Bluegrass band plays for stranded motorists in CO

**Charles E.** · Jan-30-2023, 1:49pm

Members of the band "Elk Range" entertained stranded motorists On I-70 in Colorado recently...

**Charles E.** · Jan-30-2023, 1:55pm

Oops, I meant to include the word "for" in the title.

**jaycat** · Jan-30-2023, 4:40pm

I wish my bass playing sounded that good, even without mittens on.

**mandognome** · Jan-30-2023, 10:03pm

Great way to make fun out of a bad situation, and what scenery! Great mandolin work. But that harmonica. It sounds like the player picked up the wrong key harp and didn’t realize it. A+ for good vibes though.

**DavidKOS** · Jan-31-2023, 9:07am

and almost no chop chords!

**Timbofood** · Jan-31-2023, 10:16am

Stranded motorists… Great name for a band! Or some kind of tune.

**pops1** · Jan-31-2023, 11:29am

Originally Posted by mandognome

Great way to make fun out of a bad situation, and what scenery! Great mandolin work. But that harmonica. It sounds like the player picked up the wrong key harp and didn’t realize it. A+ for good vibes though.

Sounds like she is playing straight harp instead of cross. As a friend of mine used to say about Dylan's harp playing " C off key"

**MikeEdgerton** · Jan-31-2023, 11:37am

Originally Posted by Charles E.

Oops, I meant to include the word "for" in the title.

I fixed it for you.

**journeybear** · Jan-31-2023, 12:42pm

Originally Posted by DavidKOS

and almost no chop chords!

Pretty sure he is playing so hard and fast to stay warm!

BTW, once upon a time I spent a year following the sun - winter in Tucson, summer in Boulder. When it got too cold to busk in the Pearl Street Mall I took off for the Bay Area. I stuck it out past Halloween, though, even if it meant playing with ski gloves on.

Crowd size sure had taken a dive by then, and along with that, tips.

**JFDilmando** · Jan-31-2023, 1:23pm

Cold....dry.... air... snow to boot..... hats off to those guys to subject their instruments to that environment.... I'd sure think twice... now that is the palce to have a synthetic mando or bass in your case, or in this situation, out of it and in the elements !!

**Charles E.** · Jan-31-2023, 2:39pm

I wonder if they played "foot prints in the snow"?

**journeybear** · Jan-31-2023, 5:13pm

Or for that matter, "Cold Rain And Snow," "Cold, Cold Heart," "Eighth Of January," Little Feat's "Cold, Cold, Cold," or Dar Williams' great sad song, "February." I'm sure they did not play "Summertime" or "Heat Wave."

**jaycat** · Jan-31-2023, 6:25pm

The harp sounds fine to me. Maybe you were expecting Toots Thielemanns?

**Charles E.** · Jan-31-2023, 7:06pm

I think the reason that the mandolin player was not playing chop chords is because the guitar player is absent. He was driving the rhythm bus.

**Mando Mafia** · Jan-31-2023, 8:50pm

Originally Posted by journeybear

Or for that matter, "Cold Rain And Snow," "Cold, Cold Heart," "Eighth Of January," Little Feat's "Cold, Cold, Cold," or Dar Williams' great sad song, "February." I'm sure they did not play "Summertime" or "Heat Wave."

….or “Icy Mountain”, “Snowflake reel”, “Snowbird in the ashbank”, “Cold frosty morning”…..

Pete

**Ranald** · Feb-01-2023, 12:47pm

Next time someone from down south asks if it's safe to take their mandolin outdoors when the temperature's going down to 40F, we can refer them to this video.

By the way, the fiddler, Graham Townsend, composed "Ice on The Road" under similar circumstances. The car he was in slid off the road, and he and his father made music to entertain the folks who stopped while they waited for help. I suspect the road was less busy than the one in Colorado in the video above.