Amanda and Scott Anderson
Amanda and Scott Anderson
Gainesville, FL
Folk / bluegrass / Americana
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After years of playing together at home, Amanda and her dad Scott Anderson began performing as a duo in 2008, as well as together in The Scott Anderson Band. Amanda handles most of the lead vocals in the duo, as well as supplying sweet fiddle lines. Swampgrass master Scott Anderson adds harmony and lead vocals as well as guitar and banjo. Their repertoire includes Americana and bluegrass songs from Nickel Creek, Andrea Zonn, Alison Krauss, The Dixie Chicks, and many others. Their dazzling fiddle and banjo duets are favorites at every show.
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Amanda and Scott Anderson,
"Another Day"
Following the critical success of his album "Rivers" and a three year stint as banjoist and vocalist with The Jim Hurst Band, Scott Anderson has teamed with his daughter Amanda on "Another Day," a tasty buffet of Americana and bluegrass tunes. In addition to Amanda on vocals and fiddle and Scott on vocals, guitar, and banjo, "Another Day" features spicy musical support from friends Michael Godwin, David McMillan, Mark Schatz, Tommy Slaughter, Cory Walker, Jarrod Walker, and Austin Wilder.
Amanda Anderson has thrived under the gentle watch of her father and Gainesville musician extraordinaire, Scott Anderson. Now the daughter and dad duo steps out in this thoughtful, timely collection of songs. Surrounded by slick musicians, their star is destined to rise over the great state of Florida and shine high over the Southeast. I’m proud to be their friend and fan.
-Claire Lynch
-Claire Lynch
"I love this recording! It's FABULOUS!!! Awesome job! Everything about it filled my heart with so much joy, but particularly Amanda's singing - what a sweet and gorgeous tone she has to her voice! And y'all really did my song justice!"
- Jessee Havey
- Jessee Havey
"This CD literally was 15 years in the making, The age Scott's daughter Amanda was at the time of the recording. It's a blessing for the Americana fan with some left over for the bluegrass folk. Smooth, saucy and wistful, but the pedal to the metal when needed. A must for any acoustic music fan.
Tom Henderson, "This Is Bluegrass" - WMNF-FM, Tampa, FL
"Another Day is excellent. How wonderful to be able to make such good music with your daughter!"
Jan Dale, Southern Style, PBS FM 106.7, Brighton North, Australia
"Another Day" is a first rate CD. Amanda is a very talented young lady. The project is very well done and it deserves to be exposed in this part of the world."
Charlie Hansen, Bluegrass Island CFCY FM Cornwall, PE, Canada
"Mighty nice job on Another Day! And Amanda is surely doing wonderfully on the fiddle and singing like she 'owns it'!"
Mark Sahlgren WMUK FM, Kalamazoo, MI
Scott Anderson, "Rivers"
"This is Bluegrass at it's finest. Solid driving Scruggs style banjo, smooth melodic lines and maybe some Bela jazz touches, Scott has covered the bases with traditional and contemporary sounding originals."
Dennis Jones WNCW-FM Spindale N.C.
"The back of the CD says "File under 'bluegrass'," and the cover photo shows Scott Anderson in a stereotypically rural Southern setting, picking his banjo beside a sluggish green river. But don't be fooled — it's really not quite that simple. Though Anderson is a very accomplished bluegrass banjo player and he demonstrates those chops on several tracks, he also spends a considerable amount of time exploring less traditional terrain. Accompanied by such eminent acoustic-music figures as fiddler Aubrey Haynie, singer and guitarist Jim Hurst, banjo player Scott Vestal, and bassist Missy Raines, he plays in a style that varies from straight-ahead (on the Earl Scruggs standard "Nashville Blues") to complex and jazzy (his own composition "Tyler and Amanda") and a hybrid style that alternates melodic with Scruggs-style picking ("Ruby Falls"). His singing is also a consistent delight; while he turns the vocal chores over to others on several tracks, his own vocals offer some of the album's best moments. Highly recommended to all adventurous bluegrass fans." Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
"Only a musical genius could have done it!"
Jane Royal, Midnight Flyer
"...banjo playing and vocal work is great...It's a winner!"
Mark Newton, The Mark Newton Band
"...superb selection of tunes, not the least of which are originals...killer arrangement of Nashville Blues...great job on Ichetucknee and Satilla, So Deep...I'll be playing them all."
Dave Higgs, WPLN-FM Brentwood, TN
"A very fine project - well done and loaded with originality."
Buck Buckner KGNU-FM Boulder, CO
"Scott Anderson is a great artist...banjo picker with a beautiful voice with a superb selection of tunes...Scott is a natural thing!...and the selection is not easy, all (of the) CD is so good!"
Andre LeClerc, Radio Tilt, Gievres, France
"I listen to a lot of albums, and I start to worry about the future of bluegrass and acoustic music. Then an album like Scott's comes to me. His playing stands out as does his singing. Though the album contains artists you hear on other albums it sounds very original because of Scott.
IT WILL AND HAS GOTTEN A LOT OF AIRPLAY."
"Big" Al Weekley, KRVN, Lexington, NE
"...Scott is a heck of a banjo picker."
Vic Canter KCLC-FM St. Peters, MO
"...an excellent collection of originals and generally unknown tunes...all enjoyable and affecting...
Nice work all around and a very pleasant listen."
Bluegrass Unlimited, January 2002
"Kick @#$* stuff!!"
David Berry
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