Casey Driessen: fiddle,
Andy Hall: dobro,
Chris Henry: mandolin,
Chris Pandolfi/Scott Vestal: banjo,
Steven Sandifer: percussion,
Missy Raines/Mike Bub/Amanda Kowalski: bass
Influences
Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, Jerry Garcia, David Grier, Michael Grant, Tony Rice, Jimi Hendrix, Norman Blake, Bob Dylan, The Band, James Brown, Flatt and Scruggs, Bill Frisell, Neil Young, Miles Davis, Eric Clapton, Adam Wright, Duane Allman, the Allman Bros., Chris Henry, Casey Henry, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Don Reno, Trevor Boyer, Dustin Boyer, Doc Watson, Danny Smith, Albert King, BB King, Vassar Clements, Dan Marcus, John Scofield, Bryan Landers, Andres Segovia, JS Bach, Buck Owens, Peter Tosh, Merle Haggard, Miroslav Tadic, The Original Seldom Scene, Jerry Douglas, Amanda Kowalski, Mike Bub, Ivan Garzon, Del McCoury, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Carl Perkins, Parrish Freeman, Joni Mitchell, Phish, John Allen, Emmylou Harris, Mark Knopfler, JJ Cale, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Robert Pete Williams, Dusan Bogdanovic, Wadada Leo Smith, Noam Pikelny, Chris Eldridge, Peter Rowan, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, Andy Hall, Ralph and Carter Stanley, Chris Pandolfi, Tim O'Brien, Casey Driessen, Roland White, Clarence White, The Revelations, AP Carter, Sara Carter, Mother Maybelle Carter, Roy Acuff, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Stuart Fox, James Taylor, Marc Lowenstein, Drew Emmitt, Jeff Sipe, the Grateful Dead, Charlie Haden, Paul Simon, Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman, Philip Poist, Casey Butler, the Osborne Brothers, Mozart, Beethoven, Bartok, the Louvin Brothers, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Steve Earle, Uncle Walt's Band, Tony Watt, the Funky Meters, the Neville Brothers, Mississippi John Hurt, the Staples Singers, the Nashville Bluegrass Band, David Grisman, Curtis Mayfield, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, Willie Nelson, Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa, the Delmore Brothers, Bela Fleck, Russ Barenberg, Chet Atkins, Sam Bush, AKUS, Keith Little, Bill Keith, Jimmie Rogers, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane
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Tyler Grant is a versatile guitarist with a wide range of influences and musical expertise. He is a member of the Drew Emmitt Band (singer/mandolinist of Leftover Salmon) and Casey and Chris and the Two Stringers (an incredible bluegrass band.) He has recently unveiled his honkytonk bluegrass alter-ego, Tavern Grass, to much aplomb in Nashville. The band features the incomparable Mike Bub on bass and fascinating mando-luminary Chris Henry. ____________________________________________________________________________
Tyler is a gifted singer and songwriter as well, and released his first solo album, In The Light, in June 2006 on FGM Records, featuring some of his amazing friends from Nashville: Mike Bub, Casey Driessen, Andy Hall, Pat Enright, Chris Henry, Amanda Kowalski, Chris Pandolfi, Missy Raines, Steven Sandifer, and Scott Vestal. The album is a mix of original and traditional songs and instrumentals in the bluegrass and folk tradition. Plenty of hot pickin'. -CLICK HERE to buy In The
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Tyler placed first in the Wayne Henderson Guitar Contest in 2005 and the Colorado State Flatpicking Championship at Rockygrass in 2003. He placed second at the National Flatpicking Championship in Winfield, Kansas in 2005. He holds a BFA in Music Performance from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). ______________________________________________________________________________
Tyler was an original member of Adrienne Young and Little Sadie and appeared on her albums Plow to the End of the Row and The Art of Virtue. He also toured the US and Canada with the phenomenal April Verch and in 2004 toured China with Abigail Washburn.
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You tore it up in Telluride, both with Emmitt-Nershi and the guitar workshop. A lot of people are talking about you, I think you just got a bunch of new fans!
Hope the bluegrass is flowin' freely with lots of love and fun bouncin' between those mountains! Wish Kirk and I were there playin' with you and Kathleen. Blessings and best wishes for safe summer travels and lots of great tunes played. Love and miss y'all!
