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IS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND - NOW IN THEIR 43RD YEAR.
JOHN HAS MADE OVER 40 ALBUMS (6 SOLO) THAT HAVE EARNED 4 PLATINUM AND 5 GOLD RECOGNITION AWARDS, GRAMMY NOMINATIONS, CMA AND ACM AWARDS, EMMY NOMINATION, IBMA RECORD OF THE YEAR AWARD, AND PERFORMED ON ANOTHER 25 ALBUMS AS GUEST ARTIST.
MCEUEN INSTIGATED WHAT ROLLING STONE (IN 1972) CALLED “THE MOST IMPORTANT RECORD TO COME OUT OF NASHVILLE” AND WHAT THE 2004 ZAGAT SURVEY CALLED “THE MOST IMPORTANT RECORD IN COUNTRY MUSIC” - WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN - AND IN 2006 WAS NAMED BY CMT AS ONE OF THE 40 MOST IMPORTANT ALBUMS IN COUNTRY MUSIC.
JOHN IS THE ONLY CALIFORNIA MUSICIAN TO PERFORM SOLO ON THE GRAND OLE OPRY, THEN PLAY IT SEVERAL TIMES WITH HIS BAND NGDB, AND THEN BE A FEATURED GUEST “SITTIN' IN”WITH SEVERAL OF THE OPRY MEMBER ACTS - AND RECORDED WITH NASHVILLE'S COUNTRY MUSIC CREATORS, AND HAD RECORDS IN THE POP AND COUNTRY CHARTS.
JOHN'S MOST RECENT PRODUCTION, STEVE MARTIN - THE CROW NEW SONGS FOR THE 5-STRING BANJO FEATURES ALL MARTIN ORIGINALS WITH GUESTS VINCE GILL, DOLLY PARTON, TONY TRISCHKA, MARY BLACK, EARL SCRUGGS, PETE WERNICK, STUART DUNCAN, JERRY DOUGLAS, TIM O'BRIEN, DAVID AMRAM, HANS OLSON, JOHN AND OTHERS ON THIS HIGHLY ACCLAIMED CD, AVAILABLE ON ROUNDER RECORDS AND ITUNES. IT IS CURRENTLY LIVING AT THE #1 SPOT ON THE BLUEGRASS CHARTS WHILE IT CLIMBS UP THE OTHERS.
ALSO, TO BE RELEASED (ON SUGARHILL RECORDS), THE FIRST NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND ALBUM IN MANY YEARS, SPEED OF LIFE, PRODUCED BY GEORGE MASSENBURG.. SEPT. 22.
RELEASED JULY OF '07 - THE SESAME STREET DVD - CHILDREN'S FAVORITE COUNTRY SONGS. MCEUEN SINGS AND PLAYS OH, SUSANNAH WITH 50 GOATS, A COW AND TWO DOZEN KIDS (HUMAN ONES)! ALSO FEATURED ON OTHER SONGS ARE LEE ANN WOMACK, TIM MCGRAW, ALLISON KRAUSS, GARTH BROOKS .
MCEUEN FINISHED THE SCORES FOR THREE DOCUMENTARY FILMS IN 2008: MAYNARD DIXON - ART & SPIRIT ; SIZZLE - A GLOBAL WARMING COMEDY; AND LOSING THE WEST.
JOHN'S XM RADIO SHOW - ACOUSTIC TRAVELLER - (CHANNEL 15), IS NOW IN ITS 4TH YEAR.
