Scooter
Muse & Jil Chambless
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BIO
Scooter
Muse
A long
time guitar player, 1968 marked a
big change in the music Scooter Muse had digested during the folk
years. Bonnie
and Clyde had a banjo on the soundtrack – Earl Scruggs’ Foggy Mt.
Breakdown –
and from that point on he never looked back.
Finally,
after the summer of 1972, with
the sound of Dueling Banjos on any folkie’s mind, Scooter purchased his
first
banjo, took a few lessons - and almost 40 years later has been
fortunate to
win
countless banjo competitions throughout the southeast including the
Tennessee
Valley Championships 8 times.
He has
played banjo with bluegrass
legends, Clair Lynch, Vassar Clements and a host of others as well as
handling first call banjo duties for the world famous Muscle Shoals,
Alabama recording industry.
While
at the Briarfield Bluegrass
Festival in Alabama in the early 80’s, another life-changer for him was
experiencing
the progressive Celtic sounds of a great band, Touchstone.
That show launched him into the world of
Celtic music on banjo, and ultimately, moving into the world of open
tunings on
the guitar.
In the
90’s he founded the Full Moon
Ensemble, who achieved national recognition, toured the US and Canada
as well
as Scotland and recorded 5 critically acclaimed CDs. After a successful
8 year run, the FME
went
their separate ways and Scooter was drafted as the guitar player for
the
longest running Celtic band in the south, Henri’s Notions, based in
Tuscaloosa,
AL for over 30 years. The Notions
consistently play festivals, concerts and other venues throughout the
southeast
and have appeared with such great artists as Bob Dylan, Paddy Obrien,
Patrick
Street, Brian McNeill and countless others.
In
2005, Scooter recorded a solo guitar
CD, Saddell Abbey, with all original material as well as original music
set to
the poetry of Robert Burns.
Scooter
is available in the following
ensembles –
With
Henri's Notions (www.henrisnotions.com);
With
the Ed Miller Trio which includes Ed Miller and Jil Chambless (www.songsofscotland.com)
and as
a duo
with Jil Chambless (www.jilchambless.com).
Jil and
Scooter recently released their new CD, "The Laverock Sang"
featuring 12 tracks of Scottish and Irish songs. Click HERE
for more
info.
As scheduling permits,
he and Jil are also available as a trio with fiddle great John Taylor.
Additionally,
he is available as a banjo player for other bands as well
as
furnishing a bluegrass band for any occasion.
Scooter
is a Master Folk
Artist with the
Alabama State Council on the Arts and also teaches private lessons for
the five
string banjo.
Scooter's solo guitar CD, Saddell
Abbey,
is available through CD Baby by clicking the link below, or by emailing
him .
Reviews
"...a haunting and
beautiful piece of music. The peace of the Abbey is complimented
perfectly by your composition. Well done! Just wonderful!"
The Saddell Abbey Trust
of Scotland
"Saddell Abbey is a great
piece of work...much good music"
Brian McNeill, internationally acclaimed Scottish singer/songwriter and
performer
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