Ronnie Earl

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For the district attorney of Travis County, Texas, see Ronnie Earle.Ronnie Earl (born Ronald Horvath, March 10, 1953, Queens, New York, United States) is an American blues guitarist and music instructor.

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While growing up, Earl collected blues, jazz, rock, and soul records. At C.W., he studied American History. Post College on Long Island for a year and a half, then migrated to Boston to pursue a Bachelor's Degree in Special Education and Education at Boston University, where he will graduate in 1975. He spent a brief period of time teaching handicapped children. He attended a Muddy Waters concert at the Boston Jazz Workshop in Boston during his college years. Earl took an active interest in the guitar after seeing Waters perform, which he first picked up in 1973. At The Speakeasy, a blues club in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his first job was as a rhythm guitarist. Earl went from Greyhound Bus to Chicago twice, where he was introduced to the Chicago blues by Koko Taylor.

He then moved to New Orleans and Austin, Texas, where he spent time with Kim Wilson, Jimmie Vaughan, and The Fabulous Thunderbirds. He formed the band Roomful of Blues as the lead guitarist in 1979.

He began performing solo in 1986, in addition to appearing with Roomful of Blues, and he released his first solo album on the Black Top Records label with a band focusing on blues instrumentals. He began collaborating with contemporaries Ron Levy, Jerry Portnoy, Earl King, Jimmy Rogers, and Jimmy Witherspoon after leaving Roomful of Blues.

Earl formed 'The Broadcasters' in 1984. The band was named after one of the first Fender guitars, which had been issued in 1950 and had been called The Broadcaster. Darrell Nulisch (vocalist), Jerry Portnoy (harmonica), Steve Gomes (bass), and Persi Pershingon (drums) were among the first group of Broadcasters to perform. Soul Searchin was their first album, followed by Peace of Mind in 1990. In 1994, their album Language of the Soul was released. Bruce Katz (keyboards), Perss Persy (drums), and "Rocket" Rod Carey (bass) were among the Broadcasters' line-up for that album. Marc Quinones (percussion) and Gregg Allman (keyboards) appeared on the forthcoming album The Colour of Love. At Somerville, Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters' opener for the Allman Brothers Band at Great Woods, as well as Warren Haynes (guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band) appearing with Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters. Katz joined the Gregg Allman Band later in life.

Earl was diagnosed with several medical disorders, cut back on his traveling, and re-evaluated his career aspirations in 2000. Earl gathered a new group of Broadcasters together in 2002 and began a fruitful and creative collaboration with Stony Plain Records of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Jim Mouradian (bass), Dave Limina (piano, Hammond B3), and Lorne Entress (drums) were among the new Broadcasters. Diane Blue (vocals) joined the band as the first female Broadcaster in 2014 and became the first female Broadcaster. Lorne Entress left August 2016 to work on other projects, and Jim Mouradian died suddenly after a show in January 2017. Dave Limina (piano, Hammond B3), Diane Blue (vocals), Forrest Padgett (drums), and Paul Kochanski (bass) are among the new Broadcasters (2018).

The Luckiest Man, Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters' 11th release from Stony Plain Records, was released in 2017. Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters' 30th anniversary as a band in October 2018.

Earl is a four-time (1997, 1999, 2014, 2018) Blues Music Award winner as Guitar Player of the Year. He was an Associate Professor of Guitar at Berklee College of Music for five years, and in 1995, he released Ronnie Earl: Blues Guitar with Soul, an instructional VHS tape for Arlen Roth's Hot Licks Video, which was later released in DVD format in 2005. Earl was also the blues instructor at the 'National Guitar Summer Workshop.'

At the third annual Independent Music Awards, Earl's "Hey Jose" was voted Best Blues/R&B Song in early 2004.

Earl often appears on both scheduled and impromptu sessions at the Bull Run Tavern in Shirley, Massachusetts, either on the main stage or in the tap room with visiting bands and performers. Every March, he appears at the Bull Run for the annual birthday show.

Mercy Me, Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters' album, was released in February 2022. It's their 26th studio album and Sony Plain Records' 14th.

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