Peter Rowan
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Oct 22, 2026
Chris WuerthHOST
yeah the hardware store sounds to me like the perfect place to play and hear music i i it is i like small places that are kind of out of the ordinary and you know you just there and sit there and they're right up there with you and you play
Terry EldredgeGUEST
yeah yeah you said if it's packed you can sit probably 75 people in there they've got tables you know sit around and eat and that and i and i am uh In November, I'm getting to do a gig with Peter Rowan.
Terry EldredgeGUEST
He called, I'd played with Peter years back, just a few days with him when him and Vassar Clements did a few things and played gigs with him.
Terry EldredgeGUEST
He remembered me and he seen that we were playing.
Trevor ShawHOST
They did a very worthy job of it.
Trevor ShawHOST
Big fan of Peter Rowan.
Trevor ShawHOST
Big fan of Midnight Moonlight.
Trevor ShawHOST
Fun bluegrass.
Melody WalkerGUEST
That was, like, their festival they went to every year, met up with their friends at, picked and, you know, I got to see incredible acts, and that's like a very bluegrass and beyond type of festival.
Melody WalkerGUEST
So, like, you know, I would see Peter Rowan and David Grisman and Laurie Lewis, and then I would see at night, like, Bonnie Raitt, you know, headlining.
Melody WalkerGUEST
Um, or, like, you know, Little Feat or things like that, like, big rock bands.
Melody WalkerGUEST
Um, but that still had, like, that rootsy component, you know? So, like, that stuff is just deep in my DNA as a songwriter, as an artist.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
Someone who traveled with him on Grateful Dead tours remembered walking into his hotel room and finding him practicing banjo for the next bluegrass gig because he cared, because he did not want to bomb.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
Around him gathered David Grisman on mandolin and Peter Rowan on guitar.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
They needed a bass player who could hold the bottom of an acoustic band without a wire in sight.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
That was Kahn, the jazz string bass player from the conservatory, back on the big wooden instrument he had first fallen for.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
Grisman said Vassar was a hero to all three of them and at the height of his powers, and that playing next to him was like being next to Charlie Parker in his prime.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
Garcia, he added, had never worked with real bluegrass musicians before, and he was in seventh heaven.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
On one early tape, Grisman introduces the band to the crowd, Peter Rowan on the guitar, fiddling Richard Greene, Spud Garcia on the five-string banjo, and on the bass, little John Kahn, which is a fine name for one of the tallest, lankiest men in the room.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
The band filled big halls in the East in front of Deadheads who loved whatever Jerry did.
Bryan SuttonGUEST
Well, I think that they, the three of those guys, just got together after doing a few of these sort of reunion shows.
Bryan SuttonGUEST
I think Pete Rowan played some guitar with them-
Craig HavighurstHOST
Mm-hmm
Bryan SuttonGUEST
... um, here and there, and there was never really kind of a concert- like you say, sort of unspoken, uh, just roughshod, "Let's ...
JD RyznarHOST
Yeah.
JD RyznarHOST
Uh, the songwriter, Peter Rowan, is a Grammy-winning bluegrass player in the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame.
JD RyznarHOST
In the early '70s, he was a member of the, of this group, Old and in the Way, and I think they were the first to record this song.
JD RyznarHOST
Uh, you can hear of another version that Peter recorded as a solo artist.
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Dave LyonsHOST
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FabioSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Number two.
JD RyznarHOST
Uh, John Hartford is one of this country's great songwriters.
JD RyznarHOST
Uh, once, uh, his beautiful song Gentle on My Mind about fondly remembering a past love was recorded by Glen Campbell.
Trevor ShawHOST
They did a very worthy job of it.
Trevor ShawHOST
Big fan of Peter Rowan.
Trevor ShawHOST
Big fan of Midnight Moonlight.
Trevor ShawHOST
Fun bluegrass.
Kenny FeinsteinGUEST
Carter Eddy, which is Jake's brother on bass.
Kenny FeinsteinGUEST
We do a George Jones song, we do a bunch of traditional old time, some Stanley Brothers, Peter Rowan, Lonesome L.A.
Kenny FeinsteinGUEST
Cowboy is the title track.
Kenny FeinsteinGUEST
Thanks for asking about that.
David PerlisGUEST
But it runs very deep.
David PerlisGUEST
David Grisman, Peter Rowan.
David PerlisGUEST
These are a facet of Banana Levenger from the Youngbloods.
David PerlisGUEST
I kind of call it yellow grass.
Dave StroudHOST
We're going to close out with just two more.
Dave StroudHOST
We've got Peter Rowan and Don Edwards and Trail to Mexico from the album High Lonesome Cowboy.
Dave StroudHOST
But first...
Dave StroudHOST
How about a little bit of Rosalie Sorrell's and classic 1961 track called Empty Cots in the Bunkhouse Tonight.
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