I recently got my first Hot Rize album - their debut...the one with the biscuit on the cover.
Wow!
How did I go this long without ever getting into this band? Oh well, better late than never, right?
So, I LOVE "Powwow the Indian Boy". It's such a cool, minor-key sounding fiddle tune. One of the things that really blows my mind about this tune is the last part of Tim O'Brien's first solo. What is happening there?!?!?! It sounds like he's overdubbing a second mandolin for those cool, sort've trebly bends that happen right before the banjo takes back the lead...or is it just a guitar line playing a complimentary unison passage? It's not a banjo...I don't think. And I don't see how it can be one mandolin playing that because it seems like there is already one mandolin cross-picking a melody in a lower-range. So, it must be another mandolin doing those cool bending licks? I guess another way to phrase this question is: How can I do that?
Does anyone know this part, and have any good answers? In the meantime I'll just keep on giddily listening to it and pondering how it's being done.
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