Good Woman's Love

Rick Campbell · Post by **Rick Campbell** » 25 Jul 2023 8:45 pm

No steel guitar, all acoustic instruments recorded with mics. I've had request to do some bluegrass, so here it is. Hardcover traditional bluegrass as designed by Bill Monroe.

https://youtu.be/g0wL1kEgTuY

RC

Norman Evans · Post by **Norman Evans** » 26 Jul 2023 4:49 am

Rick, that's some mighty fine music! Thanks for sharing.

Douglas Schuch · Post by **Douglas Schuch** » 26 Jul 2023 4:39 pm

Great stuff! Always one of my favorite Bluegrass ballads. I'm more familiar with the version by Newgrass Revival. Keep on pickin'!

Rick Campbell · Post by **Rick Campbell** » 26 Jul 2023 5:51 pm

Douglas Schuch wrote:Great stuff! Always one of my favorite Bluegrass ballads. I'm more familiar with the version by Newgrass Revival. Keep on pickin'!

Thank you! Hank Locklin (Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On, I Fall To Pieces) recorded it first in 1955. I learned the bluegrass version from Bill Monroe.

RC

Jim Fogle · Post by **Jim Fogle** » 27 Jul 2023 5:45 pm

Rick,

You did some serious fiddling in the solo and ending. Mighty fine listening.

Rick Campbell · Post by **Rick Campbell** » 27 Jul 2023 10:45 pm

Jim Fogle wrote:Rick,

You did some serious fiddling in the solo and ending. Mighty fine listening.

Thank you! It's just long bow bluegrass fiddling with some colorful licks that I stole from guys like Vassar Clements, Benny Martin, Richard Greene, etc... I was never much of a "sawer". Crowds like the Georiga Bow sawing, but I think they also stereotype you into a category that is far removed from a true violinist. They come up with these corny expressions like: "A fiddle is a violin with a southern accent, or a violin has strings and a fiddle has strangs". For those reasons, I try to keep my playing in a different style. I worked for Bill Monroe some and he was very big on dressing nice, keeping your shoes shined, etc... he hated for people to associate his music with old time hillbilly things like wearing overalls, corn cobb pipes, moonshine stills, etc... I agree with his thinking. It's not unusual nowadays to see good country and bluegrass fiddlers that are classically trained. Buddy Spicher, Kenny Sears, Bobby Flores, etc...

Sorry for the rant.

RC