Jesse McReynolds

~ "MANDOLIN MAN"~
Celebrating 61 Years in Music in 2008!
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Jesse on WSFA in Mongomery, Alabama, about 1962
About Jesse McReynolds:  Mandolin stylist known for his musical wizardry, songwriting, singing and arranging. A member of the award-winning brother duo, Jim & Jesse until Jim’s death in 2002. Grand Ole Opry member for more than 42 years. Has performed throughout Europe and Africa, as well as in the U.S. Multiple Grammy nominee and winner. Co-winner of the IBMA Instrumental Recording, "Mandolin Extravaganza". Nominated in 2005 for IBMA Instrumental Recording of the Year for his stellar collection of mostly original songs, "Bending the Rules." Currently celebrating his 60th Anniversary in music!

Best Known as a mandolin innovator and stylist. Created the intricate and hard to duplicate  "cross-picking" and "split string" styles. His virtuosity is on a plane with Paganini's impossible violin style.

Interesting facts:
Played mandolin on the Doors’ The Soft Parade album. Toured and recorded as a member of The Masters, a quartet of "superpickers" that included fiddler Kenny Baker, dobroist Josh Graves and banjoist/guitarist Eddie Adcock. Performed and recorded with the Glenville State College Percussion Ensemble.

Instruments: Mandolin,Guitar, Fiddle lead and harmony vocals.  
Jesse is an innovator who also created the Mandolobro, a combination of the mandolin and dobro.

Best-Known Albums & Songs: Berry Pickin’ In The Country (an album of Chuck Berry songs bluegrass style); Bluegrass Mandolin Extravanga (with David Grisman); Masters Of The Mandolin (with Bobby Osborne); and the hit singles "Diesel On My Tail," "Paradise," "Better Times A-Coming" and "Cotton Mill Man."

Booking Now for 2008 & beyond:          
  • Jesse McReynolds & The Virginia Boys - Bluegrass music in the Jim & Jesse tradition, plus Jesse's own styles.          
  • Jesse McReynolds as a solo featuring singing, mandolin, fiddle, & guitar. Storytelling & comedy included! 
  • Jesse McReynolds performing as a featured artist with other groups and styles of music, as he appreciates all music.
Jesse McReynolds & the Virginia Boys
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J&J Music
PO Box 1385
Gallatin, TN
37066
(615) 452-7321 
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Industry Praise:

 "To me, Jim & Jesse’s style is wonderfully unique and readily accessible to any music lover who admires originality."
--- Chuck Berry

" . . . one of our most influential and innovative mandolin players within country style music." 
--- Mike Seeger

"Jesse McReynolds has, for many years, been one of the foremost innovators in Bluegrass music, with his unique ‘crosspicking’ mandolin style. Jesse’s music has always been a model of unsurpassed technical excellence, good taste, and most importantly, genuine artistic creativity. Jesse, in short, is a musician’s musician . . . there is no better mandolin player, and no finer gentleman." 
--- Bill Vernon, Muleskinner News

"[he] can range from Bluegrass to Country to Pop to Latin-American music when he has total mastery of his instrument. Whatever a person’s musical taste may be, they’ll be impressed by the things Jesse McReynolds can do with a mandolin."
--- Hal Bruno, Washington Political Correspondent. ABC, CNN


                                                                                       

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