Wil Maring performs her original composition, bluegrassy-folk-country-pop ,song "Window Seat", with Robert Bowlin, winner at the Finger/Flatpicking Guitar Championship in Winfield on guitar. Like this? Subscribe! www.youtube.com/wilmaring
Wil Maring and virtuose guitarist and fiddler Robert Bowlin have been recently combining talents to create beautiful original acoustic music which straddles the fence between bluegrass, folk and country music. Wil's beautiful airy vocal style and heartfelt lyrics have raised the eyebrows of the acoustic music world in recent years with the release of her three solo cds and four band cds with her band Shady Mix. Robert, a two-time National Fingerpicking and Flatpicking Guitar contest winner, has been a band member with legendary artists like Bill Monroe, Maura O Connell, Kathy Mattea, the Osborne Brothers, and many more. Their music will leave audiences spellbound long after the show is over. For bigger venues, Wil sometimes appears with whole band, Shady Mix, which includes instrumental lineup of upright bass, fiddle, mandolin, and sometimes banjo.
Mixture of bluegrass, oldtime, folk, country, and even a little pop. Wide variety of influences, and live show includes a heavy emphasis on originals, but also bluegrass and country standards, fiddle tunes, and cowboy and western swing music. Current favorite artists and influences are wide and varied.... Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Martin, James Taylor, John Hartford, John Prine, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Flatt and Scruggs, Bob Wills, Asleep at the Wheel, Tony Rice, Hot Rize, Dougie MacLean, Kate Rusby, Lyle Lovett, Kim Richey, Patty Griffin, Lucy Kaplansky, Nanci Griffith and so many more... from my youth: Dan Fogelberg, John Denver, Jackson Browne, Eagles, and many bluegrass artists.
Robert Bowlin started at age 1 and a half playing the ukelele, graduated to his dad's guitar at age 5, and has been creating unique and beautiful guitar music ever since. He won the National Finge KS in 1979 and got 2nd in the Flatpicking Guitar Contest in 1978. His professional career has included stints with artists such as Maura O' Connell, Kathy Mattea, Tom T. Hall, the Osborne Brothers, Bill Monroe, Ray Price, Bobby Bare, Faron Young, Ricky Van Shelton. He was a session guitarist and fiddler in Nashville for countless recordings. He has played onstage with artists such as BB King and Ricky Skaggs, Tony Rice, Peter Rowan, and Vassar Clements.
If you like any of the following you might like Wil: Shawn Colvin, Suzanne Vega, Alison Krauss, Rhonda Vincent, Sam Bush, Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Rob Ickes, Dolly parton, Iris Dement, Claire Lynch, Martha Scanlan, Emmylou Harris, Kennedy Rose , Nanci Griffith,
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Wow, this is so relaxing.
241hnd 8 months ago
Song has it all words that tell a beautiful story and music to match!
fngrpkn06 8 months ago
wow I really like this. I went to high school with Wil's brother and a friend on FB told me to look up Wil on here. Very pretty song and voice.
AmazedbyHisgrace1 1 year ago
Beautiful! Love it!
MauroPavanelli 1 year ago
Beautiful. I wish I had been watching more of these videos before now. Then I would have placed your faces with your names when you arrived at the door at Station Inn Thursday night. ---
fiddlefeller 1 year ago
You always amaze me in the way you write songs that are so perfect for your voice. It just comes so natural. You are a beautiful instrument sent from the Angels.
1RobHand 1 year ago
Beautiful!!
jonzflicks 2 years ago
very nice song thanks
greggoju 2 years ago
great song and perfect performence - I like it very much - thanks for listening
WolfgangRaetz 3 years ago
such a beautiful song! could you please post the lyrics of this song... thanks to both of you for sharing...
labonilcny 3 years ago