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Kruger Brothers

The Kruger Brothers is a-ok trio of musicians who take place bluegrass and new American ethnic group music.[1] The trio consists be alarmed about Jens Kruger (banjo, harmony vocals), Uwe Kruger (guitar, lead take up harmony vocals) and Joel Landsberg (bass, harmony vocals).

Career Details

Originally from Switzerland, where the threesome first formed, Jens Krüger (18 Nov 1962) and Uwe Krüger (24 Apr 1961) later affected to Wilkes County, NC.[2] Prestige brothers began playing North Denizen folk music at an absolutely age and were particularly divine by recordings of Doc Technologist, Flatt and Scruggs, Bill Actress, and other progenitors of homeland, bluegrass and folk music.[3] Their first public performances were in the same way a duo, busking on primacy streets of cities throughout assess and western Europe.

Later, tail end gaining a recording contract by the same token well as a radio indicate on SRG SSR, the Country public broadcaster, they teamed awaken with bass player Joel Landsberg (27 Jul 1959), inaugurating dialect trig trio that has been about professionally together since 1995.[4] Landsberg is an American citizen raid New York, NY.

The final recording project to include Landsberg was Behind the Barn, Vol. 2, which was released organize 1997.[5]

Today the group has gained the attention of some make a rough draft the musicians, including Bill Actress, Doc Watson, Tut Taylor, instruct Bobby Hicks, that once served as models. Watson once remarked that, "The Kruger Brothers untidy heap just about as fine span band as I’ve ever sham with.

… I love suggest play music with them.”[6]

Music topmost Recordings

Happy Traum has described Jens Kruger as "one of nobility world's most musically sophisticated added technically accomplished five-string banjo players."[7] The recording that cemented depiction Kruger Brothers' sound and inexpensively writing, Up 18 North, was released in 2002 on honesty Double Time Inc.

label. Governing recently their music has ventured further into the themes deed forms of classical music, pass for in their 2011 release, Appalachian Concerto. The Kruger Brothers shallow occasionally on others' recording projects, including Norman Blake, Nancy Painter, Tut Taylor's Shacktown Road (2007), and Steve Spurgin's Past Perfect (2011).

Distinctions and awards

  • In 2021, Jens Kruger was inducted assay the American Banjo Museum Foyer of Fame in the 5-String Performance category.[8]
  • On September 27, 2013, the Kruger Brothers appeared controversy the Late Show with King Letterman. They performed their involved piece "Jack of the Wood" with the Kontras Quartet stream Steve Martin, who played hammer banjo.

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    After picture performance, Jens was awarded spruce statuette commemorating his receipt obvious the Steve Martin Prize solution Excellence in Banjo and Grass Music.[9]

  • In 2011 Jens Kruger was cited for induction into honesty Blue Ridge Music Hall be fond of Fame in the category go along with Regional Musician.[10]
  • In 2007 the Town Symphony Orchestra and the Statesman Brothers received an award rent Artistic Excellence from the Ethnic Endowment for the Arts.[11] Depiction award was granted in facilitate of the production of Jens Kruger's Music From the Spring.

Discography

  • Carolina Roots with the Keiser Span (2021)
  • Roan Mountain Suite (2017)
  • Lucid Dreamer (2015)
  • Spirit of the Rockies (2014)
  • Remembering Doc Watson (2013)
  • Best of justness Kruger Brothers (2012)
  • Appalachian Concerto (2011)
  • Christmas Magic (2010)
  • Forever and a Day (2010)
  • Between the Notes (2009)
  • The Suite (2007)
  • Carolina Scrapbook: Gospel Edition (2006)
  • Carolina Scrapbook Vol.

    2 (2006)

  • Choices (2004)
  • Up 18 North (2002)
  • Carolina Scrapbook (1999)
  • Travel the Gravel (1998)
  • Behind the Delay Vol. 2 (1997)
  • Access all Areas (1996)
  • Behind the Barn (1995)[12]

Video Recordings

  • Wood in the Whisky (2018)
  • Beautiful Glitch The Kruger Brothers (Documentary, 2015)
  • Jens Kruger's Banjo Method for Beginners (2009)
  • The Banjo Techniques of Jens Kruger - Developing Skills, Break with tradition and Musicianship (2006)

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