Lyndsay Bedogni

Musician
Best known for Bass

Lyndsay Bedogni played bass and sang harmony in New Zealand’s Hamilton County Bluegrass Band in the late 1960s, and he was on bass when the band recorded Two Shades of Bluegrass with the American singer Bill Clifton in 1970.

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The band was founded in Hamilton by Alan Rhodes and Paul Trenwith and began performing as the Muleskinners in 1966. Bedogni took over on bass when Sandy McMillin finished his studies and returned to Canada, in time for the band’s one RCA Victor single, “Barefoot Nellie” backed with “I’ll Never Hold You in My Arms Again.” At the beginning of 1969, with Bedogni newly graduated and the others qualified in their own trades, the band turned professional.

The Kiwi label put the band together with Clifton, then visiting New Zealand, for the first of its three albums of 1970. Two Shades of Bluegrass was recorded at Mascot Studio in Auckland on 31 March 1970, with Clifton and Rhodes on guitars, Trenwith on banjo, Dave Calder on mandolin, Colleen Bain on fiddle and Bedogni on bass. Later that year, during the second of two Joe Brown Country & Western Show tours, he left to go overseas, and Miles Reay replaced him when the tour reached Christchurch.

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