Adam Tanner (Twilite Broadcasters) has the best renditions of old tunes that I know.....
Adam Tanner (Twilite Broadcasters) has the best renditions of old tunes that I know.....
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
ˇpapá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
'20 A3, '30 L-1, '97 914, 2012 Cohen A5, 2012 Muth A5, '14 OM28A
Just found on youtube, they have a super version of What Does the Deep Sea Say (Where is My Sailor Boy). I tried learning Doc's version of that a while ago and couldn't get it up to speed. I might have to try again. What a great tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nShA...&nohtml5=False
Thanks Jeff. A great tune. Care to post your mandolin break for it?
It's Friday, I don't feel like working. Just want to lay around the shack til the mail train comes back and roll in my sweet baby's arms. Or listen to and play music all day.
I play a variation of the fiddle part you hear on the recording. Very close to it. Often I play it with a guitar friend and he does the vocals, during which I do a rhythm strum. The chords are easy.
We have some extra verses that are authentic Charlie Poole but just not on this recorded version.
"I'm troubled"
Sit down with Grisman's version and learned a fist full of D licks/fills.
fun tune to pick on - easy vocal harmony
Don't forget Skaggs and Rice. That album was a big influence when it came out.
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
My Old Kentucky Home
Shenandoah
Keep on the Sunny Side
Columbus Stockade Blues
Don
2016 Weber Custom Bitterroot F
2011 Weber Bitterroot A
1974 Martin Style A
Lately, Little Sadie . . . not any of the bluegrass versions, but more the Doc Watson version adapted to mandolin.
Like FD, I'm mostly into the old acoustic blues on the guitar, lately Ways Like A Crawfish (Bo Carter), but also been into some of the Singing Brakeman's tunes, like Rough And Rowdy Ways
I've been thinking about trying a mando arrangement for Big Bend Gal
"She totes herself like a flying squirrel . . ."
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Down in the Willow Garden. The range on that song is huge - not sure if I can pull it off vocally without tweaking the melody line
Darling Nellie Gray
Time to revisit this one.........
I love Marty's playing on this.
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
Just worked out Bill Monroe's opening solo to On That Gospel Ship from the Bill and Charlie days. I just love the simplicity and drive of that early music. The little slides with rising dynamics really make this one. The youtube feature of being able to slow down to half speed without changing pitch is great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a83Mvd5u_Q
I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky
Tons of great old time songs done by The Carter Family, The Delmore Brothers, Uncle Dave Macon, Sam and Kirk McGee as well as the others previously mentioned. Go back to the old sources, if you can. Lots on Youtube and elsewhere.
Jim
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19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
My band has been doing "Washed in the Blood" since we started, but our original lead singer left the band a year or ago, and we stopped doing that piece. (He has a great "high and lonesome" voice and is sorely missed.) For 2017 I want to work it back into the repertoire with our lovely soprano now, but it is really a great sing-along song so we have to keep it in a manly key, since our audience is almost always men only. I worked up a really fun mandolin solo version of it, but I have not put it to paper yet.
Our version is almost, but not exactly, completely different from this one (we do I'll fly away as well):
https://youtu.be/R52heyok9Ps
Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
--William Shakespeare
Thanks to everyone who has posted. This is some great material and ideas. I'm still a newbie (<4 years) , however, I am working on "Sunnyside" and "Shady Grove". Plus the newbies group song of the month of course.
I should have started playing 30 years ago.
Very few of us know, how much we have to know, in order to know, how little we know.
Father Ed Dowling
Pava A5 #156
Eastman 815V
Eastman 514
Eastman 404
Godin A8
I really liked the Blind Boys. My dad was a flatpicker - so the guitars were familiar sounding to me especially the Rev. Gary Davis (coincidentally my dad was a Davis too but no relation)
2014 Rogue
2014 Weber F Gallatin
2012 Ison F Jewel
2016 Taylor GS Mini Guitar
2015 Weber Yellowstone
I played this tonight.
I Ain't a Bit Drunk
1. When she saw me comin', she wrung her hands and cried,
Said, "Yonder comes a booger man. Oh, where'll I run and hide?
CHORUS: I ain't a bit drunk, drunk, drunk.
I ain't a bit drunk, drunk, drunk.
I ain't a bit drunk, drunk, drunk.
I'm just from Alabam'.
I ain't a bit—
I ain't a bit—
I ain't a bit—
I mean just what I say.
2. She hugged me and she kissed me. She called me sugar-plum,
Throwed both arms around me like vines around a gum.
3. She hugged me and she kissed me. She called me sugar-plum.
Throwed both arms around me. I thought my time had come.
4. Where'd you get your whisky? Where'd you get your dram?
I bought it from a yaller gal away in Alabam'.
5. She hugged me and she kissed me. She called me sugar-plum.
Throwed both arms around me. She said she loved me some.
Oh and this:
Good version all. You can't keep a good tune down.
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