Roger Hardin

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Jerry's Breakdown

Album: Turn Right, Go Straight

Released: Feb 4, 2007

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Jerry's Breakdown
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When you wish upon a star
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Sugarfoot rag
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General Info

Genre: Acoustic / Bluegrass / Jazz
Location US
Profile Views: 61673
Last Login: 8/20/2010
Member Since 2/4/2007
Website www.rogerhardin.com
Record Label rockin' chair records
Type of Label Indie
Bio
Roger Hardin is a fingerstyle guitarist originally from Cowpens, Sc. Home of the legendary jazz guitarist, Hank "sugarfoot" Garland. He was deeply drawn to the playing styles of Chet Atkins when he was very young. Around age 12, he was given his first guitar and started playing along with his Chet Atkins, Hank Garland, and Dwayne Friend Vinyls. His hard work paid off and he recieved a music scholarship for classical guitar performance from Lee University and studied under Mario Abril at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. Throughout the years he remained honing his thumbpicking skills and working on complex fingerstyle arrangements. In 2002, it started paying off with sweeping one national, and two international fingerstyle guitar contests in the same year. Shortly after, Roger's self produced cd, "Turn Right, Go Straight" was released. Since winning guitar contests and releasing a debut cd, he has also had the privelage to be a feature performer at CAAS(chet atkins appreciation society) every year since 2003 which includes players such as Tommy Emmanuel, Buster B. Jones, and Muriel Anderson. What's drawn people to Roger's playing is his originality with arrangements of songs like "Jerry's Breakdown", and "Sugarfoot Rag" .............. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .................. .. a
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Influences
Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, John Knowles, Merle Travis,Tommy Emmanuel, Doyle Dykes, Pat Kirtley, Brent Mason, Buster B. Jones, Steve Lukather, Larry Carlton, Eddie Pennington, Doc Watson, Bob Dennis, Dwayne Friend, Hank "sugarfoot"Garland, Lenny Breau, Charles Evans, Django Reinhart, Pete Huttlinger, Ronnie Monroe, Thom Bresh, Joscho Stephan trio, Richard Smith, Bob Evans, Jim Nichols, Guy Van Duser, Kyle Reeder
Sounds Like
Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, Lenny Breau, Jerry Reed, Doyle Dykes, Tommy Emmanuel .. ....Jerrys Breakdown .... .. .. .. .. .. ....When You Wish Upon A Star.... .. .. .. .. .. .. ....Sugarfoot Rag(Hank Garland cover) .... .. .. .. .. .. .. ....Don't Know Why(Norah Jones cover) .... .. .. .. .. .. .......... .......... ............ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..