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Topic: Chris Darrow |
Richard Alderson
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Illinois, USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2020 8:26 am |
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I see that Chris Darrow has left us.
Here is an interview he did reflecting on the Summer of Love with his band Kaleidoscope.
https://www.imposemagazine.com/features/chris-darrow-monterey-pop-summer-of-loveere
Here is a You Tube link to his self titled album, using songs from the folk catalogue and public domain; one or two of the original songs have a Crosby Stills and Nash or early Jerry Garcia kind of vibe. All the public domain songs fall into more of a folk vein, and many of the originals resemble public domain songs in form and content. I haven't checked the credits to see who did the pedal steel work towards the end of the album, all the dobro work is Chris himself, he was a multi-instrumentalist swiss-army knife kind of player.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w47KgP2_uRk
Some pictures below, Chris around the time of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; Early years with David Lindley; Later years with his iconic dobro similar to the one that graced Brad Bechtel's site for years.
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Jim Sliff
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Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 3 Mar 2020 11:04 am
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Wow, I just heard about Chris!
Not only a tremendous multi-instrumentalist, but a great guy as well. Back in the late 70's/early 80's I played with him a few times at the Ice House in Pasadena CA.
In thise days if artists in LA needed pretty much any acoustic instrumental fills or eclectic/ethnic instruments there were two guys on the first call list - Darrow and Lindley. Really creative and melodic player - I could listen to him play for hours and he'd rarely repeat himself.
RIP
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1921 Weissenborn Style 2; Hilo&Schireson hollownecks
Appalachian, Regal & Dobro squarenecks
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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