Herbert Joseph Pedersen (born April 27, 1944, in Berkeley, California) is an American musician, guitarist, banjo player, and singer-songwriter who has played a variety of musical styles over the past fifty years including country, bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, folk, folk rock, country rock, and has worked with numerous musicians in many different bands. Biography Pedersen often performs with Chris Hillman, and both were once members of the Desert Rose Band. Pedersen also fronted his own band called the Laurel Canyon Ramblers. Besides this, Pedersen has also worked with the following musicians and groups: John Fogerty, Mudcrutch, Pine Valley Boys, Michael Martin Murphey, Earl Scruggs, The Dillards, Smokey Grass Boys, The New Kentucky Colonels, Old & In the Way, David Grisman, Peter Rowan, Vassar Clements, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Skip Battin, Tony Rice, Dan Fogelberg, Stephen Stills, Linda Ronstadt, Kris Kristofferson, John Prine, Jackson Browne, John Denver, John Jorgenson, Leland Sklar, and Rice, Rice, Hillman and Pedersen, Vern and Ray, among others. Discography Southwest (1976) Epic Sandman (1977) Epic Lonesome Feeling (1984) Sugar Hill Collaborations Linda Ronstadt (album) - Linda Ronstadt (1971) Don't Cry Now - Linda Ronstadt (1973) Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons (1974) Fall Into Spring - Rita Coolidge (1974) Heart Like a Wheel - Linda Ronstadt (1974) Pieces of the Sky - Emmylou Harris (1975) Elite Hotel - Emmylou Harris (1975) Prisoner in Disguise - Linda Ronstadt (1975) Dane Donohue - Dane Donohue (1978) Mudcrutch (Tom Petty) (2016) References External links Official Herb Pedersen Website Guitarists from California American country guitarists American male guitarists American bluegrass musicians American country rock musicians American banjoists The Desert Rose Band members 1944 births Living people Musicians from Berkeley, California 20th-century American guitarists Country musicians from California 20th-century American male musicians Old & In the Way members The Dillards members Lyle Lovett and His Large Band members