More Info on Ronnie EarlSimilar Undetermined MusicSearch Artistopia
Biography
: This article refers to the musician. For the district attorney of Travis County, Texas, see Ronnie Earle . Infobox musical artist|name = Ronnie Earl |image = RonnieEarl1996.jpg |caption = Earl playing the 1996 Riverwalk Blues Festival |image_size = |background = solo_singer |birth_name = Ronald Horvath |Born = birth date and age|mf=yes|1953|3|10|mf=y Queens , New York City|New York , United States |death_date = |genre = Blues , blues rock , rhythm and blues , jazz |occupation = Musician |instrument = Guitar |years_active = 1979& ndash;present |associated_acts= Roomful of Blues |label = Black Top Records , Telarc , Rounder Records , Stony Plain Records , Verve Records , Sledgehammer Blues /AudioQuest Music |website = http://www.ronnieearl.com/home.html Official website Ronnie Earl (born Ronald Horvath , March 10, 1953, Queens , New York City|New York , United States )Allmusic|class=artist|id=p337/biography|pure_url=yes Allmusic biography - accessed February 2008 is an United States|American blues guitarist and music instructor.
Career
Earl collected blues, jazz , Rock music|rock and Soul music|soul gramophone record|records while growing up. He studied American History at C.W. Post College on Long Island for a year and a half, then moved to Boston to pursue a Bachelor's Degree in Special Education and Education at Boston University where he would graduate in 1975. http://www.ronnieearl.com/bio.html Ronnie Earl's official Web site He spent a short time teaching handicapped children. It was during his college years that he attended a Muddy Waters concert at the Jazz Workshop in Boston. After seeing Waters perform, Earl took a serious interest in the guitar, which he had first picked up in 1973. His first job was as a rhythm guitar ist at The Speakeasy, http://www.bluesaudience.com/speakeasy.html The Blues Audience Speakeasy article a blues club in Cambridge, Massachusetts . In addition to playing in the Boston blues scene, Earl traveled twice by Greyhound Lines|Greyhound Bus to Chicago, where he was introduced to the Chicago blues scene by Koko Taylor .
Later he traveled to New Orleans and Austin, Texas , where he spent time with Kim Wilson , Jimmy Vaughan and The Fabulous Thunderbirds . In 1979 he joined The Roomful of Blues as lead guitar ist for the band (music)|band .
He began performing solo (music)|solo in 1986, in addition to playing with Roomful of Blues, and he released his first solo album on the Black Top Records record label|label with a quartet that focused on blues instrumental s. After leaving Roomful of Blues, he began collaborations with contemporaries Ron Levy and Jerry Portnoy , Earl King , Jimmy Rogers , and Jimmy Witherspoon .
In 1988 Earl formed his own band that he called The Broadcasters, named after the first Fender guitar which originally had been labeled The Broadcaster and was distributed in 1950. The first group of Broadcasters included Darrell Nulisch (vocalist), Jerry Portnoy (harmonica), Steve Gomes (bass), and Per Hanson (drums). In 1988 they released their first album, Soul Searchin , followed by Peace of Mind in 1990. Their album Language of the Soul was released in 1994. The lineup for the Broadcasters for that album was Bruce Katz (keyboards), Per Hanson (drums) and "Rocket" Rod Carey (bass). The next album The Colour of Love , featured Marc Quinones (percusion) and Gregg Allman (keyboards). The association lead to Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters opening for the Allman Brothers Band at Great Woods, and Warren Haynes (guitar for the Allman Brothers Band) sitting in with Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters at Johnnie D's in Somerville. Later Katz joining the Gregg Allman Band.
In 2000, Earl was diagnosed with several medical ailments, http://www.ronnieearl.com/brianhollandinterview.html Ronnieearl.com and scaled back his touring, as well as re-evaluating his career plans. The current group of Broadcasters, Jimmy Mouradian (bass), Dave Limina (organ), and Lorne Entress (drums), began playing together prior to the 2003 release of I Feel Like Going On and, in 2009, released Living in the Light , their fifth release from Stony Plain Records . http://www.stonyplainrecords.com/ronnieearl Stony Plain Records: Canada's Roots, Rock, Country, Folk & Blues Label In 2008, Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters celebrated twenty years as a band, and by August, 2010, Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters released Spread the Love .
Earl is a two-time Blues Music Award winner as Guitar Player of the Year. For five years he was an Associate Professor of Guitar at Berklee College of Music and, in 1995, he released Ronnie Earl: Blues Guitar with Soul , an instructional VHS tape that was then re-released in DVD format in 2005. Earl was also the blues instructor at the 'National Guitar Summer Workshop'.
In early 2004, Earl's "Hey Jose" won in the third The Independent Music Awards|Independent Music Awards for Best Blues/R& B Song. http://www.musiciansatlas.com/jukebox/index.html Independent Music Awards - 3rd Annual Winners
See also
List of blues musicians
San Francisco Blues Festival
Long Beach Blues Festival
Black Top Records catalog
References
Reflist
External links
http://www.ronnieearl.com/home.html Official Web site
Persondata | NAME = Earl, Ronnie | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = United States|American blues guitarist | DATE OF BIRTH = March 10, 1953 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Queens , New York City|New York , United States | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Earl, Ronnie Category:1953 births Category:Living people Category:American blues musicians Category:People from Queens Category:American blues guitarists Category:American people of Hungarian descent Category:Black Top Records artists Category:Contemporary blues musicians Category:Independent Music Awards winners
de:Ronnie Earl es:Ronnie Earl
Copyright Citations
This article is licensed under the GNU License
Click here for original article: Ronnie Earl
