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Post by billhammond on Apr 21, 2024 20:17:13 GMT -5
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Post by billhammond on Apr 22, 2024 0:59:08 GMT -5
Or maybe this:
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Apr 22, 2024 7:28:58 GMT -5
Mikey likes it!
Mike
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Post by howard lee on Apr 22, 2024 8:52:10 GMT -5
I miss TR a great deal. It's so great for contemporary and trad music that he recorded so extensively. Thanks for posting this, Bill.
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Post by david on Apr 22, 2024 18:05:34 GMT -5
Bill, you are sophisticated, in a blue-grassy way.
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Post by billhammond on Apr 22, 2024 18:17:25 GMT -5
Bill, you are sophisticated, in a blue-grassy way. My favorite Tony Rice recordings are those of the gypsy/jazzy bent, so-called "dawg" music. I've long fantasized that if there were one genre of acoustic guitar playing that I could achieve to competence, it would be that style -- so inventive, so melodic, so dynamic in chord and rhythm structures. So the Tony Rice Unit and the David Grisman Quintet will always be on my "desert island" list of recordings. I find bluegrass pleasant but lacking in cool chord changes, etc. -- I think its history has defined a narrow range of qualities that purists feel as though they must adhere to. Many years ago, I used to drop into a weekly bluegrass gathering at a pavilion near me, and I'll never forget the evil glances I was shot while playing along capoless in A Major while everyone else was playing in G while capoed at fret 2. I thought the different voicing added interest -- they thought it added criminality. |
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Post by billhammond on Apr 22, 2024 18:33:27 GMT -5
Bill, you are sophisticated, in a blue-grassy way. I've been called worse!  (Thanks.) |
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Post by millring on Apr 22, 2024 18:57:03 GMT -5
It sounds crazy, but when I fell in love with Tony Rice's music, it honestly didn't occur to me that it was bluegrass. The first album I bought was church street blues. And the bluegrass I did associate with him was completely different from what came before as much because his wonderful voice was decidedly NOT bluegrass and his guitar so novel it barely echoed anything that came before.
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Post by PaulKay on Apr 22, 2024 19:03:10 GMT -5
This reminds me of Mike Dowling’s Ecclectricty album.
Unlike anything he was known for. Very different. Sort of a French Bistro vibe.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 22, 2024 23:01:09 GMT -5
One of my faves is the Rice and Skaggs album. Tasty.
Here’s a cut-
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Post by t-bob on Apr 22, 2024 23:25:15 GMT -5
One of my faves is the Rice and Skaggs album. Tasty. Here’s a cut- Are usually don't like the country music but this - ! HARMONIOUS INSTRUMENTS ! - one doesn't sing "TWANG" |
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Post by Dub on Apr 23, 2024 0:10:06 GMT -5
One of my faves is the Rice and Skaggs album. Tasty. Here’s a cut- I bought that album when it was first released. You probably did too. That is one of best albums ever made. Everything is spot-on perfect. The tunes are all remakes of older recordings by their heroes. They are done almost exactly like the originals except… they are way better. Other contenders for Best Album Ever include The Merle Travis Guitar (the yellow album), and The Bluegrass Album which again pays homage to the recordings that created bluegrass music. |
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Post by millring on Apr 23, 2024 5:15:10 GMT -5
That is one of best albums ever made. +1 |
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