jammed if i do, houston chronicle vancouver folk festival
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Dan Crary | Thunderation Music 039
DAN CRARYThunderation Music, Inc
1390 Broadway, Suite B101, Placerville, CA 95667Tel: 530-622-6228 / Cell: [email protected] / dancrary.com
Renaissance of theSteel String Guitar
Holiday GuitarJammed If I DoThunderation
Bluegrass GuitarTake a Step Over
GuitarSweet Southern Girl
Lady’s Fancywith Dan Crary & Thunderation
Perfect Storm
with Men of SteelLive: Men of SteelFour Way Mirror
with Beppe GambettaSynergia
with Lonnie HoppersCrary & Hoppers andtheir American Band
with CaliforniaTraveler
with BCHChambergrass
Now They Are FourBCH
Night RunBerline, Crary & Hickman
IBMA “Best Liner Notes” (CHAMBERGRASS)
NDIE “Best Seasonal Album” (HOLIDAY GUITAR)
NAIRD INDIE “Best String Instrumental Album”IBMA “Best Instrumental Group”
Strictly Country 1st Place Guitar AwardIntl Ambassador of Country Music, AustralAsian Country MusicFrets Annual Readers Poll, 1st Place Guitar Award
Listen to sound clips at DanCrary.com.
Renaissance of the Steel String Guitar
“Incredible dexterity and tongue-in-cheek humor . . . must be heard to be believed.”
Guitar Player
“. . . Dan’s guitar work is mind-boggling . . . ”Houston Chronicle
“Dan Crary is one of the top three or four guitarists of our time; perhaps the best flatpicker around.”
Vancouver Folk Festival
“. . . a premier instrumentalist . . . ”Indianapolis Daily News
“He was hardly a minute into the show when he let fly with racing licks that sounded like the
fretboard equivalent of Fred Astaire dancing up, then down a staircase.”
Los Angeles Times
DISCOGRAPHY
REVIEW QUOTES
AWARDS
CONTACT INFORMATION
He is a musical legend, a pioneer of one of the most intricate, yet powerful, forms of American music, and a master of the guitar; he’s Dan Crary, a flatpicking stylist with an international reputation for innovation, taste and brilliance. As he passes his
40th anniversary as a performer, Crary is one of the few artists whose work can be said to transcend boundaries of style and genre.
A long and distinguished recording career, featuring solo projects and group efforts and many guest appearances, have brought Dan acclaim as a versatile performer able to range from Mozart to Anglo-American fiddle tunes to moody, evocative original compositions. Jammed If I Do, with guests Tony Rice, Doc Watson, Norman Blake, and Beppe Gambetta, was hailed as one of the decade’s great gatherings of guitarists, and his albums have garnered awards and rave reviews.
As a solo artist, Dan has created a performance style that blends traditional material from a variety of American sources with original compositions, and vocals with instrumental showcases, all woven together with stories and observations that share his experience and insights with the audience. His ability to connect both musically and personally has brought him success not only in North
America but throughout the world, with concert and workshop appearances from Europe to Japan and the South Pacific. In a time when yesterday’s stars are all too often today’s unknowns, and genres are picked up and discarded quickly, it’s a rare career that encompasses multiple styles and decades while remaining fresh and exciting. If consistency, creativity, and longevity are hallmarks of artistic achievement, then Dan Crary must be recognized as one of the greatest traditional artists of our day.