The official site for Mr. Orchid Fingers, Jon Rauhouse one of the world’s finest multi-instrumentalists, being much called on to provide pedal steel, Hawaiian guitar and banjo for many artists.
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In the end the blues (music) are not the paper they’re written on, we agreed, it’s the horn and the slapped bass, it’s the singer and the voice, it’s the smoke in the room, it’s the people listening, bent foreward, eyes closed or shiny, it’s the time and place and the ache inside that matches the ache in the words and music. It isn’t something to take apart to much, to analyze. Hoagy Carmichael expresses exactly the way Jon feels about music
From the menu on the left you’ll find your way round the site:
Details about Jon, his appearances on albums (On Disc), tour dates, tour pictures and videos (On Tour), his Friends sites and the latest news.