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Bush got his first mandolin in 1964 at age 11, a Gibson A-50 model. A year or so later, in response to an advertisement in Sing Out! magazine, 13-year-old Sam attended the first multi-day bluegrass festival which was held in Fincastle, Virginia. The main impetus for his attending was to be around other mandolin players.
Sam Bush. Sam Bush extended the musical capabilities of the mandolin and the fiddle to incorporate a seamless blend of bluegrass, rock, jazz, and reggae. As the founder and leader of the New Grass Revival, Bush pioneered and guided the evolution of modern hill country music. Together with the bluegrass supergroup Strength in Numbers, he pushed ...
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Jun 15, 2023 · It’s fitting that the only longer relationship leaping to Bush’s mind is his 50 years with Ol’ Hoss, his 1937 Gibson F-5 mandolin that he got from Norman Blake in 1973. “As far as festivals, this is the only one,” Bush told the Planet from his home in Tennessee, a few days before starting his annual trek to the Telluride Bluegrass ...
Oct 5, 2018 · A lifelong bluegrass fan, his interests and foci include music, culture, and politics. He is a staff writer for Western Connecticut State University's campus news site, The Echo. The image of Sam Bush on stage—spry, copper, shoulder-length hair bouncing as notes cascade from his F-5, “Hoss—is a familiar one to festival goers everywhere.
Apr 21, 2023 · He took home three-straight IBMA Mandolin Player of the Year awards, 1990-92, and a fourth in 2007. So too, over the span of his ultra-successful solo career, he’s released seven albums and a live DVD. Not surprisingly then, in 2009, the Americana Music Association awarded Bush the Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist.
Feb 12, 2019 · Written, produced, and directed by Wayne Franklin and Kris Wheeler, Revival, which has garnered its fair share of well-deserved accolades and awards, chronicles Sam Bush’s life, and that of his bandmates, as they worked their way up against an initially reluctant industry that had no idea what to make of a band that turned up the volume while bucking tradition.
Feb 27, 2020 · Sam Bush and the Sam Bush Band take the stage at Strings Music Festival on March 3. STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — “Father of Newgrass” Sam Bush is a legend. He founded the progressive bluegrass group New Grass Revival, which ushered the genre into mainstream music. After 18 years with New Grass Revival throughout the ’70s and ’80s, Bush brought ...
