Jakob Dylan will be promoting his new album “Women And Country” on The Late Show with David Letterman tonight – April 21st.
Which of course means as part of Jakob’s band a certain Mr Jon Rauhouse will be plying his steel guitar trade on the Letterman Show tonight.
So make sure you tune in and also check other talk show listings as other appearances are coming up.
As I posted about in the previous tour that wasn’t post Jon is currently sitting in with Jakob Dylan, playing steel guitar and they’ll be out on tour in the US & Canada in April and May.
The tour dates are up in the “On Tour” section and as you can see a certain couple of ladies are also part of the tour, namely Ms. Neko Case & Ms. Kelly Hogan, which with Jon, Paul Rigby, Tom V. Ray & Barry Mirochnick pretty much makes up the whole of Neko’s touring band.
Sounds like he’s still having a blast…
the rehearsals and promo are going good and it is great fun Jon Rauhouse
There’s a couple new videos and pictures added to the site of Jon in action with The Boxmasters on the just ended tour.
And yes in answer to the question posed in the post announcing Jon’s place on the tour he did have to get a fancy whistle but not only that he had to get a fancy barnet do as well.
Now I just have to figure out who he reminds me of, there’s a touch of the fried chicken Colonel, or maybe it’s Custer or is it a dead president. Let us know what you think in the comment section below.
Check out the On Tour section for them, one video you can’t see Jon but certainly can hear him.
Jon has managed to wangle a gig playing steel guitar with Billy Bob Thornton’s band The Boxmasters.
The band will be supporting Willie Nelson during the end of November and the begining of December. See the “On Tour” section for more details.
In Jon’s own words…
What can I say? Jon Rauhouse
Will have to find out if Jon has to get dolled up in the fancy suit like those Mr Thornton and the rest of The Boxmasters wear.
Tommy Connell in the Wavelab studio during recording of Steel Guitar Air Show
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Pictures of Tommy Connell and some of the gear used to record Steel Guitar Air Show, taken in the Wavelab studio.
Jon’s latest, a square necked slide acoustic made by Haymaker (Don Windham – see “Friends” section for link)
Mid 70s MSA Classic Single Neck 10 string, 3 pedals, 4 knee levers. E9 tuning, click images below for bigger pic.
Late 60s Gibson Falcon Amplifier 12″ speaker, click images below for bigger pic.
Fender FB-59 all Walnut and gold hardware
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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.
In his own words Jon has “Finally made a feature” in Guitar Player magazine.
So check it out in the Riffs section.
There’s a couple of new pics up on the site.
Firstly Jon at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle with Norm Hamlet, Merle Haggard’s steel player, “he’s one of the best” says Jon.
And then there’s a shot of Jon at this years SxSW gig with a link to the full set of pics of Jon’s band that day.
A follow up video from the Route 66 jam again recorded at the Fender booth at the International Steel Guitar Convention in St. Louis in 2005, this time Bobby Koeffer, Cindy Cashdollar and Jon swing through “Choo Choo Ch’ Boogie”
