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Name: Eddie Adcock
Group: Country Gentlemen Reunion Band
Date: Thursday April 10th, 2008
Time: 5:00pm EDT
Website: Not Available
Interviewer: Uncle Billy Dunbar
Description:
Eddie Adcock has performed for over 40 years in the music business. He was born and raised in Scottsville, VA in 1938. Eddie started playing banjo when he was a mere 5 years old. He left home when he was a teen and held numerous jobs, including boxing to pay the bills but he always played music at night. Eddie has teamed with numerous musicians throughout his career starting in 1953 when he joined Smokey Graves & His Blue Star Boys. This group had a regular show at a radio station in Crewe, VA. The stint with Graves led to jobs with other musicians, including Mac Wiseman, Bill Harrell, and Buzz Busby. Bill Monroe asked him to join the Bluegrass Boys in ’57 and he played a short time with them. He returned to day jobs until Jim Cox, John Duffey, and Charlie Waller asked him to join their new band, The Country Gentlemen. The Country Gentlemen originated in the Washington, DC. The band’s original members were Charlie Waller on guitar and lead vocals, John Duffey on mandolin and tenor vocals, Bill Emerson on banjo and baritone vocals, and Larry Lahey on bass. Soon after Adcock's arrival the band settled into a somewhat permanent lineup consisting of Waller, Duffey, Eddie Adcock on banjo, and Tom Gray on bass. The Country Gentlemen became one of the most popular and respected bluegrass bands of the late '50s and '60s, as well as one of the most progressive. They expanded the repertoire of bluegrass bands to include contemporary country, folk, and rock songwriters. Eddie quit The Country Gentlemen in 1970 and moved to California, where he formed a country-rock band called The Clinton Special. The band recorded only one single, "Just as You Are I Love You"/"Blackberry Fence," which was released on MGM Records. In 1973 he met Martha whom he would marry 3 years later. They have been partners in music and business for over 3 decades now. These days he mostly performs with his wife, Martha. Eddie and Martha now concentrate on performing as a duo, as well as doing some concerts with Tom Gray and a few shows with Adcock-Gaudreau-Waller & Gray: (The Country Gentlemen Reunion Band), and on producing themselves and others both outside and in-house at their own SunFall Studio. Eddie and Martha AKA The Adcocks have appeared on many television shows. They have released a number of popular recordings, appearing on several Bluegrass, Americana, college, rock, and Country charts.
After nearly 40 years in the music business, Eddie Adcock remained as popular as he ever was, touring all around the world.
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