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The official site for Jon Rauhouse the finest steel & Hawaiian guitar player, with Neko Case, Billy Bob Thronton's Boxmasters, Jakob Dylan and many more.
- Why Rauhouse Chose Steel Guitar
- 'I Had to Have My Wife Help Me Out of Bed'
- 'I'm Gonna Be Able to Get Through This Thing'
- 'I Couldn't Feel More supported'
- How Rauhouse Stays Positive
When Rauhouse started playing steel guitar, in the late '70s, it wasn't popular at all. "They were trying to excise it out of all music," he says with a laugh. "So it was kind of a weird thing for me to pick up at that time. Like, 'Yeah, I'll do that. Everybody seems to not want to hear it. I'll do it.'" At the time, he was already playing banjo, w...
It was at a session that he realized something wasn't right. At first, he thought he'd thrown his back out carrying his pedal steel guitar up the stairs to a second-floor studio for a recording date in March. "But it got to the point where I couldn't get up," he says. "I had to have my wife help me out of bed, and I was walking with a cane just to ...
That radiation treatment proved to be a major turning point for Rauhouse. "For a while there, I was like, '(Expletive) it, I'm dying,'" he says. "I was looking at living with that kind of pain for the rest of my existence. And all of this happening during a pandemic made it all even more end of the world-type (expletive) for me. It was like, 'Oh gr...
His friends in the music community have been great, checking in every day just to see how he's doing and sending food. "I couldn't feel more supported," Rauhouse says. "It's really kind of beautiful." Case made it easy for Rauhouse to sit out the tour he had agreed to do this summer. "She was like, 'Look, if you want to come, you can come. If you d...
He's not planning too far out, though. "It could all go south tomorrow," he says. "So I've been trying to just ... you know, (expletive) stupid statements like 'live in the moment.' But I really am." The whole experience has made him want to focus on the positive. "That's kind of hard nowadays," he says. "But I am trying really hard. Everybody want...
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Feb 8, 2024 · Neko Case sideman Jon Rauhouse had to give up touring because of cancer, but he's still making music with his friends, from Blaine Long to Neko Case.
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When fully recovered, Jon was uncontrollably lured to the rusty pedal steel guitar that laid for years in the hold of a World War II cargo plane that had crashed on the wrong side of the island many decades before. His playing was flawless; technically proficient, yet totally swashbuckling and swoony.
Sep 11, 2013 · Jon Rauhouse is a master of all things stringed – from the pedal-steel guitar to the banjo to everything in between. Besides being a card-carrying member of Neko Case’s band, Rauhouse has offered his extensive talents to tours/recordings with Calexico, Billy Bob Thornton, Jakob Dylan and so many more. What’s more, we’re proud to call ...
Feb 6, 2013 · Red Chair Recordings Music: Jon Rauhouse Bands & Collaborations: Neko Case, Calexico, The Jon Rauhouse Orchestra Song: Desert Luau Tempe, AZ Jan. 2013.
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May 1, 2024 · Jon Rauhouse is the steel-guitar hero of the alt-country community based at Chicago's Bloodshot Records. He started out as a member of country-rock band the Grievous Angels in the 1990s, but his steel-guitar prowess quickly made him a first-call session player.
