IVAN ROSENBERG: Back to the Pasture - Bluegrass Dobro

Ivan Rosenberg

Back to the Pasture - Bluegrass Dobro

© 2002 Ivan Rosenberg (675604179027)

Original modern bluegrass by dobro (resonator guitar) player Ivan Rosenberg along with some of the West Coast's top acoustic musicians. Songs heard in HBO's "Deadwood" and other shows.

tracks

1 Pepperwood Hollow
2 Back to the Pasture
3 Last Light
4 I've Gotta Get a Message to You
5 Devil's Chute
6 Out Among the Corn
7 Somebody Loves You Darling
8 Split the Switch
9 Soda Springs
10 Late Night Ramble

notes

****CD is permanently out of stock, but it's available at iTunes and other digital outlets****
Ivan's latest CDs are available on CD Baby: "Clawhammer and Dobro," "Ashes and Coals," and the debut CD by the band Mighty Squirrel.
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Bio:Resonator guitarist and clawhammer banjo player Ivan Rosenberg has released 4 CDs of original music—Clawhammer and Dobro, Ashes and Coals, Back to the Pasture, and The Lost Coast—and an instructional DVD. According to Bluegrass Unlimited magazine, "It is only a matter of time until Ivan Rosenberg becomes universally recognized as one of the more prolific masters of the resonator guitar." Ivan has performed and/or recorded with Julie Elkins, Hit & Run Bluegrass, Slow Drag, The Breakmen, Billy Cardine, Mike Grigoni, Chad Manning, Jake Schepps, Iron Lasso, Chris Glass, Chris Stuart & Backcountry, and other bluegrass and Americana acts.

Ivan has led seminars at the Sore Fingers Week bluegrass workshop in the United Kingdom (2004), the British Columbia Bluegrass Workshop (BCBW) in Canada (2003-2005), and the California Bluegrass Association music camp in California (2004, 2005).

Ivan’s original music has appeared in several film and television scores including Jerry Bruckheimer/Warner Brothers Films' Kangaroo Jack (2003), HBO's Making Deadwood: The Show Behind the Show (2004), Comedy Central's The Daily Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and High Plains Films' acclaimed documentary Libby, Montana (2004).

TV/Film Score Highlights and Select Discography

* Television Comedy Central TV series "The Daily Show" (January 6 episode)
* The Oprah Winfrey Show: "Oprah's Favorite Sandwich in America"
* HBO series/DVD: "Deadwood: The Complete First Season - Making Deadwood Featurette"
* CMT/Kinky Friedman series: "Go Kinky"
* HBO Series: "Cathouse"
* CMT series: "The Ultimate Coyote Ugly Search"
* CMT Insider Special Edition: "Larry the Cable Guy"
* The Biography Channel show: "The Writers: Tolstoy"
* CMT series: "Muzik Mafia"
* MTV: "Your Movie Show: Dukes of Hazzard"
* Animal Planet show: "White House Pets"
* History Channel show: "Investigating History"
* MTV: "Room Raiders"
* VH1 show: "Child Star Babylon"
* Discovery Channel show/DVD: "Extreme Engineering: Cooper River Bridge"
* VH1 series: "Driven: Tim McGraw"

* Film Warner Brothers/Jerry Bruckheimer Film/DVD: "Kangaroo Jack"
* Universal Studios Sci Fi DVD: "Serenity"
* High Plains Films Documentary (narrated by Christopher Reeve): "American Values/American Wilderness"
* High Plains Films Documentary original music: "Caught in the Headlights"
* High Plains Films 2004 Documentary/2005 DVD: "Libby, Montana"

