Bernard Leadon (born July 19, 1947, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American musician and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the American rock band Eagles. He has also played in other bands, including the Flying Burrito Brothers and Dillard & Clark. He is a multi-instrumentalist (guitar, banjo, mandolin, steel guitar, dobro) coming from a bluegrass background. He introduced elements of this music to a mainstream audience during his t...
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Bernard Leadon (born July 19, 1947, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American musician and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the American rock band Eagles. He has also played in other bands, including the Flying Burrito Brothers and Dillard & Clark. He is a multi-instrumentalist (guitar, banjo, mandolin, steel guitar, dobro) coming from a bluegrass background. He introduced elements of this music to a mainstream audience during his tenure with the Eagles. His music career since leaving the Eagles has been decidedly low-key, resulting in merely two solo albums with a gap of twenty-seven years in between. Leadon is, however, a noted session musician who has appeared as a guest on many other artists' records.
Leadon's family was constantly on the move in his early life, and he found himself, still in high school, in San Diego, California. His interest in the banjo and in folk music gravitated him to a place called the Blue Guitar, run by folk and bluegrass music enthusiasts...
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