Re: Jerusalem Ridge-- History?
"Kentucky Mandolin" is a real important tune of Bill's. It is not that hard to learn or play, and if you heard a fiddle player saw it out it would just seem like a good minor key reel. Bill's tone on it really lets you hear the Loar top to bottom, and the Gm key lets that "ghost" Bb overtone that Bill could always hear in #73987 reverberate. It also stakes his instrumental claim as the originator of the Kentucky bluegrass mandolin style. I'm sure that at the time that he recorded it, as a mandolin instrumental it was totally unique it's tone and drive.
But Amsterdam was always good for grieving
And London never fails to leave me blue
And Paris never was my kinda town
So I walked around with the Ft. Worth Blues
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