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2008
Wildwood
Lineup
Big Smith Aug. 9
Folk Fest
The Dillards Aug. 28
Joe Ely. Aug. 29
Batdorf and Rodney. Aug.
30
The Amazing Rhythm Aces
Sep. 12, 13
Brewer
and Shipley
Sep. 19,20
Pure Prairie League
Sep. 26, 27
Poco
Oct. 2, 3, 4
Michael Martin Murphey
Oct. 10, 11
FireFall
Oct. 17, 18
Leon
Russell
Oct. 24, 25
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Wildwood Springs Lodge
The Midwest's Premier Acoustic Venue.
Presents
Batdorf and Rodney
August 30, 2008
Tickets Aug. 30
"Me and My Guitar"
"Summer of Love"
"One Day"
" Don't You Hear Me Callin' "
By 1970, both John and Mark had tired of the Los Angeles scene and were both interested in the new music revolution of the 70s....acoustic music! They re-connected in Las Vegas and started playing acoustic guitars together. They were both heavily in the new sound of Crosby, Stills, and Nash, Neil Young, James Taylor, and Simon & Garfunkel. After three months, they had conquered Las Vegas and had enough originals to head back to Los Angeles. By a magic coincidence, Ahmet Ertegun was in Los Angeles and offered to audition them. He immediately signed them to Atlantic Records and produced them himself in legendary Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
The group eventually recorded three albums on Atlantic, Asylum (one of their first releases), and Arista Records. The three A's! They toured for five years with groups like Bread, The Youngbloods, Loggins and Messina, Three Dog Night, Dan Fogelberg, Chicago, Seals and Crofts, and every group from that era. |
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They had several regional hits but never broke nationally before they had enough of the business. Batdorf and Rodney were actually before groups like America, Seals and Crofts, and Dan Fogelberg. They were always considered a major influence of that sound.
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