Chris Thiles Old Favorites medley

[neo mandolin]

Hey folks! Need some help here. On Chris Thile's "Old Favorites Medley", what is the first tune he starts out with? I've been rackin my brain and cannt think what song it is. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[skippy]

It's actully the first song listed on the CD case. It's "The Girl I left behind"

[Harrmob]

I thought it was Dixie, Liberty, Arkansas Traveler, Whiskey b/4 breakfast, Dixie. "wish I was in the land of cotton".....neighborhood of D.

[jjboone101]

Believe you're right, starts with Dixie.

[neo mandolin]

hey skippy thanks, thats the one!! I knew it wasnt dixie, im a civil war (sorta)buff. But thanks guys!! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif

[neo mandolin]

BTW, any MP3's of this complete song on the net?

[Dru Lee Parsec]

Believe you're right, starts with Dixie.
Nope, it starts with "The girl I left behind". Then Dixie, then Liberty, Arkansas traveller, Whiskey before breakfast (with some variations) then a few notes of Dixie to end it. Then a tiny tiny 12 year old voice (it's Chris) shouting "Yes!"

I have it figured out up to about the middle of Arkansas Traveller. But just the arrangement of "The Girl I Left Behind" is so beautiful that I like to play that when people who havn't heard a mandolin before want to know what it sounds like.

[NickelCreeker]

Then a tiny tiny 12 year old voice (it's Chris) shouting "Yes!"

LOL! Everytime I listend to that my sister demanded I turned it off before he said that, for a very odd and unkown reason It freaked her out..HA. And I thought It was Dixie Land too..weird. Im most likley wrong, and I also thought the other little jig he added in there was that one Bumble bee song little kids always used to sing Back home in Texas... Cool song though http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[neo mandolin]

Then a tiny tiny 12 year old voice (it's Chris) shouting "Yes!"

Really? Seriously, I thought it was Sara Watkins! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[skippy]

To be perfectly honest (and perhaps a little harsh) you who did not know what song it was should go buy the album. It is a PHENOMAL album from a great player. The swing of Panhandle Rag and the dual mandolin on For all it's worth with Sean Watkins is neat. The whole album is just fun to listen too. I am not a RIAA nazi or anything, I just think that this album is one that should be in every mandolin players collection. Great tunes to listen to or to learn to. (And the album back also list's the names and order of the tunes on the old favorites medley)