Paul Niehaus

Curt Trisko · Post by **Curt Trisko** » 26 Feb 2021 7:07 am

I saw a YouTube video of Paul Niehaus laying down a track for a recording. It sounded great and it struck me because his musical sensibilities in it lined up really well with where I am currently at on the instrument. Can you all on the forum help me put together a playlist of his 'greatest hits' to listen to and study?

Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 26 Feb 2021 7:53 am

Here's a full set Paul performed last night with Jon Byrd.
Starts at around 7:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=nEwiKP0F9Lo

Tucker Jackson · Post by **Tucker Jackson** » 26 Feb 2021 3:59 pm

Here's a link to a full album by Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell, "Sing Into my Mouth." These guys are doing cover songs here on this one-off collaboration project. Talking Heads song with steel, etc.

Paul is on most of the tracks. He's more featured on 'Anyday Woman'... really the first two-thirds of the album, and then a bit on 'Magnolia,' but he's all over the place, doing his ultra-minimalist thing. Maybe too minimal to be of much use as a practice/learning tool unless you're working on learning the hardest lesson of all, tasteful restraint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXBHPBE ... CE&index=1

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Robert Diehl · Post by **Robert Diehl** » 11 Mar 2021 6:59 pm

Two of my favorite albums he's on are Iron & Wine and Calexico's In the Reins (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGmWcV0 ... VZjFkEoY8E), particularly "Prison On Route 41," "History of Lovers," and "16, Maybe Less" and Justin Townes Earle's The Saint of Lost Causes(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9pXYG1 ... qSgKJPDlS8), particularly "Mornings in Memphis," "Frightened by the Sound," and "Over Alameda."

Hopefully someone else can stop in and speak to his work with Lambchop too.

Curt Trisko · Post by **Curt Trisko** » 12 Mar 2021 1:29 pm

I find this solo of his from a Lambchop song to be remarkable: https://youtu.be/S0835hPFSpI. It starts at 1:58.

Here's the YouTube video I saw that made me create this thread: https://youtu.be/cB-cjnomYEI. I think one thing that strikes me about it is that it is slow, but hits the right rhythms to still create a sense of movement and flow.