Pittsburgh Artist Registry

Gary Crouth was born in a sleepy city in upstate New York at a time when the President was an army general and people talked seriously about bomb shelters and communists. His musical brain awoke around the 5th grade and he chose to play guitar, mainly because it looked nothing like an accordion, studying with a guitar master who recklessly drove a red Karmann Ghia and had once played with the Jackie Gleason Orchestra. A lackluster academic career and social life at a prestigious engineering university left him with a chemical engineering degree and heart-felt appreciation for The Blues. His musical career began when nepotism got him a job singing and playing banjo on a replica packet boat pulled by Belgian horses on the Erie Canal. Since then, he's performed in numerous other venues, including a few conventional ones. His style is deeply rooted in the musical dirt of his past: traditional and contemporary acoustic music, early country, and sixties pop songs.