BIOGRAPHY
 Tyler Grant is a versatile guitarist with a wide range of influences and musical expertise. He is currently a member of the Drew Emmitt Band (singer/mandolinist of Leftover Salmon - drewemmitt.com) and Casey and Chris and the Two Stringers (an incredible bluegrass band - twostringers.com).
Tyler is a gifted singer and songwriter as well, and just released his first solo album, In The Light, in June 2006 on FGM Records, featuring some of his amazing friends from Nashville: Mike Bub, Casey Driessen, Andy Hall, Pat Enright, Chris Henry, Amanda Kowalski, Chris Pandolfi, Missy Raines, Steven Sandifer, and Scott Vestal. The album is a mix of original and traditional songs and instrumentals in the bluegrass and folk tradition. Plenty of hot pickin'.
A graduate of the California Institute of the Arts (BFA in Music Performance), Tyler Grant's name has been popping up everywhere in the acoustic music scene over the past few years. In 2003 he joined Adrienne Young's band and toured with her for a year and a half (adrienneyoung.com). He also recorded with her on her acclaimed CDs Plow the End of the Row and The Art of Virtue. In 2004 he hooked up with Casey and Chris Henry and the Two-Stringers. He still performs with that group and is on their newly released CD Get Along Girl. In the fall of 2004 he also toured China for ten days with Casey Driessen (fiddle), Amanda Kowalski (bass), and Abigail Washburn (old-time banjo) as part of a musical cultural exchange (abigailwashburn.com). During the first half of 2005 he also toured with Canadian fiddler April Verch (aprilverch.com).
Most recently (November 2005) Tyler joined the Drew Emmitt Band and is currently on tour with that group. He will be performing with that band this year at Telluride, High Sierra, Four Corners Folk Festival, Floyd Fest, Harvest Fest, and others. Tyler is also looking forward to playing with the Emmitt/Nershi Band, featuring Billy Nershi from the String Cheese Incident (myspace.com/emmittnershiband). Although he is more of a band player than a contest performer, Tyler won the Rockygrass guitar contest in 2003, won the Henderson festival contest in 2005, and placed second at the National Flatpicking Championship in Winfield, Kansas, in 2005.
DISCOGRAPHY
CDs
In The Light
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Tyler has just released his own solo CD "In the Light" on FGM Records.
Nine of the thirteen tracks on Tyler's CD are original (seven vocal and two instrumental). The other four tracks consist of three traditional instrumental tunes and one traditional vocal song. Tyler started laying down tracks for this project in September of 2005. During the first session the group that he assembled to record with him cut five tracks. This group included Amanda Kowalski on bass, Casey Driessen on fiddle, Andy Hall on Dobro, Scott Vestal on banjo and Chris Henry on mandolin. Pat Enright added tenor vocals. |
Track List:
1. Cold Harbor
2. Rider on an Endless Line
3. The Kid
4. Methodist Preacher
5. Bad Reputation
6. Mamma Llama
7. Danville Girl
8. Obsession
9. Rain
10. Indigo Blue
11. Holiday on Mission Street
12. If Only for a Day
13. If I Had the Money I Would Ride That Train
14. The Reason
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Appearances on other FGM Releases:
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LINKS
Check out Tyler's website at: http://www.tylergrant.com
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