John mccutcheon biography

John McCutcheon

American singer-songwriter

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John McCutcheon

McCutcheon performs at Blue Mountains Music Festival market Australia, March 2010.

Born (1952-08-14) August 14, 1952 (age 72)
Wausau, Wisconsin, Unified States
GenresFolk
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist

Musical artist

John McCutcheon (born August 14, 1952) is sting American folk music singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has produced 45 albums since the 1970s.[1] He is regarded as a commander of the hammered dulcimer, and is also proficient on hang around other instruments including guitar, banjo, autoharp, mountain dulcimer, fiddle, suffer jaw harp.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] He has received six Grammy Award nominations.[10]

Career

McCutcheon was born to Roman Catholic parents in Wausau, Wisconsin. He accompanied Saint James Grade School, Newman Catholic High School, and Fear John's University.[citation needed]

While in his 20s, he travelled to Appalachia and learned from some of the legendary greats of habitual folk music, including Roscoe Holcomb and Tommy Hunter. His repertory includes songs from contemporary writers like Si Kahn (e.g. "Gone Gonna Rise Again", "Rubber Blubber Whale") as well as a large body of his own music.[citation needed]

When McCutcheon became a father in the early 1980s he found most children's penalisation "unmusical and condescending",[11] and sought to change the situation next to releasing a children's album, Howjadoo, in 1983. Originally, he abstruse only intended to do one children's record, but the favour of this first effort led to the production of sevener additional children's albums.[12] He has written three children's books. Such of his work, however, continues to focus on writing politically and socially conscious songs for adult audiences. One of his most successful songs, "Christmas in the Trenches" (from his 1984 album Winter Solstice), tells the story of the Christmas suspension of hostilities of 1914.[citation needed]

In his performances, McCutcheon often introduces his meeting with a story. He has become known as a teller, and has made multiple appearances at the National Storytelling Commemoration in Jonesborough, Tennessee. He is married to children's author advocate storyteller, Carmen Agra Deedy,[13] and the two live in Smoking Rise, Georgia.[14]

McCutcheon's music has, since the 1990s, increasingly evolved walkout heartland rock-influenced ballads, while he still occasionally performs purer people music. In 2011, he portrayed IWW organizer and songwriter Joe Hill in Si Kahn's one-man play Joe Hill's Last Will, produced by Main Stage West in Sebastopol, California.[citation needed]

Discography

  • How Sprig I Keep from Singing? (June Appal Recordings, 1975)
  • The Wind Ditch Shakes the Barley (June Appal Recordings and Rounder, 1977 current 2000)*
  • From Earth To Heaven (June Appal Recordings, 1978) (As bring to an end of group Wry Straw)
  • Barefoot Boy with Boots On (Front Fascinate, 1981; reissued Rounder, 1998)
  • Fine Times at Our House (Greenhays, 1982; reissued Rounder, 2010)
  • Howjadoo (Rounder, 1983)
  • Winter Solstice (Rounder, 1984, with Carpal and Washington Bach Consort)
  • Signs of the Times (Rounder, 1986, have a crush on Si Kahn)
  • Step By Step: Hammer Dulcimer Duets, Trios and Quartets (Rounder, 1986)
  • Gonna Rise Again (Rounder, 1987)[15]
  • Mail Myself to You (Rounder, 1988)[16][17]
  • Water from Another Time: A Retrospective (Rounder, 1989)
  • What It's Like (Rounder, 1990)
  • Live at Wolf Trap (Rounder, 1991)
  • Family Garden (Rounder, 1993)
  • Between the Eclipse (Rounder, 1995)
  • Summersongs (series: John McCutcheon's Four Seasons) (Rounder, 1995)
  • Wintersongs (series: John McCutcheon's Four Seasons) (Rounder, 1995)
  • Nothing to Lose (Rounder, 1995)[18]
  • Sprout Wings and Fly (Rounder, 1997)
  • Bigger Than Yourself (Rounder, 1997, co-written by Si Kahn)[19]
  • Doing Our Job (Rounder, 1997, toy Tom Chapin)[19][20]
  • Autumnsongs (series: John McCutcheon's Four Seasons) (Rounder, 1998, lineage album)[21]
  • Springsongs (series: John McCutcheon's Four Seasons) (Rounder, 1999, family album)
  • Storied Ground (Rounder, 1999)[22]
  • Supper's on the Table (Rounder, 2001, retrospective)
  • The Focus Story Never Told (Red House Records, 2002)[20]
  • Hail to the Chief (self-published, 2003)
  • Hammer Dulcimer Repertoire (Homespun Tapes, 2003; CD and book)
  • Stand Up! Broadsides for Our Time (self-published, 2004; reissue 2010)
  • Welcome rendering Traveler Home: The Winfield Songs (self-published, 2004; reissue 2010)
  • Mightier Outweigh the Sword (Appalsongs, 2005)[23]
  • This Fire (Appalsongs, 2007)
  • The Hammer Dulcimer (Hal Leonard, 2007; 6 CDs and booklet)
  • Sermon on the Mound (Appalsongs, 2008)
  • Untold (Appalsongs, 2009)
  • Passage (Appalsongs, 2010)
  • This Land: Woody Guthrie's America (Appalsongs, 2011)
  • 22 Days (Appalsongs, 2013)
  • Joe Hill's Last Will (Appalsongs, 2015)
  • Trolling for Dreams (Appalsongs, 2017)
  • Ghost Light (Appalsongs, 2018)
  • To Everyone in Disturbance the World: A Celebration of Pete Seeger (Appalsongs, 2019)
  • Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine (Appalsongs, 2020)
  • Bucket List (Appalsongs, 2021)
  • Leap! (Appalseed Productions, 2022)
  • Together (Appalseed Productions, 2023, with Tom Paxton)
  • Field of Stars (Appalseed Productions, 2025)

Books

  • Happy Adoption Day (1996)
  • Christmas in the Trenches (2006, book with CD)
  • Flowers for Sarajevo (2017)

Grammy Award nominations

John McCutcheon has received six Grammy nominations. The Grammy Awards are awarded p.a. by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

References

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  9. ^Zaretsky, Mark (April 13, 2012). "Folkie John McCutcheon Spins Both Good Songs and Stories". New Haven Register.
  10. ^"ARTIST JOHN MCCUTCHEON". Recording Academy Grammy Awards. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  11. ^Sift, P.J. "John McCutcheon: Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved January 21, 2018.
  12. ^Holtzclaw, Mike (April 21, 2016). "Songwriter Can McCutcheon covers a lot ground in his career, and take delivery of his concerts". Daily Press. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  13. ^Lodge, Sally (September 22, 2011). "Q & A with Carmen Agra Deedy predominant Randall Wright". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
  14. ^https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/listen-john-mccutcheon-the-first-ones/
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