WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?

[cozmik_cowboy]

Elvin: 

Peter

[cozmik_cowboy]

Dick Siegel: 

Peter

[David Houck]

Steve Winwood Carlos Santana

[edwardofhuncote]

Those guys both sound amazing... still playing/singing at a very high level.

[edwardofhuncote]

Still stuck on Alison Brown's frequency... the YouTube bots gifted me this one this afternoon; she revisits "St. Genevieve" from the "Twilight Motel" album years ago... this time without the string quartet, just her Julia Belle Signature Model.

Here's the original cut-

[bigredbass]

I got to admit that while I respected him greatly, most Don Williams made me think it was the audio equivalent of 'ludes, just so slow.

But.

This little jumping tune just makes me smile with the simple walking lines, a reasonable tempo, and the horn hooks.  Who knew?

[edwardofhuncote]

Remind me to tell you my Don Williams story sometime, Joey.


A friend of mine pitched me a link to this cool little fiddle tune, and asked for an explanation... I'd love to say I had one. Our surname is very specific, so this can't be a complete coincidence. I'll guess it originates from Western North Carolina, where most of us are, a few play music. Stylistically, it sounds more like Southern West Virginia to me...

[David Houck]

I pre-ordered Matteo Mancuso's new album, The Journey, today.  Here's the first song released, Drop D.

[dannobasso]

Thanks for that Dave. Another person I was not aware of that I need to listen to.

[David Houck]

Thanks for that Dave. Another person I was not aware of that I need to listen to.

That right hand technique, along with everything else.  Beautiful playing.

[rv_bass]

Bill Frisell Trio

[cozmik_cowboy]

A Memorial Day Set.

Eric Bogle:

Redgum:

Nathan Bell:

And Patrick Sky covering Dave Van Ronk (fair warning; this one is fairly NSFW):

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

I got the story of my namesake fiddle tune. During the pandemic, fiddler Sami Braman came across some recordings of a little-known fiddler named Queen Belle Honeycutt Randolph from Yancey County, North Carolina. We are most certainly related, the only question is how directly. It's most likely given her age, she was a younger cousin to my great-grandfather. She may even have been born into the next generation. (1904-2000) Talk about a small world!


Anyway, I got a nice reply back from Sami, explaining her original tune "Honeycutt" was inspired by Queen Belle, and Sami's band The Onlies had actually tracked a pair of Queen Belle Honeycutt Randolph's compositions as well. I'm ordering a copy.

[David Houck]

... I got a nice reply back from Sami ...

I noticed the recording was produced by Brittany Haas.

[edwardofhuncote]

Yep, saw that too, Dave. She played on a couple cuts as well.


Here was a pretty cool musical moment caught at the Country Music Hall of Fame... Alison Brown joins the Earls of Leicester to induct Earl Scruggs' storied Gibson RB-Granada banjo to the museum. They brought out Lester Flatt's Martin D-28, Curly Seckler's Gibson mandolin (an F-4 I think) Josh Graves' Dobro, and Paul Warren's fiddle to perform with, almost the full Foggy Mountain Boys complement of instruments. (I reckon they can't find Cousin Jake Tullock's Kay bass... c'mon?!)


Anyways... pretty cool for Alison, and the Earls here.