Eddie Adcock – The Most Awesome Country Music Guitar Personality Ever!

Eddie Adcock – The Most Awesome Country Music Guitar Personality Ever!

Article by Auburn Walker

Guitar performer and five-string banjo virtuoso Eddie Adcock has been one of bluegrass music’s greatest and most innovative performers for more than 40 years. He cut his musical teeth with Bill Monroe and Mac Wiseman, and as one-third of the groundbreaking trio The Country Gentlemen Eddie was the initial internationally acclaimed five-string bluegrass banjo performer to play at Carnegie Hall and soon afterwards released his first collection books of country guitar tabs and country guitar tablatures.

Since then his work with his wife, Martha Adcock, has garnered three Grammy nominations and appearances at the Kennedy Center and on a lot of syndicated and local TV and radio shows. Eddie has been named “Instrumentalist of The Year” (Major Independent Record Label Awards ceremony) and “Entertainer of The Year” (International Bluegrass Music Association). The original Country Gentlemen have lately been inducted into the IBMA’s internationally-acclaimed Hall of Honor.

Three time Grammy nominee Eddie Adcock has charmed all types of crowds throughout the U. S., Canada and Europe with his bluegrass and acoustic country songs, with rave critiques, considerably press and serious airplay around the world. He was married in 1976 and now lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his spouse Martha.

Cashbox Magazine calls him “a great musician and vocalist,” and Billboard has called him “one of the Bluegrass circuit’s top acts.” He has taken his sunny, witty, high-energy music from local clubs to the Kennedy Center. Combining authentic Travis-style fingerpicking with lightning fast bluegrass runs, Eddie gets as exciting a guitar sound as you’ll hear anywhere! His progressive guitar techniques include right hand banjo rolls, complex slides, pull-offs and hammer-ons, and alternating thumb index finger combinations to name but a few.Eddie Adcock has performed on “Austin City Limits,” TNN’s “Nashville Now” and “Wildhorse Saloon,” NPR specials, and a lot of syndicated and local TV and radio shows. His video, Dog, attained airplay on TNN, CMT, and also CNN. He released a variety of popular albums, appearing on several bluegrass and country charts.

Eddie Adcock features a lot of his own original tunes, both vocal songs and instrumentals, showcasing his robust, expressive style and somehow sounding like more than himself. Focus calls his tunes “ensnaring.” Woven in and amongst his uniquely-styled tunes are influences from bluegrass, country, folk, jazz, blues, rock and roll, gospel, and rockabilly, transcending into a distinctive and heady sound, part of the past, present, and surely the future! And his warm yet edgy style and uninhibited stage persona is a real treat.

Eddie’s zany stage humor might in the beginning belie the fact that he is an influential, revolutionary stylist on guitar and banjo – plain and simple: a superpicker! He has been one of Bluegrass music’s greatest and most innovative performers for more than 40 years. Country Music Magazine calls Eddie Adcock’s playing and instrumental influence “legendary.” Viewed as the originator of a recognized style of playing, he was the first internationally acclaimed 5-string bluegrass banjoist to appear at Carnegie Hall – as spark plug in The Country Gentlemen. In the course of Eddie’s 12-year tenure with them from 1958 to 1970, they were the group who transformed bluegrass and took it uptown. In his early days, Eddie was a fellow member of Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys, remembered by Bill as becoming his favorite baritone singer.

Eddie Adcock belongs to a number of business enterprise organizations, which includes IBMA and the Folk Alliance. He has worked on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Banjo Institute. He also runs Adcock Audio, a large, state-of-the-art sound company. And he maintains a vast mailing list in order to stay in touch with deejays, press, and fans.

Question by Wishing for Nashville: What should I wear to the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville?
I’m fifteen but I look like I’m 18. I want to have a good time. I’m from Canada. I’ve been horseback riding since I was 5, western of course! I’m pretty country. I want to look like a cowgirl…a real cowgirl going out for the night, not some tourist trying to pull it off with the complete wrong impression. What should I wear? I’m definately going to be out on the dance floor line dancing. I know I’m over thinking this. Any help is appreciated!

Thanks

Best answer:

Answer by brendan- da man and da myth
- I luv a cute woman in a cowboy hat – yeehaw !!!!

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