Fun with "Arkansas Traveler"

[chuck3]

that's what these guys look like they're having ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxBMBm_ZI-g

[Hendrik Ahrend]

Arkansas or not, the fellow on the left came traveling all the way from Genova/Italy; super fellow and great player.

[chuck3]

Arkansas or not, the fellow on the left came traveling all the way from Genova/Italy; super fellow and great player.

And I do believe that is Emory Lester in the middle starting it off and ending it.

[Hendrik Ahrend]

Yep, it's Emory Lester. On the left is my buddy Martino Coppo from the great band "Red Wine".

[bbcee]

I just saw Red Wine play this last weekend at Al Ras for the first time. They're smokin'!

[Charles E.]

That is great but then I saw this in the side bar.......




Talk about having fun.
I have never heard of this band.

[John Rosett]

Sounds like Homer, Jethro, and Chet stole part of the Whippoorwils arrangement. Jetro has a great sosl in the middle. Starts at 5:05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE-UMCAcCeU

[chuck3]

That is great but then I saw this in the side bar.......



Talk about having fun.
I have never heard of this band.

ha - I saw that too - disregard the cornball humor, those guys can play!

[Reid Morsi]

Here's a version I recorded at the Watermelon Park festival this past September. Doesn't get much better than these two! A bit more fiddle than Mandolin, but I'm not one to complain about playing like that. Extra cool with the Dawg sporting a Mando Cafe hat!

[Jess L.]

Here's a version I recorded at the Watermelon Park festival this past September. Doesn't get much better than these two! A bit more fiddle than Mandolin, but I'm not one to complain about playing like that. Extra cool with the Dawg sporting a Mando Cafe hat!

Super nice, great foot-tapping rhythm, IMO this is what fiddle music is all about: dance music. Great stuff! Love it. Thanks for posting it.

Glad to see Mark O'Connor finally figured out how to put the rhythm back into fiddle tunes.

I never liked O'Connor's Weiser contest-winning fiddling back in the 1970s or whenever that was, guess I just didn't have an appreciation for contest style music, I couldn't get much sense of rhythm from his early fiddling.

This video is (IMO) a complete turnaround from his early stuff, it's obvious he still knows how to do all the fancy licks when it fits the tune without being a distraction, but -- at least if this tune is any indication -- he doesn't overdo it or let it get in the way of the tune. With age comes wisdom, I guess? (ha so I should be pretty darn smart by now, I'm pretty old, um ok maybe it doesn't always work that way lol.) Anyway I might have to look up some more of his music sometime, it's clearly improved a lot from how I remember it used to be.

[Hendrik Ahrend]

It may be my love for the mandolin, but to me it seems all too often that the fiddle is way louder (in the mix) than the mandolin, too bad.