder comes a mandolin.
And the banjo's right in tune.
Yeah, the bull thud is slappin' leather.
I'm howlin' at the moon.
Hey, Mr Fiddle Man, play us all a little jam.
Yeah, that's the wing on rose sample,
Give us a hint that they're ridin' on the back of a mule.
It's that high lonesome sound,
When that evenin' sun goes down.
I'm gonna dance right off the ground,
When I hear the fiddle play that high lonesome sound.