Lonnie Knight: "Blue Grass" for Norman Blake

[casualplayerpaul]

A lot of folks here know that Lonnie Knight could play pretty much anything.

He went down to Rockford, Illinois in 1976 for a weekend at Charlotte's Web, warming up for Norman Blake and came back with his version of Norman's guitar show-stopper "The Old Brown Case."

Later, this little original LK tune was included on a record called "Guitar: instant production music," for Wisconsin public radio.

I don't think Lonnie ever bothered to digitize it, so I put together this basic video of one of the tunes. I thought some folks might enjoy it. I have the full album. If anybody would like to hear lots of LK instrumentals, I could do a longer excerpt at some point.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aaqz_78BcI

[drlj]

Nice. Thanks for posting.

[Village Idiot]

Pretty darned incredible, as was Lonnie himself. Thanks so much for taking the time to do this!

[millring]

That's great. I remember that Lonnie had done that with Blake. The tune "Old Brown Case" was one of the first flatpick guitar pieces I was familiar with -- having gotten the "Fields Of November" album when it first came out.

[billhammond]

Holy crap, how great is that!?!??! Thanks so much for posting it and count me among those who would love to hear more.

[casualplayerpaul]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL1MoHgW3VA

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrZTw_Yrgpk


1) Norman Blake playing the Old Brown Case- note hat tip to Lonnie in intro

2) LK playing OBC.

[casualplayerpaul]

I did a bunch of these with Windows Movie Maker, which was easy as pie. Still getting used to its replacements. Will post rest of that album when I get more efficient. Glad folks liked the first one.

[dradtke]

I'm another one looking forward to hearing more.

[TKennedy]

We went to see Gordon Lightfoot at Northrup around 1974 and this little guy opened for him.

There was just a chair and a mic on stage and he walked out, sat down, quietly said “Brown Case”, and lit into something I had never heard come out of a guitar before.

I became and remain a big fan.

[majorminor]

That was so good it made me smile.