Guitar performer and five-string banjo virtuoso Eddie Adcock has been one of bluegrass music's greatest and most innovative performers for more than forty years. He cut his musical teeth with Bill Monroe and Mac Wiseman, and as one-third of the groundbreaking trio The Country Gentlemen Eddie was the initial internationally acclaimed five-string bluegrass banjo performer to play at Carnegie Hall and soon afterwards released his first collection books of country guitar tabs and country guitar tablatures. Since then his work with his spouse, Martha Adcock, has garnered 3 Grammy nominations and appearances at the Kennedy Center and on a variety of syndicated and local TV and radio shows. Eddie has been named "Instrumentalist of The Year" (Major Independent Record Label Awards ceremony) and "Entertainer of The Year" (International Bluegrass Music Association). The original Country Gentlemen have recently been inducted into the IBMA's high-profile Hall of Honor.
3 time Grammy nominee Eddie Adcock has charmed all varieties of crowds across the U. S., Canada and Europe with his bluegrass and acoustic country music, with rave reviews, considerably press and heavy airplay around the world. He was married in 1976 and now resides in Nashville, Tennessee with his spouse Martha.
Cashbox Magazine calls him "a stellar musician and vocalist," and Billboard has termed him "one of the Bluegrass circuit's top acts." He has taken his sunny, witty, high-energy music from local clubs to the Kennedy Center. Mixing genuine Travis-style fingerpicking with lightning fast bluegrass runs, Eddie gets as exciting a guitar sound as you'll hear anywhere! His innovative guitar techniques incorporate right hand banjo rolls, complicated slides, pull-offs and hammer-ons, and alternating thumb index finger combinations to identify but a few.
Eddie Adcock has appeared on "Austin City Limits," TNN's "Nashville Now" and "Wildhorse Saloon," NPR specials, and a variety of syndicated and local TV and radio shows. His video, Dog, attained airplay on TNN, CMT, and also CNN. He recorded a number of well-liked recordings, appearing on a number of bluegrass and country charts.
Eddie Adcock performs a lot of his own original music, both vocal songs and instrumentals, showcasing his strong, expressive style and somehow sounding like more than himself. Focus calls his music "ensnaring." Woven in and among his uniquely-styled music are influences from bluegrass, country, folk, jazz, blues, rock and roll, gospel, and rockabilly, transcending into a unique and heady sound, part of the past, present, and definitely the future! And his warm yet edgy style and uninhibited stage persona is a real treat.
Eddie's zany stage humor may at the start belie the fact that he is an influential, innovative stylist on guitar and banjo - plain and simple: a superpicker! He has been one of Bluegrass music's greatest and most innovative performers for more than forty years. Country Music Magazine calls Eddie Adcock's playing and instrumental influence "legendary." Seen as the originator of a recognized style of playing, he was the initial internationally acclaimed 5-string bluegrass banjoist to appear at Carnegie Hall - as spark plug in The Country Gentlemen. Throughout Eddie's 12-year tenure with them from 1958 to 1970, they were the group who changed bluegrass and took it uptown. In his early days, Eddie was a fellow member of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys, remembered by Bill as becoming his favorite baritone singer.
Eddie Adcock belongs to a number of business organizations, such as IBMA and the Folk Alliance. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Banjo Institute. He additionally runs Adcock Audio, a large, state-of-the-art sound company. And he maintains a large mailing list to stay in touch with deejays, press, and followers. About the Author
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