Joe Craven
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Biography
Joe Craven is an American freestyle folk, world and roots music multi-instrumentalist, singer and educator. He is the Director of RiverTunes Music Camp and a Co-Director of the Wintergrass Youth Academy. He plays a wide variety of string instruments, including fiddle, mandolin, ukulele, tres, cavaquinho, balalaika, as well as percussion, including a pickling jar, a credit card, or a jawbone. Craven is a well known sight at acoustic music festivals and, for many years, was violinist and percussionist for the David Grisman Quintet. Craven lists some of his influences being Jimi Hendrix, dumpster diving, Hermeto Pascoal, thrift stores, Frank Zappa, educator and aesthetician John Dewey, beachcombing, Carl Stalling, Eddie Palmieri, field recordings, Tiny Moore, Los Pleneros De Viente Uno, Darol Anger and The Horseflies. Craven has played with many notable musicians including Jerry Garcia, Stephane Grappelli, Alison Brown, Rob Ickes and David Lindley. He performs solo and in different sizes and versions of his own projects, most notably The Joe Craven Trio.
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Albums
Top Tracks
- Track Popularity
- Little Sadie
- Black Jack Davey
- Cluck 'Ol Hen
- Shady Grove
- Carol and the Kings: Carol of the Bells/We Three Kings featuring Joe Craven
- Sittin' on Top of the World
- Wayfaring Stranger/Lagrimas Negras
- Nobody's Fault But Mine
- Dig a Little Deeper in the Well
- Bright Sunny South
- Intro to Shady Grove
- The Leather Britches of Hackensack
