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Post by Dub on May 18, 2024 11:11:29 GMT -5
Very sorry, Evan. Condolences to you and Wendy.
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Post by Dub on May 18, 2024 11:04:10 GMT -5
It feels very sad to see him go.
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Post by Dub on May 18, 2024 10:27:53 GMT -5
Nice. I haven’t read the link yet but I remember reading somewhere that some experts think music came before speech.
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Post by Dub on May 18, 2024 10:23:20 GMT -5
Whit Smith seems to fancy it up, too. I thought Whit had an instruction clip on Take Me Back to Tulsa but I couldn’t find it on YouTube. Luckily I came across Matt’s clip which is easier to play than I remember Whit’s being. As LJ says, Matt’s (née Eldon Shamblin’s) isn’t that hard to learn and once mastered opens up a whole world of possibilities.
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Post by Dub on May 18, 2024 0:44:03 GMT -5
I've been humming that all day. It's infectious. And only two chords.
Ha!Sure it’s two chords, but here’s how those two chords are played.
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Post by Dub on May 17, 2024 18:47:38 GMT -5
We are now seated in Iowa City’s famed Englert Theatre waiting for our friends, The Burlington Street Bluegrass Band to kick things off ahead of Asleep At The Wheel.
Should be a great show.
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Post by Dub on May 17, 2024 15:26:54 GMT -5
If it wasn’t for baristas, who would keep all the tattoo artists employed? Mike YouTube guitar teachers.
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Post by Dub on May 17, 2024 11:54:03 GMT -5
Temps are in the 60s and 70s. Headed up to Tulsa today, skipping OK city entirely.
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Post by Dub on May 17, 2024 11:44:12 GMT -5
I spent a year in OK one week. … I remember oil rigs and buffalo and flat, brown, open expanse. When riding into Oklahoma City in the taxi from the airport, I asked the driver what there was to do in Oklahoma City. He paused a minute and said, “Well, nothin’ really!” When we had to travel to Houston, TX, at the beginning of April this year, I told GPS (Apple Maps) to avoid highways, meaning Interstates, on our return trip. The route took us up through eastern Oklahoma and some of the most beautiful roads and green hills we’ve ever seen, some of it just breathtaking. That must have been what Guthrie was thinking of when he wrote Oklahoma Hills. You’d almost want to spend some time there, it was so beautiful. Oddly, the “road less traveled” only added two hours to a three-day drive, hardly enough to notice, and the trip was soooo much more relaxing.
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Post by Dub on May 16, 2024 11:26:34 GMT -5
He’s talking about “mainstream music.” Genres like blues, jazz, or bluegrass that also require high skill levels pay less on the road than staying home and playing local gigs. JD Crowe stayed with his day job until retirement, and so did Del McCoury. Geoff Muldaur went back to work to support kids and pay for college. I think he only re-emerged after retirement.
Music a hard way to make a living.
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Post by Dub on May 15, 2024 8:34:44 GMT -5
…and it’s coffee time. Good to the last dregs. “Good to the last drop, just like it says on the can.”
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Post by Dub on May 14, 2024 22:25:39 GMT -5
It was horrible. Not just head-on collisions, but T-bones too. When some know-it-all yelled, "Circle the wagons!", you never knew which way those stupid homesteaders would turn. Wait. You had T-bones and you didn't call me for dinner? You were just a newborn and hadn’t developed teeth yet.
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Post by Dub on May 14, 2024 18:36:35 GMT -5
Hey, let's ask Dub. He was there. It was horrible. Not just head-on collisions, but T-bones too. When some know-it-all yelled, "Circle the wagons!", you never knew which way those stupid homesteaders would turn.
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Post by Dub on May 13, 2024 13:00:21 GMT -5
When listening to music, live, recorded, radio, I never spend a second wondering what key it is in, perhaps due to my ignorance. Am I unusual in this regard? No, you are quite usual. Most people, including most musicians, won’t be trying to identify the key they’re hearing. Musicians who can identify particular notes by ear (e.g., middle C) might notice the key but most musicians have only relative pitch and will hear intervals more readily than absolute keys. But listening to a series of tunes in the same key, especially if they’re at the same tempo, has the same effect as listening to a speaker say the same thing over and over using different words, phrases, and inflection, but always the same information or meaning. It’s why people fall asleep in church. Fiddlerina and I always prepare set lists for shows and arrange tunes so the key and tempo always change from number to number. We’ll do waltzes, rags, breakdowns, ballads, swing, etc., and keep mixing them up as much as we possibly can. We’ve actually had people come up after a show and remark that they noticed that and thanking us.
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Post by Dub on May 13, 2024 9:26:41 GMT -5
Good morning. Howard, around here every home has central air conditioning. Window units are for milder climates. I remember visiting Nova Scotia for our 25th anniversary. Halifax was full of window units. I could be wrong but I seem to remember that in early 1961, when I spent a week and a half in Phoenix, people didn’t have air conditioners as much as they had homes and buildings with cold water pipes built into the walls. At least I was told that what they did. Does that sound right?
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Post by Dub on May 12, 2024 22:13:10 GMT -5
I haven’t played slide in years but I still keep a Cabernet bottle neck in my guitar case. I’ve played both open tunings and “missionary.” I had a version of Sleepwalk worked up on my Tele that was very close to Santo & Johnny. I started with the slide on my pinky but eventually discovered that the ring finger is best, especially in standard tuning. This is because you often want to mix slide notes and fretted notes and you really want your pinky available for fretted notes.
I also have a mighty fine stoneware slide given to me by Millring.
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Post by Dub on May 12, 2024 20:07:47 GMT -5
Brief Eulogy —departed planet My body will not traveling together much longer
I begin to feel a new tenderness toward unfamiliar thoughts
l remember of love when I was young. Love that was so often foolish in its objectives and intensities
As though it were that soul, my hand moves over finally to achieve expression. I remember many of the stories, laughing, crying, writing at our joint. I will miss - my friend
I will miss you. Bob, is this the way you are feeling? What has prompted this?
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Post by Dub on May 12, 2024 20:05:50 GMT -5
I didn't mention it earlier but I had a heart attack six weeks ago and had to have a clot pulled out of one of the arteries (LAD). TERRY! You’ve got a bunch of people here who care about you. We’ve been worried about you since Pat’s stroke and your tinnitus. Please don’t cut us out when something like that happens.
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Post by Dub on May 11, 2024 14:44:40 GMT -5
I thought this interview was cool.
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Post by Dub on May 11, 2024 13:56:50 GMT -5
Fiddlerina and I have this memory of Scott.
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