flatbaroque Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 been working on originals and having trouble finishing anything. Need to blow out the cobwebs.Here's an old appalachian banjo tune. Bascom Lamar Lunsford gets credit for it..but it was around in various forms before he did it. Young Bob liked it too as he referenced a couple of lines about vampiric railway men...one for the trainspotters. Fun song...i worked it out in open G.gave the martin OM-18v a run too. Cheers all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 been working on originals and having trouble finishing anything. Need to blow out the cobwebs.Here's an old appalachian banjo tune. Bascom Lamar Lunsford gets credit for it..but it was around in various forms before he did it. Young Bob liked it too as he referenced a couple of lines about vampiric railway men...one for the trainspotters. Fun song...i worked it out in open G.gave the martin OM-18v a run too. Cheers all. haha , thats great mr baroque ... was bugging me with the $9 shawl lyric , but if del zepnipples hears it he will understand ,, a while ago me n him posted about jackson c frank ... he has a song called 'kimbie' , google it mister , i promise you'll like him , and theres no doubt he has heard your song or whoever wrote yours has heard his . thanks for entertainin us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatbaroque Posted November 30, 2012 Author Share Posted November 30, 2012 That's funny BBG...yea i just checked it out..the same song with a different name...My transcription says Kimpie not Kimbie as well. I read somewhere where the real lyric should have been Tempe...short for Temperence a common name then and a play on prohibition times. Alan Lomax or was it Harry Smith? the blokes that searched out these songs for recording...one of them transcribed the lyric wrongly. I also investigated Samuel C after Del's cover...some good stuff there...although I liked Del's version of Blues run the game even more than the original. I see Nick Drake has a Kimbie too......At least Bob only pinched a couple of lines..haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Nilppeznaf Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Good one FB... you look a bit moley in the vid..hiding between the song sheets and the top of the camera :) hehe Song reminds me of Frog went a Courting...which Bob does a version of..also in an Appalachian kind of style.. though it's an old English tune original and surley those railway guys gonna drink your blood like wine.... ( Stuck Inside of Mobile ect'............ haha..i cheated and Wiki helped me out ) btw..the version of Blues Run the Game I posted isn't my arrangement.... Bert Jansch's. Glad you liked it tho ( as an aside I met a young guy, fiddle player, from the Ozark Mountains a few days ago down in Galway.. great session going in a pub there and he was mixing the Appalachian/ Mountain music up with traditional Irish stuff.. all kind of going full circle Good Guinness and Good Times ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Good one FB... you look a bit moley in the vid..hiding between the song sheets and the top of the camera :) hehe Song reminds me of Frog went a Courting...which Bob does a version of..also in an Appalachian kind of style.. though it's an old English tune original and surley those railway guys gonna drink your blood like wine.... ( Stuck Inside of Mobile ect'............ haha..i cheated and Wiki helped me out ) btw..the version of Blues Run the Game I posted isn't my arrangement.... Bert Jansch's. Glad you liked it tho ( as an aside I met a young guy, fiddle player, from the Ozark Mountains a few days ago down in Galway.. great session going in a pub there and he was mixing the Appalachian/ Mountain music up with traditional Irish stuff.. all kind of going full circle Good Guinness and Good Times ) theres a cool show called the transatlantic sessions that showcases that similarity between the irish traditional and the early country music from the states .... i always liked the american influence ..... i'm jealous i wasnt in galway for that one del ! havent been galway in a couple years , lovely town , i find it hard to leave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatbaroque Posted December 2, 2012 Author Share Posted December 2, 2012 I hope to make it to Ireland one day. Any place where guitars and guinness are often found together sounds good to me. Interesting about the links between Irish Traditional and American country music. Most Australian folk songs have obvious direct musical roots to the English / Irish folk tradition...but maybe there is an American component as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Nilppeznaf Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 BBG yea i know that show.... have seen it before..some good stuff on there. Galway is class for music and general culture..planning to move a little closer in the new year ...gis a shout if ya head that way..have a pint :) FB Me and the young American fella where having a good chat..