Song:Mudville
Album:Blues Crossroads: Acoustic Blues, Old And New
Banjo and slide guitar whiz Tony Furtado started out in bluegrass and has crossed over to blues and other forms of music. He a very accomplished musician. He grew up in Pleasanton, CA and took up the banjo after writing a sixth grade report about it. He was studying music at Cal State Hayward when on a whim he went to Kansas and entered the Grand National Banjo Championship. He won in 1987 and again in 1991. This led to a stint touring with the popular bluegrass artist Laurie Lewis and then his solo debut on Rounder Records in 1992. Furtado's music is an eclectic mix of bluegrass, blues, jazz, rock and whatever else he can think of. Ry Cooder fans would probably enjoy his music. Blues Crossroads is a various artists comp on Rounder's budget EasyDisc label so it's a reasonable intro for beginners. Mudville is from his 1997 hard charging blues CD Roll My Blues Away and was produced by world music producer Cookie Marenco (Oregon, Ladysmith Black Mambazo). Tony Furtado lives in Portland, OR and is currently signed to Tucson, AZ roots music label Funzalo Records. His new CD Deep Water will be released in Jan. 2009. Tony Furtado should be of interest to roots music fans. Here's Tony Furtado playing his banjo at the Fine Pickins Bluegrass Festival in Missoula, MT Sept. 28, 1999.
pretty cool. I live in Missoula now and am active in the Montana Rockies Bluegrass association and am a huge fan of Tony Frutado. Thanks for posting this footage. Was this the festival that Tom Kelly put on? I didn't live here in 1999.
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