* CDs: Ivan Rosenberg and Billy Cardine: "The Donkeys"
* Mighty Squirrel
* Ivan Rosenberg & Mike Conroy: "The Old Spinning Wheel"
* Ivan Rosenberg: "Clawhammer and Dobro"
* The Breakmen (dobro/producer): "The Breakmen"
* Julie Elkins and David Thompson: "My Feet Won't Miss this Ground"
* Lorenzo Gangi: "Fistful of Lonesome"
* Jake Shepps: "Expedition"
* Ivan Rosenberg CD: “Ashes and Coals”
* Slow Drag CD: "Slow Fidelity"
* IBMA World of Bluegrass Showcase Artist Compilation CD
* Chris Stuart & Backcountry CD: “Mojave River”
* Chad Manning CD: “Old Gnarly Oak”
* Chris Stuart & Backcountry CD: “Saints and Strangers"
* Iron Lasso CD: “Live in Parkfield”
* Ivan Rosenberg CD: “Back to the Pasture”
* Ivan Rosenberg CD (OOP): “The Lost Coast” (2001)

* Instructional: Learn Roots Music DVD: "Bluegrass Dobro with Ivan Rosenberg"
* Monthly resonator guitar column for Mel Bay's Guitar Sessions

Highlights:

* Pickathon, OR (2007)
* San Francisco Bluegrass and Old Time Festival (2007)
* Beanblossom "Uncle Pen Days" Bluegrass Festival, IN (2006)
* Blueberry Bluegrass Festival, Edmonton AB (2006)
* Wintergrass (Reso-Mania) (2006)
* Grand Targhee Bluegrass Festival (2005)
* RockyGrass, Lyons, CO (2005)
* British Columbia Bluegrass Workshop (2003-2006)
* Vancouver Island Music Festival (2005)
* California Bluegrass Association Music Camp and Father's Day Festival (2004, 2005)
* IBMA official showcase, Louisville, KY (2004)
* Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival, NJ (2004)
* Sore Fingers Week Bluegrass School in England (2004)
* Darrington Bluegrass Festival, WA (2004)
* Sisters Folk Festival, OR (2004)
* Blythe Bluegrass Festival, CA (2004)
* Tri-State Festival, Kendalville, IN (2004)
* Bluegrass on the River Festival, AZ (2004)
* 2nd Place at Telluride Band Contest with Nine Pound Hammer (2000); 4th Place with The Crazy Water String Band (1996)

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BACK TO THE PASTURE liner notes by Dave Higgs of Nashville Public Radio:

Along with the fiddle, the resonator guitar, or Dobro®, is perhaps the most expressive of all the bluegrass instruments. Its easy access to microtones, hastened by the use of a slide, gives it a unique ability to emulate the human voice. In the right hands, the resonator guitar is eminently capable of duplicating a myriad of emotions - from a jubilant, euphoric shout all the way to a primeval, gut-wrenching moan. In the right hands, it becomes an instrument of impassioned feeling, dark mystery and great beauty. Ivan Rosenberg has those "right hands."

Ivan understands that great reso playing starts and ends with emphasizing the important parts of the melody. And what melodies he plays on "Back to the Pasture," his sterling follow-up to "The Lost Coast," his highly acclaimed 2001 debut.

"Back to the Pasture" traverses an immense expanse of bluegrassical ground, drawing upon the pop sounds of the Bee Gees, Neanderthal-grass from Wiley & Zeke Morris and eight mesmerizing, memorable and mouth-wateringly fine originals from Ivan's fertile musical imagination. That imagination and flair for the dramatic was operating in overdrive on "Late Night Ramble," co-written with buddy Jason Mowery - a dobrolic romp as big as those spacious Montana skies that inspired it. Ivan and Jason also collaborated on the high, lonesome "Out Among the Corn," which pays instrumental tribute to those endless fields of corn that run rampant in Jason's home state of Indiana.

The group does a fine job bluegrassizing the Bee Gees' "I've Gotta Get a Message to You," which Cliff Waldron originally brought into the bluegrass camp in the early 70's. Thanks to Lost Highway singer Ken Orrick, this improbable tune becomes vintage sounding bluegrass. Eric Uglum handles the lead vocal on the Morris Brothers' plaintive old ballad, "Somebody Loves You Darling," on which Ivan shines with some tasty, relaxed and understated old-school dobro complete with palm harmonics and some of the prettiest fills you'll ever hear.

Ivan is also a sublime clawhammer banjo player and he gets to strut his considerable talents on the chilling, spooky and Ozark-flavored "Devil's Chute," played in tandem with fiddler Chad Clouse of Due West, as well as on "Soda Springs," an exuberant old-timey tour de force.

