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A multi-instrumentalist and virtuoso keyboard player, Hudson provided innovative accompaniment. For example, the song "Up On Cripple Creek" features Hudson playing a Clavinet through a Wah-wah Pedal to create a swampy sound reminiscent of a Jaw Harp or the croak of a Frog This clavinet/wah pedal configuration was later adopted by many Funk musicians. A master of the Lowrey organ, Hudson's orchestral tone sense and style anticipated many of the sonic advances of the polyphonic Synthesizer . His other primary instruments are piano, electronic keyboards, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, and accordion. Garth Hudson is a much-in-demand session musician and has contributed to dozens of recordings by other musicians, recently including Leonard Cohen , Eric Andersen , the Dixie Hummingbirds , the Gipsy Kings , Norah Jones , Neko Case , Los Lobos and Wilco . In 1990 he, along with bandmates Levon Helm and Rick Danko, took part in Roger Waters' massive performance of '' The Wall '' at the Berlin Wall. Hudson released a solo album in 2001 entitled ''The Sea To The North''. In 2005, Garth and Maud Hudson released ''LIVE at the WOLF,'' a piano and vocal album recorded live at the Wolf Performance Hall in London, Ontario , Garth's hometown. In 2005 he worked on Teddy Thompson's album '' Separate Ways ''. |
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