( exchanging hat stories among other things ..his was from New Orleans and mine from Peru..a Yank a Pom in an Irish bar talking about hats while playing roots music..haha..thats Galw`ay for ya ) anyway..we were talking about the Appalachian / Cajun/ American folk music..and obviuosly most of the Early settlers where European..so..there is the whole English/ Scottish/ Irish and French influence..and then of course you have the whole African influence with the synchopated rythyms ect... making it uniquely American and unique to that whole area.. Oz doesn't have the African influence does it... would be interesting to learn more about Aboriginal music.. I have heard some interesting stuff with a didgeridoo... don;t know if it wud suit ya style though FB ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatbaroque Posted December 2, 2012 Author Share Posted December 2, 2012 Yea I don't know much about the intricacies of the didgeridoo...but it was definitely some of the first dance / trance music...and still works well for that genre. Talking of Peruvian hats...here's a photo of a blind busker in Cuzco, Peru. He was playing a 10 string guitar in an open minor tuning...was quite haunting...could have been almost a Skip James song....I went back to watch him twice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroAussie Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Oh man, that was awesome FB ! I could swear I was litening to Dylan. Really tasty stuff, love the harp, really would love to learn how to play that instrument. I have one in C gathering dust for last 10 years, will need to dust it off. Your OM-18v sounds so much like my Furch, which I guess is no surprise as that guitar was the 'inspiration' for the Furch design. Really enjoying your stuff FB, both the covers and originals, nothing like a good ol' lazy Sunday tune ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatbaroque Posted December 2, 2012 Author Share Posted December 2, 2012 Thanks very much EA. My harp playing is strictly "Suck it and see" haha...but as long as its in the right key it's hard to make a real mess of it....give it a go...you'll have some fun...maybe get a D and a G as well...to give you more options. Or with your country blues picking try a bit of cross harp (you can google how that works)...ie for a bluesy sound when playing in E you use an A harp. Cheers mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyReb Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Great stuff FB as usual That's a interesting way you describe playing the blues harp. That's pretty much my approach to it as well. I got a few my dad brought home from the Vietnam war that I managed to not tear up when I was a kid. Lots of fun once you get the hang of it. Just a lot of trial and error until ya figure it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojorule Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 BFlat, Maestro! Ace stuff, the Martin sounds mighty fine (not at all like a banjo). It almost growls - not in the Gibson way, but plenty o attitude. And like EA, I hear Uncle Bob, specifically Blood on the Tracks-era Bob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatbaroque Posted December 3, 2012 Author Share Posted December 3, 2012 Thanks JR and Mojo.Always nice to get some feedback from the peers.I did also post this on the AGF and it just sat there unloved like a big old smelly skunk...or mole as the case may be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParlourMan Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Thoroughly enjoyable FB... I'll have to give you one of these : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroAussie Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Thanks JR and Mojo.Always nice to get some feedback from the peers.I did also post this on the AGF and it just sat there unloved like a big old smelly skunk...or mole as the case may be I also posted my Back in the USSR thread title and it died pretty quickly as I think the ol' boys got a shock it wasnt a Beatles cover but those evil doers 30 seconds to Mars ...lol ... Maybe Ill try a version of jingle bells or silent night next time .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParlourMan Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 I also posted my Back in the USSR thread title and it died pretty quickly as I think the ol' boys got a shock it wasnt a Beatles cover but those evil doers 30 seconds to Mars ...lol ... Even amongst a younger crowd, and a middle crowd of our age, EA, you're the only person I've ever run into who seems to be into them. I was at a local festival where they played, typically a lot of those nu-wave American bands do quite well here, green day, blink 182, good Charlotte, Billy Talent etc go down a storm here, wasn't quite a washout for them but not exactly a win either. I suppose it's a tough sell when it's viewed as a side gig for an actor... That wasn't the festivals finest line-up though... They've had much better years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroAussie Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Even amongst a younger crowd, and a middle crowd of our age, EA, you're the only person I've ever run into who seems to be into them. I was at a local festival where they played, typically a lot of those nu-wave American bands do quite well here, green day, blink 182, good Charlotte, Billy Talent etc go down a storm here, wasn't quite a washout for them but not exactly a win either. I suppose it's a tough sell when it's viewed as a side gig for an actor... That wasn't the festivals finest line-up though... They've had much better years. To be honest Im not really into them hardly at all, but I just really liked that particular acoustic arrangement of that particular song. I never knew of this band until my singer pointed it out. Its same wiht many other artists where we might like a particular song but not really into the artist as a whole, Neil YOung is a good example. I generally cant stand his whiney high pitched vocals but love Old Man as a track. Its all about song selection really, and the thing is that it really works in our set list where we will go in one set from Neil Young to 30 sec to Mars to Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Keeps the crowd guessing and they enjoy wondreing what wil come next. I think its much more interesting that doing the standard Brown Eyed Girl, Sweet Home Alabama routine, we leave that for others ..its worked for us very well. Feel free to take a listen to our take on it, I think the song stands up really well for what it is. Its further down the page now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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