View Full Version : What are your favorite Breakdowns?
Pattroglyph
May-30-2004, 3:43pm
OK soooooo....
What are your favorite breakdowns to play or hear?
And maybe why....
And which are special for you on the mandolin?
thanks...
Foggy Mountain Breakdown, of course
Earls' Breakdown (I love the bit with the Keith Tuners.)
John Flynn
May-30-2004, 5:01pm
I like Chinese Breakdown, in D, although in Missouri we call it the Catawissa Two-step. I like it because it is a really distinctive and fun tune. I like it on the mando because on the A part, when you are doing the A chord there is a double-stop with a hammer-on that I do twice that really sounds cool and enhances the tune.
evanreilly
May-30-2004, 5:08pm
"Louisville Breakdown" by Monroe. Twin fiddles; tho I believe an over-dub, rather than live twins.
peterbc
May-30-2004, 10:35pm
Overdubbed fiddles? That ain't bluegrass... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Peter Hackman
May-31-2004, 3:25am
My favorite breakdown is the one Monroe's bus had in
the mountains, inspiring that wonderful composition,
Crossing the Cumberlands.
Pattroglyph
May-31-2004, 7:44am
Oh what great information! Crossing the Cumberlands os soo haunting. Now those are great talking points to entertain while everyone retunes!! haahah
I did a search on the history of breakdowns and found some interesting titles. Wonder if any of you have heard any of these? on the folk music index
http://www.ibiblio.org/folkindex/index.htm
St. Laurent Breakdown
Straw Breakdown
Sycamore Breakdown
Taney County Breakdown
Tarheel Breakdown
Ten Little Indians Breakdown
Tennessee Breakdown
Texas Breakdown
Timber Ridge Breakdown
Turkey Creek Breakdown
Uncle Charlie's Breakdown
Union County Breakdown
Vee Latty's Breakdown in A
Victory Breakdown
Waldo Helton's Breakdown in D
Whalen's Breakdown
White Horse Breakdown
White Oak Breakdown
Wildcard Breakdown
Winding Stream Breakdown
Wood Chopper's Breakdown
Woodchoppers Breakdown
evanreilly
May-31-2004, 8:45am
The only time 'Crossing the Cumberlands' was a breakdown was when Lamar played it so fast that Bill commented on it.
Coy Wylie
May-31-2004, 8:59am
I'm partial to Clinch Mountain Breakdown ala Stanley Bros.
keymandoguy
May-31-2004, 3:47pm
Sorry to say Chinese breakdown is only one I know . need to hear more breakdowns so I can learnem http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif
jim simpson
May-31-2004, 6:29pm
I like Hot Burrito Breakdown & 19th Nervous Breakdown!
jim simpson
May-31-2004, 7:15pm
I almost forgot! Dawgy Mountain Breakdown by the Dawg himself as heard on Car Talk/NPR
OdnamNool
Jun-01-2004, 4:09am
"Communication Breakdown"... Drives me insane...
Actually, Dawggy Mountain Breakdown was originally called New York Ramble, but due to a copyright brew-ha-ha was re-named. Someone else claimed to have written it, Dawggy said otherwise, blah, blah, blah...ancient history by now.
OdnamNool
Jun-01-2004, 4:12am
Sock it to me.
OdnamNool
Jun-01-2004, 4:20am
Hey, AlanN...
You snuck in there and disrupted the flow of my posts!
OdnamNool
Jun-02-2004, 2:13am
Where was I? #Oh yeah... Somewhere along the lines of:
Go ahead and give it to me...
It's ALLRIGHT!
OdnamNool
Jun-02-2004, 2:28am
(Bruce Springstein (sp?) ??)
what flow? Your posts are inane.
Back to breakdowns...
Louisville Breakdown, a good one in G
John Flynn
Jun-02-2004, 5:24am
"Communication Breakdown"... #Drives me insane...
OdnamNool: LOL! I love that tune!
If I ever get caught up with everything I have to do, I've promised myself a nervous breakdown as reward.
http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
peterbc
Jun-02-2004, 10:46pm
Odnam,
Communication Breakdown is Led Zepplin, ya?
OdnamNool
Jun-03-2004, 2:17am
Yeah. #Led Zepplin. #And that other one is by Tom Petty, not Bruce Springsteen...
You are not very kind, AlanN... #Too bad! #That's what the world needs these days! Kindness... (Maybe one day you'll figure that out...)
(just another one of my "inane" posts...)
OdnamNool
Jun-13-2004, 5:36am
Well, gee...
I really did expect a comment from AlanN by now... What's up, man?
Tonight a very wise person reminded me that, "If you think in grand, evolutionary terms, biologically, even animals discriminate and choose on the basis of whatever it is that sets one individual apart from another."
In closing...
"You may say I'm a dreamer...
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
And the world will live as one."
Peace.
(just another inane post...)
Cragger
Jun-14-2004, 6:58am
where can i find a recording of "crossing the cumberland?" does anyone have an .mp3 i could listen to? i found the midi on mandozine but would like to actually here if before trying to play it from the midi. i couldn't find any of monroe's albums that had it on it but i only looked at like twenty of his 65.