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Contact Jerry Grannell PO Box 1701
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Jerry Grannell
The multi-talented Jerry "Stickboy" Grannell is a real live Colorado native, having been spawned in Evergreen. He lived most of his life there. Jerry has been around music as long as he can remember and started playing in the first grade. He once sold vegetables to save enough money to buy a brand new Silvertone guitar from Wards. His uncle had a folk singing group back in the halcyon days of coffeehouses and Beatniks. Jerry was performing before the public at his uncle's coffeehouse, the Gruffy Bird in Central City, long before his voice became the rich baritone we hear today. Or as Jerry describes his voice, "Not squeaky...."
Jerry plays guitar and fiddle, blues fiddle. And he's known to be proficient on a cello, viola, and piano as well, not to mention his unique ability to play a "McNally Strum Stick," which he describes as a deformed balalaika with three strings played in the key of G. This kind of versatility is rare indeed.
Jerry's newest band is, the Bucktones. They play "old rock, surf tunes, country, R&B, country rock and all kinds of fun stuff." This amazing musician is the bass player for this band and says, "I'm having a lot of fun and learning a lot."
Prior to this, Jerry was a founding member in Quickdraw, a bluegrass band. Jerry tells of how he fell in love with bluegrass. "I was drawn to the Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Festival. I went to Winfield in 1974 and have been to every one since....Back then we used to call it 'hillbilly' music."
Jerry and Mike Jagel teamed in 1974 and headed the Bear Mountain Ramblers. Around 1996, they teamed up with Kent Taylor and Randy Jones to form Quickdraw, "new acoustic / homegrown alternative bluegrass" band that won the West Central US Semi-Final Champion in the Pizza Hut International Showdown in 1997, and they finished third in the finals in Waterbury, Connecticut.
some information extracted from the Quickdraw profile, written by Bill Donaldson in Pow'r Pickin', September, 2001. Some text was modified here at Jerry's request.
