"Out on the Western Plain", Cathy Jordan on Tenor guitar

[Roman Pekar]

Great trio, all the members are quite famous musicians on ITM scene, they have awesome sound together. Some backup on tenor guitar here, so see no reason not to post it here



If you don't have their album - I'd highly recommend - http://greenlinnet.com/album.php?id=802

[Niall Anderson]

Looks like a guitar-bodied bouzouki to me - 4 courses of double strings, with regular guitar scale length...

[Roman Pekar]

Niall, you're right, looks like this is guitar converted to bouzouki/om, somehow I missed double strings. Can't delete my initial post, though..

[ambrosepottie]

Sweet. Who cares if the guitar has a few extra strings.

[billhay4]

This is an Ian Tyson song, isn't it?
Bill

[JH Murray]

Rory Ghallagher.

[Eddie Sheehy]

Huddie Ledbetter(Leadbelly) recorded it in Angola Prison, LA, in 1934...

[JH Murray]

I thought it was Leadbelly but most of the sites give Gallagher credit. I wonder if Rory added some verses.

[Eddie Sheehy]

Rory made it well-known. He used to play it acoustically...

[JH Murray]

The Unwanted's version definitely is based on Gallagher's rendition. A great song, nicely reborn.

[Charles E.]

Here is leadbelly's version

[Eddie Sheehy]

and Rory:

[michaeloceanmoon]

Oh man, i was pretty speechless about Leadbelly! I've never heard this tune and I feel like Leadbelly's original is so rich. I need to really listen to it much more to identify what all I'm hearing... Talk about roots!
I saw Rory amplified when I was a kid. To this day it was the loudest concert I've ever seen. My ears are still ringing. So I really appreciate the solo acoustic, quite intense, with premonitions of Jack White.

Thank you for the mistaken tenor sighting Roman and everyone educating me yet again.
Michael

[Dagger Gordon]

Seamie O'Dowd is a former member of Dervish and is in fact known more as a guitarist than a fiddler, I would say.
He plays guitar in a trio with Martin O'Connor and Cathal Hayden.
He is also a big Rory Gallagher fan. Here is his blues band at the Rory Gallagher Festival 2014.

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...kbscbrudWheeHw

[Roman Pekar]

While we're on this topic - this video by Seamie O'Dowd blows me away! He's quite accomplished harmonica player as well

[k0k0peli]

Nifty OP performance and Leadbelly is great. I cited this song a few days ago in my FACING EVACUATION thread. The Ian & Sylvia version ran through my head as I loaded instruments, artifacts, clothes in the wagon: If your house is on fire and there ain't no water around / Throw your suitcase out the window, let the gol-durn shack burn down. It's been my soundtrack ever since.

[Dagger Gordon]

While we're on this topic - this video by Seamie O'Dowd blows me away! He's quite accomplished harmonica player as well

Terrific, I would say!