A former rock star, Ian Whitcomb, joins young pianist Adam Swanson and Grammy-award winning Nashville percussionist Danny Coots for an album of ragtime, great Tin Pan Alley tunes, and originals. "I Love a Piano" was recorded in one exciting day at a top-quality Nashville studio and features such classics as "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" along with many Whitcomb originals, and the debut of an Irving Berlin song, "Who Was King Solomon's Favorite Wife?" Much of the album was inspired by famous ragtime pianist, collector, and historian Johnny "Crazy Otto" Maddox. Includes Whitcomb on vocals, ukulele, and piano, Danny Coots on drums, as well as piano solos by Adam Swanson. 46 minutes. Adam Swanson is rapidly becoming known as one of the world’s foremost performers and historians of ragtime and early American popular music. He recently received his B.A. in classical piano performance and is now in his second year of graduate studies as a musicology student at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Although Adam is only twenty-three years old, he has been a featured performer and lecturer at ragtime and jazz festivals across the United States, and he is the youngest three-time winner of the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest. He made his New York debut in Carnegie Hall at the age of nineteen, where he performed with multi-platinum-selling artist Michael Feinstein. Adam has performed at the Cinecon Classic Film Festival in Hollywood and the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage in Washington, D.C., as well as in Hungary and Switzerland. He has worked with such musicians as Toronto’s John Arpin, former rock star Ian Whitcomb, and legendary 1950s recording artist Johnny Maddox, who is one of Adam’s greatest influences. Adam performs every summer at the historic Strater Hotel in Durango, Colorado, where he is musical director of the new Durango Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival. Visit Adam online: www.adamgswanson.com.