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Name: Robert Earl Davis
Group: The Earl Brothers
Date: Friday October 31st, 2008
Time: 1:00pm EST
Website: www.earlbrothers.com
Interviewer: Gracie Muldoon
Description:
ROBERT EARL DAVIS is the band leader for The Earl Brothers. Born in Richmond Virginia, He started playing the banjo and singing at the age of 13. At the age of 15 he played Banjo for The Virginia Gentlemen at Carlton Haney’s Roanoke Labor Day Bluegrass Festival at Fincastle , Va. held at Cantrell’s Horse Farm September 3–5, 1965 . It is widely recognized as the first multiple day Bluegrass Festival. THE EARL BROTHERS perform Original Hillbilly Mountain Music. The band’s “less is more” approach to songwriting, singing, and musicianship will make you stop whatever you’re doing and take notice. For those who remember the first time they heard the high-lonesome sound of Bill Monroe or the otherworldly harmonies of the Stanley Brothers, that same thrill of discovery is being created again by the Earl Brothers. Unlike other traditional bluegrass bands that seek to re-create the music of the original bluegrass masters, the Earl Brothers are blazing their own trail, extending the genre, while staying within the gritty tradition that started in the 1940s and 50s. Listeners are left with a mix of exhilaration and bewilderment upon their first exposure to this new-yet-old form of music. In the short time since the release of their third album, Moonshine (the eagerly anticipated follow-up to 2006’s Troubles to Blame and 2004’s Whiskey, Women & Death), The Earl Brothers have received an overwhelmingly enthusiastic response from music-lovers, festival promoters, radio DJs, and music journalists across the country and abroad. CD orders and radio requests have been tumbling in from such far-flung locales as Australia , Belgium , France , Japan , the Netherlands , New Zealand , and even New York City ! |
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