Herb Pedersen

Biography

Herbert Joseph Pedersen (born April 27, 1944) is an American musician, guitarist, banjo player, and singer-songwriter who has played a variety of musical styles over the past fifty years including country, bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, folk, folk rock, country rock, and has worked with numerous musicians in many different bands.

Biography

Pedersen often performs with Chris Hillman, and both were once members of the Desert Rose Band. Pedersen also fronted his own band called the Laurel Canyon Ramblers which included bluegrass bassman Bill Bryson, writer and performer of the Crossroads Cafe song penned while a member of the Bluegrass Cardinals. Other musicians and groups with whom Pedersen has worked include John Fogerty; Mudcrutch; Pine Valley Boys; Michael Martin Murphey; Earl Scruggs; The Dillards, Smokey Grass Boys; The New Kentucky Colonels; Old & In the Way; David Grisman; Peter Rowan; Vassar Clements; Gram Parsons; Emmylou Harris; Skip Battin, Tony Rice; Dan Fogelberg; Stephen Stills; Linda Ronstadt; Kris Kristofferson; John Prine; Jackson Browne; Clarence White; John Denver; John Jorgenson; Leland Sklar; David Bromberg, The Doobie Brothers, Vince Gill; John Denver; and Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen; and Vern and Ray.

as Leader

Southwest (1976) Epic PE 34225
Sandman (1977) Epic PE 34933
Lonesome Feeling (1984) Sugar Hill Records SH-3738

as Band member

San Francisco 1968, Vern & Ray With Herb Pedersen (2006) Arhoolie Records CD 524
Wheatstraw Suite, The Dillards (1968), Elektra EKS-74035
Copperfields, The Dillards (1970), Elektra EKL-74054
Live in Holland 1973, the New Kentucky Colonels (2013) Roland White Music – RW0001
Here Today, David Grisman, Herb Pedersen, Vince Gill, Jim Buchanan, Emory Gordy Jr. (1982) Rounder Records – 0169
The Desert Rose Band, The Desert Rose Band, with Chris Hillman & John Jorgenson (1987) MCA Records MCA-5991
Running, The Desert Rose Band, with Chris Hillman & John Jorgenson (1988) MCA Records MCA-42169
Pages Of Life, The Desert Rose Band, with Chris Hillman & John Jorgenson (1990) MCA Records MCA-42332
True Love, The Desert Rose Band, with Chris Hillman & John Jorgenson (1991) MCA Records MCAD-10407
Bluegrass Reunion, with Red Allen, David Grisman...(1992) Acoustic Disc ACD-4
Rambler's Blues, Laurel Canyon Ramblers (1995) Sugar Hill Records SHCD-3834
Rambler's Blues 2, Laurel Canyon Ramblers (1996) Sugar Hill Records SHCD-3852
Bakersfield Bound, With Chris Hillman (1996) Sugar Hill Records – SHCD-3850
Out of the Woodwork, with Tony Rice, Larry Rice, Chris Hillman (1997) Rounder Records CD0390
Back On The Street Again, Laurel Canyon Ramblers (1998) Sugar Hill Records SHCD-3881
Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen, With Tony Rice, Larry Rice, Chris Hillman (1999) Rounder Records 11661-0450-2
Running Wild, Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen, (2001) Rounder Records 11661-0483-2
Way Out West, with Chris Hillman (2002) Back Porch Records – 72438-11978-2-0
At Edwards Barn, with Chris Hillman (2010) Rounder Records 11661-0652-2

Collaborations

Linda Ronstadt (eponymous album) - Linda Ronstadt (1971)
Don't Cry Now - Linda Ronstadt (1973)
Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons (1974)
Fall into Spring - Rita Coolidge (1974)
Heart Like a Wheel - Linda Ronstadt (1974)
Pieces of the Sky - Emmylou Harris (1975)
Elite Hotel - Emmylou Harris (1975)
Prisoner in Disguise - Linda Ronstadt (1975)
Dane Donohue - Dane Donohue (1978)
Mudcrutch 2 - Mudcrutch with Tom Petty (2016)
Back To When - David Kraai (2026)