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Good Woman's Love
Posted: 25 Jul 2023 8:45 pm
by Rick Campbell
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
Posted: 26 Jul 2023 4:49 am
by Norman Evans
Rick, that's some mighty fine music! Thanks for sharing.
Posted: 26 Jul 2023 4:39 pm
by Douglas Schuch
Great stuff! Always one of my favorite Bluegrass ballads. I'm more familiar with the version by Newgrass Revival. Keep on pickin'!
Posted: 26 Jul 2023 5:51 pm
by Rick Campbell
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
Posted: 27 Jul 2023 5:45 pm
by Jim Fogle
Rick,
You did some serious fiddling in the solo and ending. Mighty fine listening.
Posted: 27 Jul 2023 10:45 pm
by Rick Campbell
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