User:Steve Arkin

Steve Arkin grew up in New York's Washington Square music scene, playing old-time and bluegrass in early bands with Jody Stecher, David Grisman, Maria Muldaur, and other stellar musicians. Over the summer of 1964 he played with Bill Monroe, who in James Rooney's book "Bossmen" said, "Arkin could play the best back-up banjo I have ever heard...Now there ain't no way around it. He could do it. He could put stuff in it and make it sell." My bands have included The Downstate Rebels, Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys, Northern Lights, Bllue & Lonesome, American Flyer, Five Miles Out of Tune, Troublesome Creek String Band, and Lightning in the East.