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Groovin' on the Rogue

A wonderful film produced by ECHO guest Dennis Johnsen about last year's "Bluegrass on Whitewater" trip featuring Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum.

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  Laurie Lewis - Louisville 1991 (part 1)
  
  Singing Bird
  
  The One Who Loves You
  
  The World Has Gone Dry
  
  Love Chooses You
  
  Who Will Watch The Home Place?
  
  Texas Bluebonnets
  
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  Laurie Lewis - Louisville 1991 (part 2)
  
  Singing Bird
  
  The One Who Loves You
  
  The World Has Gone Dry
  
  Love Chooses You
  
  Who Will Watch The Home Place?
  
  Texas Bluebonnets
  
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Laurie Lewis/ Val's Cabin

Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum are joined by Tom Sauber (banjo) and Mark Graham (harmonica) in Tilden Park, Berkeley, CA 6/12/07

Patrick Sauber: video...

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  Laurie Lewis, fiddling hula-hooper
  
  Too much free time, a hula hoop and a fiddle. Here's a bit of a tune called "Shove the Pig's Foot a Little Further Into the Fire." We were at the B...
  
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  Blossom Bar in a drift boat
  
  Dick Linford executes a perfect run through Blossom Bar in his drift boat, August 2008. Wahoo!
  
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  Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands, Here Today
  
  Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands at the Freight and Salvage, Berkeley, CA, 11/22/09
  
  Laurie; guitar, vocal
  
  Tom Rozum: mandolin, vocal
  
  Patrick Sauber...
  
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Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands, Lark in the Morning

Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands, with Erika Tietjen, at the Freight and Salvage, 11/22/09.

Laurie: guitar, vocal; Tom Rozum: mandola; Patrick Sau...

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  Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands, Old Ten Broeck
  
  Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands, 11/22/09, Freight and Salvage, Berkeley, CA.
  
  Laurie Lewis: guitar, vocal: Tom Rozum; mandolin, vocal; Chad Mannin...
  
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lewieloris liked 1 month ago

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John Hartford - Old Time River Man

Fabulous version of a great song.

Don't know the time or place. Possibly at his home on the Cumberland river Nashville, since it appears to have be...

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  Middle Fork of the Salmon River Short Film
  
  A short film about Idaho's Middle Fork of Salmon River with ECHO River Trips (http://www.echotrips.com). Please give us a call at (800) 652-3246 if...
  
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lewieloris uploaded 1 month ago

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Laurie Lewis: I'm in Love With a River Guide

A love song for river guides. Thanks to Nadine Landry and Sammy Lind for joining me on the chorus.

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Legend is not always loud. Particularly in the beneath-the-radar substreams of American folk music and bluegrass, it is bestowed more by whispered word-of-mouth, over years and decades, than by the hurried hype and ballyhoo of the pop mainstream. You can't measure Laurie Lewis's 30-year career with the usual commercial yardsticks. She has won a Grammy ("True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe," 1997), and twice been named Female Vocalist of the Year by the IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association).

If you listen down the backroads of acoustic Americana, however, you'll soon realize this soft-spoken, sweet-singing California fiddler, singer and songwriter is something very special. Lewis has been a groundbreaking revolutionary, the first bona fide bluegrass star who was a woman born outside the music's native southland. It is hard to tell whether her being a woman or a Californian impacted the music more, but what is clear is that she is a pivotal figure in transforming the music from a regional genre into a truly international musical language.

Sam Bush is such a pivotal figure in the modern bluegrass revival that the subgenre of progressive bluegrass was nicknamed after the band he founded in the 1970s, the Newgrass Revival. He warns against making too much fuss about Lewis being influential simply because of her gender or where she hails from. "She is newgrass in the truest sense of the word, in that she uses bluegrass instruments to create new original music: it's music for now," he says. "Laurie is very genderless to me. I know that's not the right way to put it, but I just think of her as an artist: a great singer, terrific fiddle player, fine songwriter, and one very good band leader. As a fiddler, she could be from the 1940s or from 2010; it's timeless," he says. "As a singer, she knows the rules of bluegrass and how to sing in her own voice. She's probably one of the few female singers who really knows the nuances of the Ralph Stanley vocal style."

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