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Strings For Industry

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Strings For Industry;
...Strings for the dead.
…An all-star band spiralling up out of the rich caffeinated brew that is the music community of Portland, Oregon. Too famous to be "local" but residents just the same, Portland's very own all-star team of nationally-known talent has coalesced as Strings For Industry.
Musical legends Darol Anger (violin) and Carlton Jackson (percussion) team with acknowledged monsters Scott Law (guitar) and Tye North (bass), and with special guests such as S4i co-founder Tony Furtado, to deliver a musical experience embracing the length, breadth and depth of American Music.
In the great tradition of groups like The Band and NRBQ, this band covers it all with their original songs and re-imagining of classics.
Singer-songwriter-instrumentalist SCOTT LAW’s fiery guitar and mandolin playing compliment soulful singing and a book of songs from punkfunk-jazz to three-chord Americana. A lifelong improviser who thrives on live performance, Scott is as comfortable in an intimate acoustic setting as with a highly energized electro-psychedelic-blues-rock raging freakout. He has worked with Phil Lesh, Bill Nershi (Honkytonk Homeslice), Hanuman, Melvin Seals, his own group (Scott Law Band) and The Piano Throwers among others.
The LA Times has described CARLTON JACKSON's drumming as being "intensely musical." This phrase also perfectly describes Carlton, a nationally known first call musician in the industry. His incisive style & mastery of various music genres has made him a natural choice for his work in live performance, feature films, television and radio. Carlton has worked with jazz greats Tom Grant, Leroy Vinnegar, Billy Eckstine, Bo Diddley, Jerry Hahn, Maryann Price, Mark Isham, Jim Pepper, Bobby Torres, James Cotton, Houston Person, actor Bruce Willis, Dianne Schuur, Larry Coryell, Danny Barnes, Bill Frisell, and Gordon Lee. Carlton has also worked under the batons of conductors Pete Rugolo, Norman Leyden and James DePreist. Dan Balmer and Terry Robb, Blues/R&B singers D.K.Stewart and Curtis Salgado, country-pop singer Toni Land and iconoclastic composer Jon Newton, have also engaged his musical services.
A native of Portland, Oregon, bassist TYE NORTH toured all over the US with Leftover Salmon for 7 years. He recording three records with them, featuring guests Bela Fleck, Waylon Jennings, Earl Scruggs, and Lucinda Williams. Tye has performed and collaborated with Victor Wooten, Paul Mccandless, Mike Kang, Sam Bush, Karl Denson, Robert Walter, Jessica Lurie, Darol Anger, Taj Mahal, Future Man, Wally Ingram, Jeff Coffin, and Bruce Hampton. He has taken part in and promoted concerts for the Annual Zambiland Orchestra, held by beloved drummer Jeff Sipe. He recorded and toured with the group Comotion, featuring Mike Kang, Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, Paul McCandless, Jeff Sipe, and Aaron Johnston.
Violinist, fiddler, composer, producer and educator, DAROL ANGER is at home in a number of musical genres, some of which he helped to invent. He developed his signature sound through working with many of the world’s great improvising string musicians, among them Stephane Grappelli, Mark O’Connor, Bela Fleck, Tony Rice, David Grisman and Vassar Clements.
His current group, The Republic Of Strings, breaks new territory for bowed string instruments and presents young talent. With the jazz-oriented Turtle Island String Quartet, Anger developed and popularized new techniques for playing contemporary music on string instruments. His groups The Republic of Strings, The Fiddlers 4, Psychograss, and the Anger-Marshall Duo feature his compositions and arrangements. His group Montreux was the original musical model for the New Adult Contemporary radio format. The David Grisman Quintet forged a new genre of acoustic string band music with Darol’s “fertile inventiveness, surprising touches and technical mastery” often in the forefront. Anger has produced dozens of critically lauded recordings since 1977 which have featured his compositions and performances.
“Darol Anger is the sort of musician who refuses to concede that musical boundaries even exist. Surrounding himself with up-and-coming musicians of the absolute top rank, Anger has upped the ante of string-band music almost off the charts.”–Amazon.com
Special Guest and Co-Founder TONY FURTADO, who grew up in Pleasanton, Calififornia, took up the banjo at 12 and was hailed as a prodigy at age 19. While he has cemented his reputation as a banjoist extraordinaire with numerous recordings, Furtado has also developed into an equally virtuosic slide guitarist, singer and songwriter. Tony's playing has a rootsy drive to it that captures your attention and takes you into the wide-open spaces of mythopoetic America, a terrain inhabited by such personal heroes of Tony's as Ry Cooder, the Band, John Fogerty, Tom Petty and Tom Waits.

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Member Since: 05/02/2007
Band Website: here...and here: darolanger.com/StringsForIndustry
Band Members: Darol Anger (fiddle) Carlton Jackson (Percussion, vocals) Scott Law (guitars, vocals, mandolin) Tye North (bass, vocals)
Tony Furtado (slide guitar, banjo, vocals)
Influences: The oneness of the allness...
Sounds Like: The Good Kind Of Music.
Record Label: unsung
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

just a sittin and a rockin....

Dudes and Dudettes!!I finally got it together to post an entry into the Strings For Industry Bloggysphere!!All is well with the SFI guys and we are all full of different amounts of turkey after the ho...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:04:00 GMT

Interstellar Supreme Available on iTunes!

... and Rhapsody, and Amazonmp3.com, as a high-quality download. Hear the whole show as it went down at the famed Mississippi Studios in Portland, Oregon, 2007.And stay tuned for a new studio recordin...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:36:00 GMT

good month

A good mionth for Strings For Industry... shows in Colorado, The High Sierra festival, Oregon Country Fair, and Downtown Portland made it busy.our master Drummer, Carlton, has a great blog of these re...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:57:00 GMT

News

Strings For Industry gets off to a great start in summer 2007 with 3 major west coast festivals, 2 events in Colorado, an other appearances around Oregon. S4I will appear with special guest and Charte...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:23:00 GMT