Peter Rowan (musician)
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Peter Rowan (b. July 4, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American bluegrass musician and composer. Rowan plays guitar and mandolin, yodels and sings.
While in high school in 1956, Peter formed the Tex-Mex group The Cupids which became locally famous and self-released a single. In 1963 he joined the Mother Bay State Entertainers and played mandolin on their record, The String Band Project.
He became a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in 1964 before forming Earth Opera with David Grisman in 1967. They frequently opened for The Doors. In 1969 he joined Seatrain along with Richard Greene. In 1973 they joined David Grisman, Jerry Garcia and John Kahn to form Old and in the Way. In 1974 Rowan, Greene, Grisman and Kahn joined Bill Keith, Clarence White, and John Guerin in the group Muleskinner. Peter has recorded and performed with his brothers, Lorin and Chris, at various times starting in 1972. Since then, he has been involved in many group and solo projects and continues to tour.
Peter composed the best-known songs performed by The New Riders of the Purple Sage: Panama Red, Midnight Moonlight, and Lonesome L.A. Cowboy.
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- Earth Opera, Earth Opera (1968)
- The Great American Eagle Tragedy, Earth Opera (1969)
- Seatrain, Seatrain (1970)
- The Marblehead Messenger, Seatrain (1971)
- Watch, Seatrain (1973)
- Muleskinner: A Potpourri Of Bluegrass Jam, Muleskinner (1974)
- The Rowans, The Rowans (1975)
- Old and In the Way, Old and In the Way (1975)
- Sibling Rivalry, The Rowans (1976)
- Jubilation, The Rowans (1977)
- Peter Rowan (1978)
- Bluegrass Album, Rowan & Greene & the Red Hot Peppers (1979)
- Hiroshima Mon Amour, Rowan & Greene & the Red Hot Peppers (1979)
- Medicine Trail (1980)
- Peter Rowan & the Wild Stallions (1981)
- Texican Badman (1981)
- The Walls of Time (1982)
- Revelry, Peter Rowan, Tex Logan & Greg Douglas (1983)
- San Antonio Sound (1983)
- Peter Rowan With The Red Hot Pickers (1984)
- Live Rockin' Tex-Mex, Flaco Jimenez and Peter Rowan (1984)
- The First Whippoorwill (1985)
- Hot Bluegrass, Peter Rowan, Bill Keith, & Jim Rooney (1985)
- San Antonio Sound (1996)
- New Moon Rising (1988)
- Dust Bowl Children (1990)
- All on a Rising Day (1991)
- Awake Me in the New World (1993)
- Tree on a Hill, Peter Rowan and the Rowan Brothers (1994)
- Muleskinner Live, Muleskinner (1994)
- That High Lonesome Sound, Old And In The Way (1996)
- Yonder, Peter Rowan and Jerry Douglas (1996)
- Bluegrass Boy (1996)
- Peter Rowan and the Wild Stallions (1996)
- New Freedom Bell, Druhá Tráva and Peter Rowan (1999)
- Reggaebilly (2001)
- High Lonesome Cowboy, Don Edwards and Peter Rowan (2002)
- Old & In The Gray, Old & In The Gray (2002)
- Crazy People, The Rowan Brothers (2003)
- You Were There for Me, Peter Rowan & Tony Rice (2004)
- Quartet, Peter Rowan & Tony Rice (2007)
