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Robin Ruddy

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About Me


CLICK "PLAY" TO HEAR CLIP OF BANJO SOLO ON ROD STEWART TOUR!

Robin Ruddy was born in the tropics of Miami Florida. She is now officially a Nashvillian having lived in Music City for 20 years.
She has made her mark in the music community by being a multi-instrumentalist, playing pedal steel, banjo, dobro and guitar, working with artists like Ray Stevens, Shania Twain, Lynn Anderson, Randy Travis, Vince Gill, Deborah Allen, Matt King, David Ball, and many others. She is currently touring with the 2007 Rod Stewart tour.
She and her husbnd Larry Sheridan own The Parlor Studio, and Parlor Productions as well as Best Built Songs and Music Row Realty.She won a Grammy in 2005 for her work with David Ball on the "Beautiful Dreamer- Songs of Stephen Foster" project.

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Member Since: 10/1/2006
Band Website: parlorproductions.com
Band Members:

ROD STEWART BAND, Dave Palmer, Matt OcConnor, Conrad Korsch, Chuck Kentis, Matt Beck, Paul Warren, Don Kirkpatrick, J'Anna Jacoby, Katja Riekermann, Robin Ruddy, Bridget Mohammed, Di Reed, Natasha Pearce.
Influences: Crosby Stills and Nash, Neil Young, James Taylor, Bob Dylan, Jackson Brown, The Eagles, Don Henley, Simon and Garfunkle, The Beatles, The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Karla Bonnoff, Jonie Mitchell, Traffic, Poco, New Riders and the Purple Sage, The Greatful Dead, Jimmy Hendrix, Yes, Ten Years After, Earl Scruggs, New Grass Revival, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Grahm Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Bill Monroe, Asleep at the Wheel, Bob Wills, Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Charleton, Buddy Emmons, Alison Krauss, Ricky Skaggs, Tony Trishka, Alan Munde, Tim Watson.

Record Label: Robin's - Parlor Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Glasgow Scotland

Glasgow Scotland- July 5th 2007We have been battling the weather ever since this tour began and today it was sunny when we arrived at our sound check at 3:00pm so we were hopeful that the weather woul...
Posted by Robin Ruddy on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:52:00 PST

Laundry

I am looking for a coin laundry somewhere on this trip and it seems to be quite elusive. I have been on the road for about 3 weeks and washing my skivvies in the sink so far, but man I just wish I cou...
Posted by Robin Ruddy on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 03:50:00 PST

Concert for Di

Concert for DI July 1st 2007What a day that was. It is now the next morning and we have a day off today. I am going to go explore London today, but before I go out I want to write about yesterday. I f...
Posted by Robin Ruddy on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 05:24:00 PST

Tune in to NBC - The Concert for Di

Princess Di MemorialTune in to the taping on NBC of "The Concert For Di". This is a memorial concert, which is being held on her birthday 10 years after her death. It will be at Wembley Stadium in Lo...
Posted by Robin Ruddy on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:30:00 PST

Tales From Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle 6-27-07Windsor England The show at the Windsor Castle was extremely surreal.We had to bring two forms of photo ID to get our credentials to be able to be in the Castle. Once we got our...
Posted by Robin Ruddy on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:22:00 PST

Windsor Castle

We just started our European Summer Tour of 2007.We played our first show last night outdoors at the St James Stadium in Newcastle England. The weather was bitter, rainy and cold, but the crowd was la...
Posted by Robin Ruddy on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:57:00 PST

Banjo Solo in TD Banknorth Center in Boston on 2-3-07

If you click on this link and if the computer Gods are willing you will get to see a snippet of what I am doing everynight with Rod. This is a clip of a Rod Stewart song "I'm Lost in you". There is a...
Posted by Robin Ruddy on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:32:00 PST

Bag Drop

    Everyday there is a show or a rehearsal or a check out from the hotel, we wake up and sometime mysteriously in the middle of the night our road manager has placed a sheet of  p...
Posted by Robin Ruddy on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:45:00 PST

Rod Stewart's Birthday Party

We are here in West Palm Beach Floida. This is where the tour begins. We have rehearsals on the first few days then we do our first show in FT Lauderdale tomorrow night.     The rehea...
Posted by Robin Ruddy on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:45:00 PST

Packing

Packing for a 4 month trip. What to take? I want my pillow, my favorite pillow, my jammies, my new Christmas sweater, I want my recording studio... damn wont fit...Lets see, banjo, pedal steel, dobro...
Posted by Robin Ruddy on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 07:00:00 PST