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i think jerry usually tunes a fifth below the fiddle, CGDA. i know some tenor guys will drop an octave below the fiddle.
i'd love to have a tenor, but haven't played them often. my first teacher was actually a tenor banjo guy from the golden age in chicago. he also played the tenor guitar, so i got used to hearing it and playing with it, but i was strictly a 5 string player at the time.
willie taylor plays tenor pretty much all the time-- good songrwiter from out round oakdale.
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01-11-2016 04:16 PM
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I'm not familiar with the tenor guitar much. It seems like a great comping instrument though as is the uke. I believe
Tiny Grimes tuned his like the top 4 strings of a standard guitar.
Is that Oakdale, Calif you refer to? It looks like CA from some of the video shots.
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Larry Collins went on to write the hits Delta Dawn and You're The Reason God Made Oklahoma.
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Originally Posted by Doctor Jeff
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Pettibone
Moving on, I guess this tune by The Hellecasters gives a hint that badass John Jorgenson would go gypsy...
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of any music style 90 percent is rubbish 10 percent is gold
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This topic's got me nostalgic - I've gone and been and dug up some Buck Owens on the Interwebs:
Dad used to listen to him on Radio Wewak in Papua New Guinea when we were there before Independence. I always loved that steel playing, likewise the fiddle playing. As you can hear, the guitar playing wasn't anything exciting. To be fair, is was better on some of his gospel songs, like this one:
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Originally Posted by Sandaun
First, the instrumental "Buckaroo"
and then one of my favorite among his many hits
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One of my top-ten favorite country songs
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Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
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Here's Jackie Phelps , a Starday recording artist back in the day ! Note the thumb-pick and index finger pick !
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Thanks for the correction on Doug Pettibone. I should know that, since I have most of Lucinda's albums. When I saw her she had Blake Mills as her guitarist--Doug must have been on vacation.
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Originally Posted by mrcee
he did the thing where he finished the last set by walking round the bar playing the trombone. great gig. bobby showed up and played steel. nice guy, too. one of the local kids brought him a tele to sign.
this is video (not mine) from the year before
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I saw Kirchen a couple of years ago at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley. I didn't know much about him but it was a great show. Was that Bobby Black on steel? A tremendous player with a great history.
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O.K. fellow pickers, here's a re-mastered "Pickin' Peppers" from Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant.
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Originally Posted by mrcee
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Can't forget Loretta Lynn....
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No you can't. This might be her first hit. It's a good one whenever it came out.
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This came late in her career, a duet with Jack White, and it is quite a feat.
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mcree--, yeah bobby black.
this is a cool thread. when i started out, all the local guys played either like jackie phelps (archtop and travis pickin, not his hambone schtick) or don rich (tele, picked hard through a twin).
and i really liked that jack white loretta album, too. good on that guy for doin that project. i actually kind of like his own version of "jolene," too.
so many good women artists right now, and almost none of them on the radio. brennen leigh's new lefty album is great. this is from the new eilen jewel
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Last edited by rabbit; 01-13-2016 at 05:25 PM.
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Originally Posted by klk
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More Tom Russell
The Rose of the San Joaquin was produced by Dave Alvin and Greg Leisz who also play guitar, slide, steel, mandolin, etc. on the album. Great writing and tasteful playing.
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ranger doug! hard to believe a guy with that many strombergs could be so nice. years ago, a friend of mine booked them into a nice public theater in a town filled with retirees. they had to go light on the "limp rope" jokes and drug references. killer trio.
and rose is one of my favorite tom russell tunes. saw him years ago in this tiny place out in the middle of the desert. he had a great flat picker whose name i can't recall right now. and then, in between his sets, this scraggly guy got up out of the audice of maybe 20 and did a set-- it was steve young. had no idea the dude was even alive. he did lonesome, onry and seven bridges and a few more i forget. great night. nice folks.
here's steve backed by a young junior brown
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Originally Posted by klk
That Steve Young is some good stuff.
Yes, Tom Russel is quite a talented song writer; I was listening to his 'cowboy operas': "The Man From God Knows Where" and "Hotwalker" today ("Hotwalker" is a trip, but also a captivating piece on post WWII American culture). What an amazing storyteller, I have the 3rd in the trilogy "The Rose of Roscrae" arriving Saturday.Last edited by MaxTwang; 01-15-2016 at 01:10 AM.
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What about the Texas Troubadours? At least we got Speedy and Bryant (the first telecaster player?)
Texas Troubadours:
... A young Willie Nelson is a nice treat, no? Listen to that guitar work! Leon play, play on Leon!
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