This week's winner is Father Along, which was submitted as a US Old Time tune. I'm not familiar with it, so if you were the one who suggested this tune, and know what you had in mind, please chime in! In searching for a tune/song of that name: Wikipedia has this for a song called Father Along, which it calls a Southern Gospel Song. I found this on abcnotation.com Just do a You Tube search for Farther Along, and it seems there are many to choose from!
The Byrds had a great version of this old gospel song on one of their more obscure albums. Lots of mandolin and nice vocal harmonies...
Loved this song since I hesrd it on the Flying Burrito Brothers' "Gilded Palace of Sin" album, There's a clawhammer version in Dan Levenson's Gospel Banjo book, that I'm currently revisiting. My 8-track recorder doesn't work at te moment, so for the time being, an older version with electric mandolin will have to do. https://soundcloud.com/tele1310/farther-along But I promise to record one with an acoustic mandolin, as soon as my Tascam works again,
I recorded this tune four years ago -- very straightforward on mandolin and tenor guitar. 1921 Gibson Ajr mandolin Ozark tenor guitar Martin
Lovely versions by both crisscross and Martin. Here's what I came up with this afternoon: Bob Michel Near Philly
Nice version, Bob! Is that a real accordion in the background?
crisscross-- It is. It's a one-row button accordion (melodeon) in D, actually. I do have a full-size piano accordion that I can play a little, but I'm much handier with the diatonic kind. Bob Michel Near Philly
