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    Adam Tanner (Twilite Broadcasters) has the best renditions of old tunes that I know.....


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    As a fellow country blues picker, may I say wow, that is some pretty tough stuff. I've tried some Blind Blake but he just kicked my ass. One of the most talented players in any genre ever. I managed to work up BBF's Meat Shakin' Woman, as long as I never tried to sing. For the most part I stick with Mississippi John Hurt, Frank Stokes, and Elizabeth Cotten. Still wonderful guitarists, but approachable by mere mortals. I'd love to hear your rendition of Police Dog. That's a great one.
    nothing fancy like Jorma, that's for sure! I just tune to D and play it. Mostly, it's a song I like to sing. John Cephas taught me the basic outline of the song and that's all I play on the guitar. (John was my guitar teacher.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Charles E. View Post
    Adam Tanner (Twilite Broadcasters) has the best renditions of old tunes that I know.....


    Wow. Thank you. That, to me, is what the mandolin is all about.

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    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

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    A talent for trivializin' the momentous and complicatin' the obvious.

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    Thanks Jeff. A great tune. Care to post your mandolin break for it?

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    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.
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    "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

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    Don't forget Skaggs and Rice. That album was a big influence when it came out.


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    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

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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

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    Time to revisit this one.........




    I love Marty's playing on this.
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    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

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    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.
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    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):
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trav'linmando View Post
    I should have started playing 30 years ago.
    I have this thought almost every day.

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    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)
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    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.
    A talent for trivializin' the momentous and complicatin' the obvious.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Charles E. View Post
    I love Marty's playing on this.
    Yes, great tune:

    A talent for trivializin' the momentous and complicatin' the obvious.

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    Oh and this:



    Good version all. You can't keep a good tune down.
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