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Ron Block heard a variety of music at an early age because his father owned a music store, Hogan's House of Music, in southern California. At home he was drawn to the bluegrass music of Bill Monroe, J. D. Crowe, and The Stanley Brothers. At the age of 13, after seeing Earl Scruggs on TV, he learned to play the banjo. In his teens he also ...
Official channel of Ron Block of Alison Krauss & Union Station.Banjo, guitar, vocals, songwriting, teaching.
Walking Song reflects their shared sense of creative freedom both lyrically and musically. Tunes like the Celtic-tinged “Let There Be Beauty,” the country-slanted “Ivy," and the poignant “Colors” match Reynolds’ rich, vivid lyrics with Block’s fine-etched melodies to entrancing effect.
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Fourteen-time Grammy winning banjoist and guitarist Ron Block, 24-year veteran of Alison Krauss & Union Station, steps out to record a collection of romping bluegrass instrumentals. He combines brand new originals and older tunes from some of his musical heroes, like Earl Scruggs, J.D. Crowe, Ralph Stanley, Art Stamper, and Stephen Foster.
2018 - Damien O'Kane & Ron Block - Banjophony, some of the most fun and joyful music I've ever made, with Irish tenor banjo wizard Damien O'Kane. 2019 - A Light So Fair: Peaceful Guitar Instrumentals, an album of compositions I made up on peaceful mornings. It's designed to give the listener a sense of peace.
Jul 23, 2013 · The music on Walking Song is as brilliant as Ron Block’s listeners would expect, and the lyrics are as brilliant as Rebecca Reynolds’ readers would expect. Rebecca has a gift for writing lyrics that sound old without sounding contrived. Of the eleven original songs on the album, six or seven marry traditional-sounding music with traditional ...
Ron Block - BIO. Throughout his life – and certainly throughout his extraordinary career – multi-instrumentalist Ron Block has been something of a musical Huck Finn, a tireless adventurer exploring various styles yet rooted firmly in the bluegrass-country tradition. Now the longtime member of the Grammy-winning band Alison Krauss and Union ...
