Herb Pedersen


Herbert Joseph Pedersen is an American musician, guitarist, banjo player, and singer-songwriter who has played a variety of musical styles over the past fifty years including country, bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, folk, folk rock, country rock, and has worked with numerous musicians in many different bands.

Biography

Pedersen often performs with Chris Hillman, and both were once members of the Desert Rose Band. Pedersen also fronted his own band called the Laurel Canyon Ramblers which included bluegrass bassman Bill Bryson, writer and performer of the Crossroads Cafe song penned while a member of the Bluegrass Cardinals. Other musicians and groups with whom Pedersen has worked include John Fogerty; Mudcrutch; Pine Valley Boys; Michael Martin Murphey; Earl Scruggs; The Dillards, Smokey Grass Boys; The New Kentucky Colonels; Old & In the Way; David Grisman; Peter Rowan; Vassar Clements; Gram Parsons; Emmylou Harris; Skip Battin, Tony Rice; Dan Fogelberg; Stephen Stills; Linda Ronstadt; Kris Kristofferson; John Prine; Jackson Browne; John Denver; John Jorgenson; Leland Sklar; David Bromberg, The Doobie Brothers, Vince Gill; John Denver; and Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen; and Vern and Ray.

Discography

as Leader

as Band member

Collaborations

Linda Ronstadt - Linda Ronstadt Don't Cry Now - Linda Ronstadt Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons Fall into Spring - Rita Coolidge Heart Like a Wheel - Linda Ronstadt Pieces of the Sky - Emmylou Harris Elite Hotel - Emmylou Harris Prisoner in Disguise - Linda Ronstadt Dane Donohue - Dane Donohue Mudcrutch 2 - Mudcrutch with Tom Petty