IVAN ROSENBERG: Ashes and Coals - Solo Dobro Music

Ivan Rosenberg

Ashes and Coals - Solo Dobro Music

© 2005 Ivan Rosenberg (634479121289)

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The only album of its kind--all solo, all original, all slow-tempo Lap-style Dobro (slide guitar) and Weisenborn instrumentals. Haunting & memorable melodies, beautiful tone, reflective moods. By world renowned Dobro composer.

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Dobro and banjo player Ivan Rosenberg has released 4 CDs of mostly-original instrumentals and an instructional DVD. Bluegrass Unlimited magazine wrote, "It is only a matter of time until Ivan Rosenberg becomes universally recognized as one of the more prolific masters of the resonator guitar," and Banjo Newsletter editor Donald Nitchie wrote that Ivan's latest CD Clawhammer and Dobro was one of the best instrumental recordings of the year.

Ivan currently plays select festivals and concerts with alt. bluegrass band The Breakmen and with the old time/world music quartet Mighty Squirrel from Washington State. Ivan has also performed and/or recorded with many top musicians including Billy Cardine and Mary Lucey of The Biscuit Burners, Chris Stuart & Backcountry, Chad Manning, Hit & Run, Jake Schepps, Julie Elkins & David Thompson, Ben Winship, and Mike Grigoni.

Ivan's workshop experience includes The Sore Fingers Week bluegrass camp in the UK (2004), the British Columbia Bluegrass Workshop (2003-2007), the California Bluegrass Association music camp in California (2004, 2005), and Camp He Ho Ha in Edmonton, Alberta. This year's workshops include The Puget Sound Guitar Workshop and the BCBW. Ivan currently gives dobro and clawhammer banjo lessons 3 or 4 days per month at The 5th String in Berkeley, CA.

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

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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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  • Complex, colorful arrangements, an affecting instrumental journey.
    author: The Missoulian

    Only a performer of the rarest talent can get away with releasing an album featuring just himself playing a single instrument. Former Missoulian Ivan Rosenberg’s mastery of the resophonic guitar, or Dobro, and his wellspring of melodies allow him to do more than just get away with it—he moves his instrument’s long tradition forward on Ashes and Coals, his third release.... Rosenberg takes listeners on a stripped-down and affecting instrumental journey. The result is rip-your-heart-out beautiful.... Despite Rosenberg’s platform, he doesn’t show off—rather, he takes the opportunity to express complex and colorful arrangements that never sound busy or melodramatic. Both respectful and innovative, Rosenberg’s explorations should prove crucial to the evolution of his instrument.

  • Nicely done original dobro instrumentals of the slow, moody variety.
    author: County Sales

    A nicely done album of 10 dobro instrumentals by this west coast musician who has had other solo projects out in the past. All of the tunes here are originals by Rosenberg, and most are of the slow and moody variety. A solid, professional recording.

  • Nicely done original dobro instrumentals of the slow, moody variety.
    author: County Sales

    A nicely done album of 10 dobro instrumentals by this west coast musician who has had other solo projects out in the past. All of the tunes here are originals by Rosenberg, and most are of the slow and moody variety. A solid, professional recording.

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