Jason Wilber
Encyclopedia
Jason Wilber is an American
folk/acoustic guitarist
. His five CDs comprise Lost in Your Hometown, Behind the Midway, King for a Day, Live and Otherwise Volume 1 and Lazy Afternoon. He has played with other artists, including
John Prine
, Hal Ketchum
, Greg Brown, Iris DeMent
, Todd Snider
, Greg Trooper
, Carrie Newcomer
and Tim Grimm.
Jason and John Prine have produced two Grammy Award
-nominated albums, Live On Tour and In Spite of Ourselves (which spent 32 weeks on the Billboard Country Charts
), as well as the 2006 Grammy-winning album Fair & Square
.
United States
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folk/acoustic guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
. His five CDs comprise Lost in Your Hometown, Behind the Midway, King for a Day, Live and Otherwise Volume 1 and Lazy Afternoon. He has played with other artists, including
John Prine
John Prine
John Prine is an American country/folk singer-songwriter. He has been active as a recording artist and live performer since the early 1970s.-Biography:...
, Hal Ketchum
Hal Ketchum
Hal Michael Ketchum is an American country music artist. He has released ten studio albums since 1986, including nine for the Curb and Asylum-Curb labels. Ketchum's 1991 album Past the Point of Rescue is his most commercially successful, having been certified gold by the Recording Industry...
, Greg Brown, Iris DeMent
Iris DeMent
Iris DeMent is an American singer and songwriter. DeMent's musical style encompasses the genres country and folk music.-Early life:...
, Todd Snider
Todd Snider
Todd Daniel Snider is an American singer-songwriter with a musical style that combines Americana, alt-country, and folk.-Biography:...
, Greg Trooper
Greg Trooper
- Greg Trooper :Born in Neptune, NJ January 13, 1956, Greg Trooper is a singer/songwriter whose songs have been recorded by many artists including Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, and Vince Gill. As a teenager in the early 1970s, Trooper would frequent the folk clubs of Greenwich Village taking in the...
, Carrie Newcomer
Carrie Newcomer
Carrie Newcomer is an American singer and songwriter.-Early life and education:Carrie Newcomer was born in Dowagiac, Michigan, and raised in Elkhart, Indiana. She attended Goshen College and received a B.A...
and Tim Grimm.
Jason and John Prine have produced two Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
-nominated albums, Live On Tour and In Spite of Ourselves (which spent 32 weeks on the Billboard Country Charts
Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine...
), as well as the 2006 Grammy-winning album Fair & Square
Fair & Square
Fair & Square is an album by American folk singer-songwriter John Prine, released on Oh Boy Records in 2005. Three versions were released: a standard CD, an Extended Play CD with four bonus tracks, and a vinyl version with the same four bonus tracks....
.