Lou Reid Dudley Connell Ron Stewart Ronnie Simpkins Fred Travers
Past members
John Duffey Mike Auldridge Ben Eldridge Tom Gray John Starling Phil Rosenthal T. Michael Coleman Moondi Klein Rickie Simpkins
Website
seldomscene.com
The Seldom Scene is an American bluegrass band that formed in 1971 in Bethesda, Maryland.[1] The band's original line-up comprised John Starling on lead vocals and guitar, Mike Auldridge on Dobro and baritone vocals, Ben Eldridge on banjo, Tom Gray on double bass, and John Duffey on mandolin; the latter three also provided backing vocals. Together they released their debut studio album, Act I, in 1972, followed by both Act II and Act III in 1973.
In 1977, Starling left the group and was replaced by singer-songwriter Phil Rosenthal. Starling and Rosenthal shared lead vocals on the group's sixth studio album, Baptizing, released in 1978. Around the same time, the group switched record labels from Rebel Records to Sugar Hill Records. In 1986, Rosenthal and Gray left the band, and were replaced by Lou Reid and T. Michael Coleman, respectively; Reid and Coleman first appeared on the band's 1988 album A Change of Scenery. Reid left the band in 1992, and Starling briefly returned to the group, performing on their 1994 album Like We Used to Be. Starling was replaced by Moondi Klein as the band's lead singer.
During 1995 and 1996, Klein, Coleman, and Auldridge, left the Seldom Scene to form a new band called Chesapeake. Duffey and Eldridge recruited guitarist Fred Travers, bassist Ronnie Simpkins, and guitarist and singer Dudley Connell into the Seldom Scene, and together released the album Dream Scene in 1996. That same year, Duffey died of a heart attack. Reid returned to the band to replace Duffey on mandolin, and the group released the album Scene It All in 2000. The group's 2007 album Scenechronized was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. The band's original members (Auldridge, Duffey, Eldridge, Gray, and Starling) were inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2014.
^Paul Kingsbury (5 November 1998). The Encyclopedia of Country Music: The Ultimate Guide to the Music. Oxford University Press. pp. 475–. ISBN 978-0-19-984044-1.
1954) is an American bluegrass singer and musician, bandleader of TheSeldomScene. Reid grew up on a tobacco farm in Moore Springs, North Carolina. His...
mid-teens, largely due to his father, a founding member of the seminal bluegrass group TheSeldomScene. Eldridge later studied at Oberlin Conservatory, where...
American singer in the bluegrass tradition. He is best known for his work with the Johnson Mountain Boys, Longview, and TheSeldomScene. Connell grew up...
mandolinist in the bluegrass tradition. He is best known for his solo albums and his work with the Lonesome River Band and theSeldomScene. Simpkins was...
member of the seminal bluegrass group TheSeldomScene. Ben Eldridge was born in Richmond, Virginia on August 15, 1938. He began playing the guitar at...
and TheSeldomScene have the most nominations without a win, with four. In 2018, the first tie in the history of the category occurred, with the award...
(Dobro) player. In addition to his solo albums and recordings with theSeldomScene, he has been featured as a performer and collaborator on numerous albums...
release of 1970 Miles Davis sessions at the club Live at The Cellar Door, 1975 album by TheSeldomScene Live at the Cellar Door, 2013 album by Neil Young...
singing voice. He founded two of the most influential groups in bluegrass, The Country Gentlemen and TheSeldomScene. His tastes and sources were eclectic...
Bluegrass versions were recorded by The Country Gentlemen on their album 25 Years and TheSeldomScene on their album Act I. The Hooters recorded a version of...
music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in other closely related roles, who died...
TheSeldomScene, Diamond Version (with Neil Tennant), Bayard Rustin, Rajaton, Millennial Choirs and Orchestras, and Chris Rice. A writer from the Indianapolis...
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Live at The Cellar Door is a live album by the progressive bluegrass Maryland band TheSeldomScene. The Washington Post called it "not only a landmark...
Scene It all is an album by the progressive bluegrass Maryland band theSeldomScene, released in 2000. Ben Eldridge re-recruited Lou Reid, this time on...
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