Anyone see Buddy E. on Prarie Home Companion last night???
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Yes, I would've liked to have seen Buddy featured exclusively on a tune or two; also it would've been cool to have the Big "E" instead of Vince Gill (and again, I do admire Vince's musical talents) do that intro interview/walkabout thing w/Garrison Keillor, as they made the rounds of Tootsie's, Broadway etc. that woulda been a great trip down memory lane:)
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Too much/too little Big E = flame bait.
What a loaded question! I refuse to answer anyway since I didn't see the show.
Neil Flanz called me yesterday and commented that Buddy didn't play much, but that Jerry Douglas is the Buddy Emmons of reso guitar. I agreed with him completely, since I've felt that way ever since 1979 when I first heard and met Jerry D.
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Neil Flanz called me yesterday and commented that Buddy didn't play much, but that Jerry Douglas is the Buddy Emmons of reso guitar. I agreed with him completely, since I've felt that way ever since 1979 when I first heard and met Jerry D.
BTW, bluegrass music... I'm a former 'grasser... is extremely difficult to perform well, and the level of professional bluegrass musicians' expertise on their instruments is very, very high. So high that I got out of bluegrass, in fact. IMHO, of course.
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Re: Anyone see Buddy E. on Prarie Home Companion last night?
I heard Buddy play on another PHC (I think the Cleveland one), and he did several instrumentals, as well as some more prominant backup work. It just happened to be on in the car, and I remember being surprised that he was playing the show.Bill Myers wrote:Last night PBS had a live Prarie Home Companion show for New Years at the Ryman in Nashville. I saw this great looking Zum and when they panned up, none other than Buddy was sitting behind it. His tone was impeccable....the problem is that they never let him really play.
I believe it's this one:
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/prog ... ndex.shtml
you can hear the show online.
I only heard a little bit of the NYE show, but it sounded like they had a LOT of pretty big names on the show, so it's not surprising that a number of people (including Buddy) didn't get to play as much as they probably deserve to.
He was sitting right up front (though I don't think that one was televised) - a few of the pictures:
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