Archive for the 'bluegrass' Category
It’s Bill Monroe’s Birthday
Happy Birthday to the Father of Bluegrass Music
Here’s Bill in 1993, a few years before he died, performing “Muleskinner Blues” at the Mall in DC.
Sam Goes to Lodi!
I finally got a chance to upload some pictures. These were taken at Pickin’ in the Pasture, an annual bluegrass festival in Lodi New York. If you’d like to read about the festival itself, which is fantastic, I suggest you go here, because when I go to festivals with Sam, I miss a [...]
Read More..>>Osborne Brothers: Ruby
The clip itself is awesome, showcasing both the soaring vocals of Bobby Osborne and the out-of-left-field banjo style of his brother Sonny, who is my personal favorite bluegrass banjo player of all time, However, to the real bluegrass freak, the gravy is George Shuffler on electric bass.
Holy shit.
Wind Gap, 8/3/07
I played at the Wind Gap Bluegrass Festival this past weekend with the Mill Creek Boys, who hired me as a sub bass player and then let me know I’m full-time. Thankfully, that’s not a huge responsibility as we never practice.
Unfortunately, that really showed during our first set, which was rougher than a fifty-grit [...]
Four Days Gone
Due more to accident than design, my four days at OATS were spent completely detached from the news: I missed the British bombing scare, the shutdown of the Pennsylvania state government, and God knows what else. I learned about it all when I got home, and the results were no different than had I [...]
Read More..>>Light Posting Weekend
I’m at the fabulous OATS Festival, so light posting (if any) this weekend.
Read More..>>Singing
I am not a trained singer, and on those occasions when I hear myself on tape, I am often appalled. And then I say “fuck it” and keep singing anyway. I like singing: it’s one of the things that make me happy.
My favorite singing is close harmony, like the Louvin Brothers and the [...]
Light Posting This Weekend
I’ll be playing bluegrass festivals all weekend, starting at about 4:00 PM today in Georgetown Delaware.
I’ll also be appearing at the Pocono Mountain Bluegrass Festival on Saturday and Sunday.
Have a nice weekend, and say hi to your pops on Fathers’ Day.
Better Days
Better Days
That Chris Ziter sitting on the bed with the bass, Zach Ward looking in the wardrobe, Neil Cleary playing a guitar that you can’t see because i’m sitting in front of him. This picture was taken in October 2001 in a hotel in Amsterdam. Neil and I were playing drums and bass [...]
Read More..>>Eat More Possum: a Tribute to Mike O’Ferrall
Mike O’Ferrall was a bass player I met back in 1999 or 2000, when I played a gig in a fire hall in Marydel, Maryland. Mike was one of the organizers, a big-bellied self-described hillbilly in ovreralls and a baseball cap, whose passion for bluegrass, friendliness, and outright hilarity was contagious. We spent [...]
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