ABOUT JOHN RODERICK


My name is John Roderick, and I'm the guitarist and singer of the Seattle rock band The Long Winters. I'm excited to be going to Bonnaroo this year as correspondent for MSNBC. I'm going to check out all the big acts, The Police, Tool, Widespread Panic, The White Stripes, etc., but I'll also be seeking out the smaller and up and coming acts to get a wide-angle picture of the whole, three-day festival. I spend a number of months on tour every year myself, so I have a good idea what the bands themselves are experiencing, and I'll be able to report from backstage as well as from the crowd for a unique view of the music, the atmosphere, and the shenanigans.

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Fast picking from a master

Posted: Monday, June 18, 2007 3:23 PM by John Roderick

David Bromberg
Testing my “Happy Birthday” theory was David Bromberg, another truly gifted player who appeared to have come directly from his day job as a watch repairman in Schenectady, NY. (Actually, he repairs violins in Wilmington, Del.  I’m cheating now, consulting the festival guide, and it’s comforting how close I came.)

Mr. Bromberg played a nice mix of bluegrass and folk, with a lot of fast picking and fiddling, but he was taking the piss too, and hamming it up. 

It’s easy to forget that some of the first people to discover and popularize jazz and blues were the east coast Jews, so that Catskills Bluegrass is probably as old as rock and roll.  David Bromberg has played with Dylan, (again, the book) so it must all seem like a go

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