I suppose when you're a video director, or marketing department, faced with a project like this it must cause minor palpitations.
'Do I stress the beaten track or the off-beat?'
For me, i have...
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I suppose when you're a video director, or marketing department, faced with a project like this it must cause minor palpitations.
'Do I stress the beaten track or the off-beat?'
For me, i have...
'That music … especially from the first two Nickel Creek records — it just sounds unbearably smug to me.'
Mathews, Cameron "Punch Brothers’ Chris Thile Embraces ‘Relative Incompetence’,...
Thanks for that - i have'nt heard the expression 'spruced-up' in an age, it brought a smile to my face.
Given the context i keep thinking it should be a luthiery term.
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I'd say he'd be lost if not for our sartorial pointers and cosmetological observations.
Cool we're not even four posts into a Chris Thile thread and we're already feeling the love.
How long before someone suggests he get a haircut, button up his shirt, straighten his tie, and fly...
'Right, right'
Simmons, Michael John 'Chris Thile Interview',https://www.fretboardjournal.com/magazinegeneration-gab/ Fretboard Journal (December, 2008.)
'Right, right, right'
Ibid
'Wow'
I believe it is a 'gigue' of Girouards
'Wielding his unmistakable 1935 Epiphone archtop, Rawlings showcases a little of that improvisational, single-note-driven playing, riffing off his recent sophomore release as Dave Rawlings Machine,...
Thank you kindly, JL277z.
Thanks for all the replies and the musical snippets ... and thanks for indulging me - i was'nt sure if my question had any sense or merit.
In particular, it was interesting to compare those two...
Do Irish / Scottish Mazurkas swing?
Just thought I'd pop by and pick the brains and, hopefully, pique the interest of some regulars here.
Recently, I've been looking at playing through mazurkas...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSNbbuq8AmY
Just curious, but, did anyone manage to fulfill that request?
Should'nt that be in the Polish section, then?
(ah, just kidding - kinda)
For me, it's not a question of either Mr McCoury or Mr O'Brien being modest or likable or indeed eloquent ... it's nothing to do with my comments
Indeed, I'm not judging either man's personality...
The music is great but, boy o boy, that interview is kinda uncomfortable to watch.
Still, more power to both of them - fine musicians both.
'Bill Monroe, he was pretty danged Americana' - yep...
'Pegatory' - constantly having to tune up my old mandolin with the stiff tuners.
Funny ... i've noticed the music played on these instruments is usually from cultures other than those of the players and which also usually reflects some sort of idealized romantic community that is...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7nrcb3oGkc
First, folk's reactions are kinda cold but after a bit of playing they start to wake up to the sound.
But in general you'll find that its only after time that people really open up to it.
By the by, your original post only gave examples of french children's songs - is this still the case?
If not, there are a lot of French folky singer-songwriters (like Rusby and Seeger) that could...
AH ... ok, that's a bit more specific than the OP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEZQnneCwlk
Brilliance is not exclusive of precedence ... though, replace those collicky babies with banjo players and you do have a readymade MandoCaf meme.
And, so as not to be derailing the thread .... i...
This ... this is a brilliant comparison. :))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ2okOvE6xQ
Aimer n’est pas un crime
Là-bas dans la prairie j'ai entendu la voix
La voix de ma bergère Ah je m'en vais la consoler
Qu'avez-vous donc la belle...