Ross James has played with Billy Strings, was Phil Lesh's tour manager on Fare Thee Well and books music for Ophelia's Electric Soapbox.
A softly gleaming 1909 Steinway grand piano is nestled comfortably in the back of Denver bookerat-home studio. Surrounded by production equipment and other music paraphernalia, the piano looks like any other instrument, but to James, it's a physical reminder of the full circle of his storied music career.
And a musician's life is anything but easy — something James discovered when he was nine years old and living in Michigan."I wanted to play trumpet in the sixth grade, and after two weeks of it, the band teacher told me that the trumpet wasn't for me and maybe music wasn't my thing," James recalls."And I was completely devastated, crushed, because I always loved music.
By seventeen, James was hustling, loading his plate with work as a freelance sound engineer in production and performing professionally with local bands. He took on every opportunity, from rock-and-roll concerts to political rallies, growing his production résumé with steadfast determination."It's such a tough thing to break through as a musician," he says.
Constantly hungry for more gigs, James kept an eye on local Craigslist pages. In 2010, after his move to the San Francisco Bay area, James stumbled on an ad he felt was created especially for him:"It was for an 18- to 24-year-old guitar player, and it listed two influences: Larry Campbell and Dave Rawlings, who were two players that I really like that a lot of people maybe don't know," he remembers.
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