![]() ![]() “At 18 or 19 I was pretty blindsided by a guitar player named Michael Hedges. With twenty some odd years of performing and a background in classical guitar, Colin O’Brien is the real “overnight sensation.” So, where did this guy come from? Where’s he headed? Colin has spent most of his life as a full time musician, playing in various bands around his home state in Michigan and around the country. Nashville, mind you,where Colin has found new life as a musician, picking banjo and playing fiddle, performing his own songs and also playing with a group of well known Nashville bluegrass pickers, former band mates of John Hartford, The Colin O’Brien Nashville Stringy Band. He resides in Nashville on the Cumberland River, just 200 yards downstream from Hartford’s Bend, where the late John Hartford used to live and call out to the riverboats as they chugged by. Colin O’Brien has been making his living performing his original music and favorite covers around the country for over 20 years. The key term mentioned above is “making a living”. Son:”Mom I want to be a banjo picker when I grow up”Ĭolin has figured out how to do both, plus the others. Colin O’Brien is a folk singing, guitar playing, fiddling banjo picker who is making a living doing what he loves, in Nashville.
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