Edgar Meyer

Edgar Meyer performing at the 2006 RockyGrass Music Festival
Photo: Jordan Klein · CC BY 2.0

About the artist

Edgar Meyer (born November 24, 1960) is a prominent contemporary bassist. His styles include bluegrass, newgrass, jazz, and classical. Meyer has worked as a session musician in Nashville, part of various chamber groups, a composer, and an arranger. Meyer grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He learned to play the double bass from his father, the late Edgar Meyer, Sr., who directed the string orchestra program for the local public school system. Meyer later went on to Indiana University to study with Stuart Sankey.

Top songs

  1. Sliding Down
  2. Attaboy
  3. Less Is Moi
  4. Big Country
  5. Here and Heaven
  6. Quarter Chicken Dark
  7. Helping Hand
  8. Where's My Bow?
  9. Short Trip Home
  10. Just As I Thought
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  1. No One But You
  2. Franz and the Eagle
  3. Hill Justice
  4. Why Only One?
  5. 13:8
  6. Goat Rodeo
  7. Please Don't Feed the Bear
  8. 1B
  9. First Things First
  10. Roundabout
  11. Tarnation
  12. Interlude 1
  13. By The River - Instrumental
  14. Early Morning
  15. Look What I Found
  16. El Cinco Real
  17. Sliding Down - Instrumental
  18. Ham and Cheese
  19. The Auld Beagle
  20. First Impressions - Instrumental
  21. The Low Road
  22. Big Top
  23. Interlude 2
  24. Old Tyme
  25. Interlude 3
  26. Woody Creek
  27. Duet For Cello and Bass
  28. Friday
  29. Appalachia Waltz
  30. Whatever
  31. Monkey Actually
  32. I'll Remember For You
  33. First Impressions
  34. Uncommon Ritual - Instrumental
  35. The Farmer And The Duck
  36. It's Dark In Here
  37. In Hindsight
  38. Interlude 4
  39. Catch and Release
  40. Concert Duo mvt. 1 - Instrumental
  41. If I Knew - Instrumental
  42. Second Time Around
  43. Indecision
  44. G-22
  45. I Wasn't Talking To You
  46. Just As Well
  47. BT
  48. Rabbit Cake
  49. Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude
  50. Slow Song For A Dog
  51. FRB
  52. Cloverfoot Reel
  53. Fence Post In The Front Yard
  54. Concert Duo, The Prequel - Instrumental
  55. Cassandra's Waltz
  56. This is the Pig
  57. Big Bug Shuffle
  58. Degree of Separation
  59. Butterfly's Day Out
  60. Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: I. Prélude
  61. Contramonkey - Instrumental
  62. The Green Groves of Erin / The Flowers of Red Hill - Instrumental
  63. Roundabout (Edit)
  64. Movement III (quarter note = 190) from Concerto in D for Double Bass and Orchestra
  65. Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: III. Courante
  66. Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: II. Allemande
  67. Mama - Instrumental
  68. Mama
  69. Violin Concerto: I. Romanza
  70. 3rd Movement from Amalgamations for Solo Bass - Instrumental
  71. Druid Fluid - Instrumental
  72. Suite for Solo Cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: IV. Sarabande
  73. Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: III. Courante
  74. Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: II. Allemande
  75. Suite for solo cello No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: V. Menuett I & II
  76. Etienne et Petunia
  77. Suite for Solo Cello No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: VI. Gigue
  78. Chance Meeting - Instrumental
  79. In the Nick of Time
  80. Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: VI. Gigue
  81. Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: IV. Sarabande
  82. Etienne et Petunia - Instrumental
  83. College Hornpipe
  84. Chromium Picolinate - Instrumental
  85. Violin Concerto: II. Dramma musicale, eroico, lirico e gioioso
  86. Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: V. Menuett I & II
  87. Suite for solo cello No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: I. Prélude
  88. Pickles - Instrumental
  89. Pickles
  90. Druid Fluid

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