Re: Mary Jane's Last Dance
Well, that certainly is another way to do it! My band does this now and then, though we stick closer to the original in tempo and feel, despite being a trio with electric mandolin for lead. I kind of make it my homage to Mike Campbell, a great, probably underrated guitarist - too subtle, and too much of a team player, for his own good. Anyway, it sure sounds like you guys are having a good time. Do they normally do it at this tempo, or was it because you were there with a mandolin so they got into a sort of bluegrass mindset? (I get that myself a lot. It doesn't matter if we haven't played a lick of bluegrass, we'll get requests for it, just because there's a mandolin. Which they probably wouldn't even have known if they hadn't been told. Oh well, they're trying. Very trying. ) I like that you were playing the harmonica part after the first verse - I do that too - though you didn't keep up with that. Since you don't really get a solo, I think you should work on nailing that, and do it after the second verse too. After all, if you're a featured artist, you want to shine in your brief time on stage.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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