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Welcome to California Country, where country and bluegrass meet folk and rock, from the beaches to the golden hills, and out on the open highway from the redwoods to the high sierra!

JohnMcG.com chronicles the musical endeavors of John McGaraghan—San Francisco Bay Area based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. John's music is born and bred in the backroads and byways of the California countryside, and it oozes with California's scenic beauty, rich history, open roads, and diverse population. It would be easy to simply call it country, folk, pop, rock, or bluegrass and move on, but none of those labels would capture the real essence of the music. Pure and simple, it's California Country!

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John McGaraghan is a San Francisco singer and songwriter born and raised in California. He plays Country, Folk, Bluegrass and Rock music, writing his own songs as well as performing the work of other legends such as Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, Merle Haggard, Gram Parsons, Gillian Welch, Steve Earle, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, John Hiatt, Little Feat (Lowell George), Van Morrison, and many others. His instrumental talents include acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lap steel, dobro, mandolin, piano, saxophone, and more. He has played with a wide variety of bands, both as a front man (Unbroken Chain, Oversoul, King Harvest), and a side man (Redwood Project, Hot Buttered Rum, Pure Noodle), and along the way has shared the stage with such names as Fishbone, Elvin Bishop, Train, Merl Saunders, Lucinda Williams, eastmountainsouth, 311, The Untouchables, Zero, The Greyboy Allstars, Stroke 9, Ekhoositk Hookah, Pete and Alejandro Escovedo, Jambay, Calobo, Bill Magee, The B-Side Players, Clyde's Ride, and Pure Noodle.