Eddie Adcock – The Most Legendary Country Music Guitarist Ever!
Guitarist and five-string banjo virtuoso Eddie Adcock has been one of bluegrass music’s best and most revolutionary performers for over 40 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 perform 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 wife, Martha Adcock, has garnered three Grammy nominations and appearances at the Kennedy Center and on a host of syndicated and local TV and radio shows. Eddie has been voted “Instrumentalist of The Year” (Major Independent Record Label Awards ceremony) and “Entertainer of The Year” (International Bluegrass Music Association). The original Country Gentlemen have not long ago been inducted into the IBMA’s acclaimed Hall of Honor.
3 time Grammy nominee Eddie Adcock has charmed all varieties of crowds throughout the U. S., Canada and Europe with his bluegrass and acoustic country songs, with rave critiques, much press and heavy airplay around the world. He was married in 1976 and now lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his spouse Martha.
Cashbox Magazine calls him “a great 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 authentic Travis-style fingerpicking with lightning fast bluegrass runs, Eddie gets as exciting a guitar sound as you’ll experience anywhere! His progressive guitar techniques include 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 several bluegrass and country charts.
Eddie Adcock features a lot of his own original tunes, both vocal songs and instrumentals, showcasing his strong, expressive style and somehow sounding like more than himself. Focus calls his tunes “ensnaring.” Woven in and among his uniquely-styled songs are influences from bluegrass, country, folk, jazz, blues, rock, gospel, and rockabilly, transcending into a distinctive and heady sound, part of the past, present, and absolutely the future! And his warm yet edgy style and uninhibited stage persona is a real treat.
Eddie’s zany stage humor may at first belie the fact that he is an influential, modern stylist on guitar and banjo – plain and simple: a superpicker! He has been one of Bluegrass music’s best and most innovative performers for over 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 perform at Carnegie Hall – as spark plug in The Country Gentlemen. During 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 enterprise organizations, including 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 big mailing list to stay in touch with deejays, press, and followers.
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