THE MUSIC OF THE WILD WEST CD- PRODUCED BY JOHN, WAS HONORED WITH THE WESTERN HERITAGE AWARD AND RELEASED JUNE/2007 ON VARESE/SARABANDE LABEL. JOHN CALLS IT “THE WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN OF 1890.” (MCEUEN HAS CREATED MUSIC SCORES FOR 13 FILM PROJECTS, INCLUDING THE EMMY NOMINATED 10-HOUR MINI-SERIES THE WILD WEST FOR WARNER BROS., FROM WHICH HE MADE THIS CD)
ALSO ON VARESE/SARABANDE (RELEASED 2006) IS THE DOCUMENTARY FILM THE DILLARDS - A NIGHT IN THE OZARKS, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY JOHN IN 1992, SHOT WITH 5 CAMERAS AND LIVE MUSIC AND CAPTURING HIS EARLY MENTORS AT THEIR BEST.
MCEUEN PRODUCED OVER 300 CONCERTS (FIRST ONE IN 1965 LONG BEACH, CAL., WITH BOB DYLAN).
RELEASED WINTER 2007: THE LIVE LAS VEGAS CONCERT WITH THE JAM BAND PHISH, RECORDED IN '98.. FEATURES JOHN AS A GUEST MUSICIAN.
HAVING KNOWN STEVE MARTIN SINCE THEIR TEENAGE YEARS WORKING IN DISNEYLAND, MCEUEN, IS FEATURED ON A TWO-HOUR A & E BIOGRAPHY SPECIAL ABOUT STEVE. (JOHN SCORED STEVE'S FIRST TWO NBC TELEVISION SPECIALS; THE NGDB WAS 'THE BAND' ON STEVE'S KING TUT)
MCEUEN WAS PRESENTED WITH THE 1994 UNCLE DAVE MACON AWARD FOR HIS EXCELLENCE IN AND PURSUIT OF PRESERVING HISTORIC MUSIC.
HE HAS CONTINUALLY PERFORMED - OVER 7,000 SHOWS - AND TRAVELED 3 MILLION MILES TO DO IT … AND PERFORMED ON OVER 250 TELEVISION SHOWS, BOTH WITH THE BAND, OTHERS, AND SOLO, AS WELL AS PRODUCING SHOWS FOR TELEVISION
JOHN HAS ALSO RAISED HIS 6 KIDS (5 BOYS AND A GIRL) AGES BETWEEN 29-39, AND A 25-YEAR-OLD STEPSON (HIS WIFE MARILYN'S SON) AND HAS 7 GRANDCHILDREN.
SOME OF THE ARTISTS MCEUEN HAS PERFORMED OR RECORDED WITH INCLUDE: DOLLY PARTON, STEVE MARTIN, WILLIE NELSON, BILL WYMAN, JOHNNY CASH, JUNE CARTER, JERRY GARCIA, BIG HEAD TODD AND THE MONSTERS, PHISH, JERRY JEFF WALKER, KEVIN NEALON, ALISON KRAUSS, BILL COSBY, STEPHEN WRIGHT, MARK O'CONNOR, TOMMY LEE JONES, SISSY SPACEK, LINDA RONSTADT, LEON RUSSELL, MAYBELLE CARTER, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, BOB DYLAN, KENNY ROGERS, STEVE VAI, DOC WATSON, JIMMY BUFFET, THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS, ROWAN & MARTIN, MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER, BOBBY SHERMAN, JOSE FELICIANO, ALLMAN BROTHERS, JOHN DENVER, ROY ACUFF, EARL SCRUGGS, JACK BENNY, GLEN CAMPBELL, STEVE GOODMAN, WAYLON JENNINGS, ROBIN WILLIAMS, LITTLE RIVER BAND, MARSHALL TUCKER BAND, DOOBIE BROTHERS, ANDY WILLIAMS, MERLE TRAVIS, VASSAR CLEMENTS, DIZZY GILLESPIE, THE OSMOND BROTHERS, EVERLY BROTHERS, CRYSTAL GAYLE, GARY MORRIS, DOUG KERSHAW, MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY, THE DOORS, DONOVAN, LEE MARVIN, RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOT, DAVID AMRAM, ARLO GUTHRIE, AMERICA, BILL MONROE, ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL, AEROSMITH… AND OTHERS.
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