Peter Rowan was born in Massachusetts, which is not a state you\u00a0usually associate with a bluegrass legend. At the age of 20, he auditioned and won the position of lead guitarist\/vocalist in Bill Monroe\u2019s Bluegrass Boys.<\/p>\n
During the late 1960s and early 1970s,\u00a0he played rock and roll as a member of Earth Opera, The Rowan Brothers, Seatrain, and for a short spell with Jerry Garcia. His solo career has incorporated a number of styles, but he remains a bluegrass artist in his soul.<\/p>\n
Rowan\u2019s new album returns him to his roots. The Stanley Brothers \u2013 Carter and Ralph \u2013 were early influences, and Carter Stanley\u2019s Eyes <\/em>is a heartfelt tribute to them. While he records two of their tunes, Carter\u2019s \u201cA Vision Of Mother\u201d and Ralph\u2019s \u201cRidin\u2019 On That Midnight Train,\u201d he also channels their style throughout the 14 tracks on this release.<\/p>\n Rowan is now in his mid-seventies and a number of songs here deal with mortality. \u201cDrumbeats On The Watchtower\u201d is a song of aging and acceptance that only a person of his age could compose. The Carter track \u201cWill You Miss Me\u201d is partly sung without instruments as Rowan ruminates about the world without him in it.<\/p>\n There are a couple tunes where he fuses different styles to bluegrass. The gospel song \u201cThe Crown He Wore\u201d connects the two closely associated disciplines. Ledbelly\u2019s \u201cAlabama Bound\u201d has a nice blues feel within the parameters of bluegrass instrumentation.<\/p>\n The Carter Brothers helped Rowan to hone his bluegrass skills, and in many ways, the direction of his life. Carter Stanley\u2019s Eyes <\/em>is a payment for lessons well-learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":33485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10177],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-45303","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-peter-rowan","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45303"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45303"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}