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Washington, DC area banjo player Joe Zauner has joined Patent Pending. Zauner, who has been playing banjo since 1973, is like several of his new bandmates in Patent Pending, in that he cut his bluegrass teeth playing in Washington, DC-area clubs in the late 1970s, including the Red Fox Inn and the Birchmere. Over the [...]
The Gospel song Barabbas was written by Eldred Hill, the mandolin player with West Virginia-based group Patent Pending. He relates …… “My father had heard a sermon on the crucifixion delivered by his minister Steve Smallman. The theme was that Barabbas was 'our' representative, that like Barabbas, Christ died in our place. He used the [...]
More great photos from Frank Baker. Here are images he shot during Friday's shows at the Gettysburg Bluegrass festival last week.
Patent Pending has announced that Buster Sexton has joined the band on banjo, a change necessitated by the sudden passing of founding member Jim Steptoe on August 30. Buster has worked with a number of popular bluegrass groups in Virginia, including McPeak Brothers, Leon Morris and Associates, Chief Powhatan, Wayne Yates and Company, and a [...]
Thanks to Murphy Henry, who sent along the details about funeral arrangements for Jim Steptoe, former banjo player with Patent Pending, who passed away this past weekend. A visitation is scheduled from 5:00-8:00 p.m. this evening (9/2) at Brown's Funeral Home in Martinsburg, WV. A guest book is set up on Brown's web site if [...]
Jim Steptoe, longtime banjo player with Patent Pending, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly over the weekend. He was found at his home on Sunday, August 30. Jim was a founding member of the band, along with Eldred Hill, Rusty Williams, Leigh Taylor. The group started in 1979 and was a fixture in the Washington area [...]
