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He's
shared a cigarette with Jim Morrison, and
he's shown a room full of fourth graders that any song can be played in
bluegrass style. The fourth graders were more appreciative.
As a child, Greg began
harmonizing with his mother as she sang and played the ukulele and organ. He
picked up his first guitar at 13, and was performing with a local Chicago band
at 14. His life-long musical experience is varied, including choirs, barbershop
quartet, musical theatre, and bands representing every style from blues to rock.
Greg’s barbershop influence is evident in the harmony he marries to Bev’s
sometimes sultry, sometimes innocent, lead vocals.
Greg played in local bands in and around Chicago during the 1960s and 70s and was active in the Aspen music scene of the late 1970s playing country rock. After moving to California in 1979, Greg found himself cursed with the need to make a living. Ignoring his musical muse, he didn’t pick up a guitar for 15 years. In the mid-90s he began performing with various classic rock, blues and country bands in the San Francisco Bay Area, then teaming up with Bev in 1998.
The story behind sharing the cigarette with Jim Morrison? It was 1967. The Midwest Hydraulic Company consisted of four young kids who caught a break and got booked to open for the Doors on the mid-West leg of their tour. Ask Greg about it and he'll say "We were 17. We sucked."
And yes, he was a hit in Mr. Campbell's 4th grade classroom where he demonstrated to an uncharacteristically attentive room of 9 year olds that ANY song can be played in bluegrass style.
Newlon describes his performance experience this way "you're always looking for the zone, that place that, when you get to it, everyone is right there with you. So even if you're playing a solo show, music is never a solo performance. It’s a spiritual journey where the goal is always the zone, the ensemble. Some times the ensemble is the band. Sometimes its solo guitar and a single listener... and the listener completes the ensemble."
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Music Connection Magazine calls Any Doorway Will Do a "luminous collection of songs that shine with a soulful spirit."
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