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Origin
  

Name
  
Russ Barenberg

Occupation(s)
  
Musician, Composer

Role
  
Musician

Years active
  
1970–present

Education
  
Cornell University

Website
  
www.russbarenberg.com


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Born
  
October 8, 1950 (age 73) (
1950-10-08
)

Instruments
  
Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin

Albums
  
Skip, Hop & Wobble, Moving Pictures, When at Last

Genres
  
Bluegrass, Traditional bluegrass

Similar People
  
Jerry Douglas, Edgar Meyer, Jay Ungar, Tony Trischka, Molly Mason

Profiles

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Russ Barenberg (born October 8, 1950) is a Grammy-nominated American bluegrass musician.

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Biography

Barenberg began playing guitar at age 13, taking lessons from Alan Miller, whose brother, John Miller, Barenberg would later play with. His style was heavily influenced by the flatpicking technique of Clarence White. He attended Cornell University and met Pete Wernick there in 1968. Together they joined to form Country Cooking, who released two albums of bluegrass before breaking up in 1975.

In 1975 Barenberg briefly began playing electric guitar with a jazz rock group, Carried Away. Late in 1975 he quit playing music, but returned in 1977, moving to New York City to play in the group Heartlands. This group also played backup on Barenberg's debut solo effort, Cowboy Calypso, in 1980. He then moved to Boston, teaching at the Music Emporium in Cambridge. Here he played in the groups Fiddle Fever and Laughing Hands.

In 1986 Barenberg moved to Nashville, where he has played often with Jerry Douglas and Maura O'Connell, and done much work as a session musician with Béla Fleck, Hazel Dickens, Mel Tillis, and Randy Travis, among others. He has released several instructional videos.

"Russ Barenberg is one of the most melodic instrumentalists in contemporary bluegrass. Best known for his Clarence White-style flatpicking, Barenberg often uses his other three fingers to enhance rhythm and melody and create a more textural sensitivity."

In 2007, his song "Little Monk" was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Country Instrumental Performance.

Solo discography

  • Cowboy Calypso (Rounder Records, 1980)
  • Behind the Melodies (Rounder, 1983)
  • Halloween Rehearsal (Rounder, 1987)
  • Moving Pictures (Rounder, 1988)
  • Skip, Hop and Wobble - Russ Barenberg, Jerry Douglas, Edgar Meyer - (Sugar Hill, 1993)
  • When at Last (Compass Records, 2007)
  • References

    Russ Barenberg Wikipedia