My Band -A Haggard Song

[Bill Cunningham]

Here is a clip from the Georgia Mountain Fair Band show last Saturday night. The singer was one of our guests, 18 year old Courtney Arnold from Greenville, SC. Man, does she sing!

No rehersal as you can probably tell. The guests walk on and tell us the tune and key (if they know it) and we try to not have a train wreck.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqLWZdBBshQ

I am the steel player, by the way.

[Hook Moore]

Nice job Bill... The tele player buys his guitars and shirts at the same place ?
Hook

[bob drawbaugh]

Nice job Bill. Dang, I didn't know 18 year old even knew that song much less wanted to sang it.

[bob drawbaugh]

[richard burton]

How do you play a sad song on a banjo?

[Rick Campbell]

Hey Bill,

I like her phrasing. You played a great break. It's so good to hear somebody this side of the Mississippi doing real country music.

I know what you mean about the guest singers thing. I actually like that better than a structured show. Yes, they usually don't know the key, or sometimes they tell you and you kick it off and they sing it in another key anyway....and you have to modulate to something else. All fun, and I love it that way. I believe sometimes people get so wound up in perfection that it takes the fun out of the music......which is what music is suppose to be about anyway.

Was that Barry on the banjo?

Keep up the good work!

[Bill Cunningham]

Thanks for listening gents.

Nice job Bill... The tele player buys his guitars and shirts at the same place ?
Hook

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Hook, that's the emcee, Jim Wood. He's a great entertainer and is very witty. He will get a kick out of your observation.

How do you play a sad song on a banjo?

Very low in the mix is how you play banjo on a slow sad song.

Yes Rick, that is Barry Palmer on the banjer, mandolin, fiddle,and whatever. He has been in this group since he was just starting to play in the early 80's. You know in our part of the country you gotta have a banjo in the band. Sort of like a fiddle in Texas.

[Papa Joe Pollick]

That was great Bill,thanks for posting it..One question, why did they have you sitting way off yonder by yourself?? Forget to shower or did ya have chilli for supper??

[Roger Kelly]

Bill, great job! Every one in the band was very good, especially the Banjo player, for what he didn't play.

[Bill Cunningham]

Papa Joe,

I had taken a shower that particular day so they were lucky.

Seriously, there is an empty chair to my left where James "Chief" Childers, one of my mentors who has played guitar on this show since 1957, had been sitting earlier in the evening. James had a stroke last year and is still not back to 100%. He had tired and left the stage before this segment.

I think I posted this earlier but here is another segment from one of last year's shows. Brad Williams is singing Statue Of A Fool.

http://www.youtube.com/user/billcunn#p/ ... XTFP2dt7VE

[richard burton]

For gods sake, shut her up

She's the epitome of a pub singer, I can't stand that type of singing, every word starts with a H

[Rick Schmidt]

I liked it Bill!

RB...I've read you don't like C6 either, so that must mean that your opinions are more valid than some of us.

[Joachim Kettner]

The singer's voice makes me jealous also. Wow!

[Dick Sexton]

Bill I like the sound of your rack system...

[Michael Robertson]

For gods sake, shut her up

She's the epitome of a pub singer, I can't stand that type of singing, every word starts with a H

I love that dry facetious Brit humor!
By the way, what’s a PUB?