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
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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.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'!
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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...Jim Fogle wrote:Rick,
You did some serious fiddling in the solo and ending. Mighty fine listening.
Sorry for the rant.
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It does not get any better than that, Rick. You sure got that tech stuff down.
It's easy to loose musical inspiration when that tech stuff rears it's head.
Great playing and production!
It's easy to loose musical inspiration when that tech stuff rears it's head.
Great playing and production!
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Chris, thank you for the nice compliment. You are so correct about the tech stuff. Things can get mechanical and dull really quick. With one man band productions you don’t have the interaction between different musicians that I think has been a major factor in some of the great records through the years. I try to think like a producer and also imaging what I might play on the other instruments when I record their part. Sometimes it works and other times I change from what I originally thought about. I’m learning as I go.Chris Templeton wrote:It does not get any better than that, Rick. You sure got that tech stuff down.
It's easy to loose musical inspiration when that tech stuff rears it's head.
Great playing and production!
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