Ronnie Bowman
| Ronnie Bowman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 9, 1961 Mount Airy, North Carolina |
| Genres | Bluegrass music |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Guitar, bass, vocals |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Labels | Rebel, Sugar Hill, Entertainment One Music |
| Associated acts | Lonesome River Band |
| Website | ronniebowman |
Ronnie Bowman is an award-winning American singer and composer of bluegrass music. Besides his solo albums, he is known for his work with the Lonesome River Band.
A native of Mount Airy, North Carolina, Bowman sang gospel music from age three until his late-teens. He sang in his family band with his four sisters, playing churches in North Carolina and Virginia.
Bowman joined bluegrass band The Lost and Found in 1988 and performed with them for two years.
From 1990 until 2001, Bowman then was vocalist and bass player in the Lonesome River Band, with bandmates Sammy Shelor, Dan Tyminski, and Tim Austin. Their 1991 album Carrying the Tradition was named the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) 1991 Album of the Year.
Cold Virginia Night, released in 1994, featued appearances by Alison Krauss, Del McCoury, and Tony Rice.
Bowman released Starting Over in 2003, with Don Cook producing several songs. Bowman was also assisted byTyminski, Jerry Douglas, and Barry Bales (all from Union Station) and Ronnie Stewart and Steve Gulley.
Bowman 2006's It’s Gettin’ Better All The Time in Nashville with members of his group The Committee: Wyatt Rice (guitar), Andy Hall (resonator guitar), Jeremy Garrett (fiddle, vocals), and Garnet Imes Bowman (vocalist and Ronnie's wife). Special guests included Del McCoury, Rob McCoury, Ronnie McCoury, Dan Tyminski, Don Reno, and John Jarvis.
For Chris Stapleton's Traveller album, Bowman wrote "Nobody to Blame" with Stapleton and Barry Bales, and "Outlaw State of Mind" with Stapleton and Jerry Salley.
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