"Last Light" spotlights the lyrical quality of Ivan's composing - a lush and gorgeous melody that's deeply moving. "Pepperwood Hollow" starts with a measured and moody reso introduction before the band kicks it into high gear. The group really goes to town on the title track, a hard-driving, righteous, ultra-bluegrassy romp that would make Uncle Josh proud.

The backup musicians deserve special praise for their immeasurable contributions to the project. Jason Mowery is a monster on the fiddle and mandolin, and Eric Uglum's guitar work is itself almost worth the price of admission. Marshall Andrews keeps everyone rock-solidly on the beat with his interesting bass lines and Janet Beazley sparkles on the banjo. "Crazy Pat" Conway's piercing tenor vocal on "Somebody Loves You Darling" makes for one of the album's many highlights.

"Back to the Pasture" spotlights the resonator guitar's storied past and paints a vivid portrait of its future. And in the multi-talented hands of Ivan Rosenberg, that future looks bright indeed.

Dave Higgs
Bluegrass Breakdown
Nashville Public Radio
Nashville, TN

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  • It is only a matter of time until Ivan Rosenberg becomes universally recognized
    author: Les McIntyre, Bluegrass Unlimited

    For this latest recording project, resonator guitarist Ivan Rosenberg has amassed an impressive supporting cast to create a mostly instrumental package featuring such original numbers as "Pepperwood Hollow," "Devil's Chute," Soda Springs," and "Late Night Ramble." However there are a couple of impressive vocal entries including Eric Uglum's interpretation of "Somebody Loves You Darling" and Lost Highway's Ken Orrick gliding through the Bee Gees classic "I've Gotta Get a Message to You." From the contents of "Back To The Pasture," it is only a matter of time until Ivan Rosenberg becomes universally recognized as one of the more prolific masters of the resonator guitar.

  • This is just plain good music. Recommended.
    author: Bill Yates, Roots 66.com

    Ivan Rosenberg has followed up his very good album "The Lost Coast" with this effort, proving he is not a one-hit wonder. "Back to the Pasture" is another excellent collection of original Rosenberg compositions (eight of them) and two well-arranged covers, one of the BeeGees "I've Gotta Get a Message to You" and the other of the Morris Brothers' "Somebody Loves You Darling." . . . . His playing is impeccable. His compositions are original yet are comforatbly at home in the bluegrass genre. He recives ample support from Eric Uglum, Jason Mowery, Marshall Andrews, Janet Beazley, Chad Manning, Ken Orrick, and Crazy Pat Conway . . . . Ivan Rosenberg is someone to keep an eye on and an ear tuned to in this field. He is both an excellent instrumentalist and a very good composer. He has the good sense to surround himself with other good musicians whom he respects and gives them their turn in the spotlight. This is a fine recording and is a valuable addition to your bluegrass library, especially for resonator guitar fans. But don't pass over it just because you don't think you fall into one of these categories. This is just plain good music. Recommended.

  • Some Really Great Dobro, Bluegrass, Progressive Acoustic Music
    author: Robert Lee Johnson - The Guitar Man

    Ivan Rosenberg Dobro playing is absolutely outstanding. You will look long and hard to find a CD with Bluegrass and Progressive Acoustic Music that is as good as this CD. I have both of Ivan Rosenberg’s CDs. Both are very good. However, “Back To The Pastures” is a masterpiece of Bluegrass and Progressive Acoustic Music. Ivan Rosenberg’s Fresh Approach to both Bluegrass and Acoustic Music is outstanding and in some ways makes his music better than the same type of music recorded by the Recording Business Establishment. If Ivan Rosenberg’s CD “Back To The Pastures” was distributed and Promoted by “Sugar Hill” Records it would be one of the best selling CDs. Robert Lee Johnson The Guitar Man

  • Some really great acoustic musicians. Dobro is great.
    author: Robert Lee JohnsonThe Guitar man

    You will love this CD. I have it and have played it so much. Ivan Rosenbert and the other musicians are very soulful in their renditions of some great songs. Ivan is a really good Dobro Players and song writer. All the musicians on the recording are excellent.

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