A truly great version of a truly great song:
I am working up this version to bring to the guys. Who is the mandolin player on this, anyone know?
A truly great version of a truly great song:
I am working up this version to bring to the guys. Who is the mandolin player on this, anyone know?
Just guessing Levon Helm, or maybe Sam Bush.
Levon is one of biggest musical influences, I'd be knocked out but surprised if it was him.
I can't find a date for when this was recorded. Looking at the notes from her 70's and 80's albums, there's a load of credited mandolin players - Bush, Skaggs, Stuart Duncan, Glen Duncan, Albert Lee...the list goes on. Hard to hear a distinctive style or tone on the cut. So, sorry, I'm no help
Mitch Russell
Best I can tell it was recorded in 1996, so around the time of "Wrecking Ball" and the Spyboy tour.
I really like the tempo and groove - economical playing that serves the recording very well IMO.
Great song and performance. Always loved Bob Weir singing this one too.
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An electric rig with an envelope filter trying to sound like Jerry...
Tim O'Brien's version too, on "Red on Blonde."
I think both Rickie Simpkens and Sam Bush were on tour with her in 2008.
Yeah, I was thinking it sounds more like mid to late 80's Emmylou.
Mitch Russell
To my ear it does sound like Sammy, something about the tremolo in octaves around the chorus, but i have been wrong before...
I should be pickin' rather than postin'
Sounds like Sam to me...
LOL, turns out I have the box set, I had forgotten about it. The box set does not actually list the performers on each track, rather it lists them all on the last page of the liner notes en masse. The set is roughly in chronological order, though, and the producers for this track are listed as Allen Reynolds and Richard Bennett, same as "At the Ryman" with the Nash Ramblers recorded in 1991. So it is quite likely (as other have mentioned), that it is Sam Bush.
Much obliged folks. Not that it has any impact on me recreating the part, I just like knowing the source. I would love to play in a pocket like that.
Another vote for Sam B. as well. He just plays circles around anything Levon H. ever played and I love Levon's playing.
Len B.
Clearwater, FL
Thanks for posting this. It’s a great cover of a great song.
Its not a backwards guitar.
Touch call...do I hear an octave mandolin in there as well?
I don't think it's Sammy because not enough of it says it is Sam and usually it's pretty obvious when he plays. Doesn't quite sound like Hoss either. That tremolo at the end does sound like Sam though but the repetitive Monroe box blues licks don't quite have the Sammy vibe to me.
I wonder....
I couldn't find track-specific credits, but for the box set the mandolin credits are listed as: Sam Bush, Vince Gill, Wayne Goodwin, Levon Helm, Kieran Kane, Albert Lee, David Lindley, Ricky Scaggs, and Jon Randall Stewart.
So I guess that "narrows" the list.
I just gave it another listen, have to vote again for Sam. I think I hear many trademark Sam licks, and even him playing some slide mando.
Or maybe it's one of the other nine. . .
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