Season 1, Episode 2: Ronnie Crutcher; Crutchero

Released Sunday, 28th June 2020

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Season 1, Episode 2: Ronnie Crutcher; Crutchero

Sunday, 28th June 2020

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Season 1, Episode 2 of Music City Scene. In this episode, our guest, Ronnie Crutcher has been a professional musician for most of his life and has been a professional musician on the Music City Scene since 1995. Ronnie has had the opportunity to play with many awesome musicians, including a several year stint with Brian Setzer. For the about the past 15 years, he has been in the Nashville Rockabilly band Hillbilly Casino. When Nashville is OPEN (as we are still partially open due to Covid), you can find Ronnie and Hillbilly Casino playing on Friday nights from 10-close at Layla’s Bluegrass Inn on Honky Tonk Row on Broadway and on Saturday nights in the Gulch area of Nashville playing at Sambuca. For more info on Ronnie and Hillbilly Casino go to:

Ronnie Crutcher:

https://www.facebook.com/ronnie.crutcher.1

Hillbilly Casino:

Ronnie is a talented musician. He plays the guitar, banjo, harmonica, mandolin, and upright bass. If you have not checked out his music, reach out to Ronnie through his Facebook page and get a copy of the Crutchero CD. Check him out on Facebook as he and his clones, the Los Crutcherosos perform your favorites, like this classic from the movie, O’Father Where Art Thou, and the song, A Man of Constant Sorrow. Since the Covid quarantine of social distancing and musicians unable to play in front of live audiences, you can see Ronnie perform on FaceBook live. Here’s a past recording from May 30th. Keep an eye on Ronnie’s FaceBook posts for the next live event! If you live in the Nashville area and are looking for a great music teacher for guitar, banjo, harmonica, mandolin, or upright bass – REACH OUT TO RONNIE through FACEBOOK MESSENGER.

Enjoy this interview with Ronnie, that brings you stories of his life as a professional musician which has brought him a lot of unique experiences in many corners of the world.

Songs by Ronnie Crutcher from this episode:

0-1:00, the Intro/Opening to Music City Scene, “It’s a Scorcher Out There” from the Crutchero Album

6:23 “Two for Flinchin” from the Crutchero Album

30:56 “It’s a Scorcher Out There” from the Crutchero Album

1:00:28 “It’s a Scorcher Out There” from the Crutchero Album

1:17:40 You hear a live version of the once coined “Dia De Los Muertos” or for those non-spanish speakers, “The Day of the Dead” that Ronnie finally landed on naming this production “Crutchero” from the Crutchero Album.

1:30:30 Ronnie plays us out with a live instrumental “Sleep Walk” originally written, recorded and released in 1959 by brothers Santo and Johnny Farina… a song that has been covered by some fo the greatest musicians in the world.

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