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[Nathan Sanders]

Graystone Bluegrass Revival from Newcastle Oklahoma:
Jerry Wickersham - Guitar
Danny Watters - Bass
Nathan Sanders - Mandolin
Jeremiah Staton - banjo (filling in for our regular banjo player Roger Epps who was out of town this day).

[Kerry Krishna]

And now for something completely different... This is the Canadian touring band I was with for 5 years up here in the early '90s. Coast to coast to coast, and I didnt sleep in my own bed for two and a half years. Acid/Folk at some pretty loud volumes. We did folk fests up here for years including 4 Main Stage shows at Winnipeg Folk Fest over the years.( WFF is a pretty big thing up here in Canada, trust me), and actually even played at the Commador Ballroom in Vancouver once. We also did a bunch of touring/shows with Sarah Mclaclanover the years. Our guitar player Luke Doucet left our band to become Sarah's guitar player for 5 years. He is now all over Serius Radio too with his band The White Falcons. Here we are doing Hendrix's Crosstown Traffic. Now THIS is what a Monteleone is REALLY for folks...
Acoustically Inclined
"Crosstown Traffic"
Live at the Starfish Room
Vancouver, BC 1994(?)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V1foLxEt6c

[Kevin Briggs]

Here's an original for you:

[journeybear]

And now for something completely different...

This was worth embedding for y'all - pretty wild!

( WFF is a pretty big thing up here in Canada, trust me).

Yes it is, indeed. My old jug band played there in 1991, and it was a massive experience. I've yakked about it before, and probably will again. Sarah McLachlan was there too that year, though as an unknown she didn't register and I completely missed her. Luke Doucet was half of the two-guitar attack in her great (and greatly underrated) touring band for years in the 1990s. I think Sean Ashby was the other. Though they concentrated more on textures than leads, they were very accomplished in both, and were so organically intermeshed it was hard to tell who was doing what. Very cool, KK!

[Mike Bunting]

And now for something completely different... This is the Canadian touring band I was with for 5 years up here in the early '90s. Coast to coast to coast, and I didnt sleep in my own bed for two and a half years. Acid/Folk at some pretty loud volumes. We did folk fests up here for years including 4 Main Stage shows at Winnipeg Folk Fest over the years.( WFF is a pretty big thing up here in Canada, trust me), and actually even played at the Commador Ballroom in Vancouver once. We also did a bunch of touring/shows with Sarah Mclaclanover the years. Our guitar player Luke Doucet left our band to become Sarah's guitar player for 5 years. He is now all over Serius Radio too with his band The White Falcons. Here we are doing Hendrix's Crosstown Traffic. Now THIS is what a Monteleone is REALLY for folks...
Acoustically Inclined
"Crosstown Traffic"
Live at the Starfish Room
Vancouver, BC 1994(?)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V1foLxEt6c

Also, the Edmonton Folk Festival too as I remember.

[journeybear]

There are folk festivals in every province during the course of the summer, if I recall correctly. My band was invited to play at Mariposa (near Toronto) but our fearless leader turned it down due to a prior commitment to a lousy town fair. And I do mean lousy - we were competing with the pig races while most would-be attendees were still in church. But I digress ... Our northern neighbors have us beat in this regard. These are enormous festivals with an incredible diversity of talent, and in more fields than music, too.

[Kerry Krishna]

Thanks Mike, Journeybear. It was a wild run for those 5 years. I cant believe you posted my pic like that Mike! So that band would not have formed ( and my life would be totally different) if I had not got the Monteleone. It all formed around that instrument that I could'nt play well enough. The Edmonton Journal ran MY FACE on their front page on the Saturday too of the Fest too! I woke up to two women (folk fest volunteers) I had never met before, pounding on my hotel room doorat 6 in the morn to show me! I'll NEVER forget! And the Journal did the exact same thing (with a different pic of me) the next year! And we wer'nt even playing there that year.And The Violent Femmes were the band we warmed up at Edmonton Folk Fest. We did almost 50 fests in the 5 years we were out too.

[journeybear]

Actually, that were me, Kerry, and I hope that was all right ... ... Don't thank me, though; that was done by whomever uploaded the video in the first place, who apparently did a little video production. When I embedded the clip it just rested on that still.

[southcoastsounds]

An arrangement for the octave mandolin of Franz Lehar's piece from the Merry Widow, "Vilia Dal". The familiar theme starts at 1 minute 15 seconds



Tom

[billkilpatrick]

beautifully played, tom - sounds like a drawing room favorite from long ago ...

[southcoastsounds]

Good morning Bill. Always a pleasure to have a response from a fine player like yourself!

The lyrics to Vilia are as follows

Vilia, oh Vilia, oh let me be true;
My little life is a love song to you.
Vilia, oh Vilia, I've waited so long;
Lonely with only a song.
Vilia, oh Vilia, don't leave me alone!
Love calls to love and my heart is your own.
Vilia, oh Vilia, I've waited so long;
Lonely with only a song.
Only a song
Only a song

I seem to remember my mother singing it to her own piano accompaniment back in the 1950s when I was a young 'un

Tom

[billkilpatrick]

whoa! ... tom - thanks. i remember my mother and father harmonizing on "coney island wash-board blues" and him playing uke' and singing "on top of ol' smokey" ... the music sort of stopped when we got a tv in '58.

"look through any window" by the hollies:

[Jill McAuley]

Absolutely lovely, Tom - well done to you sir!

Nice one, Bill, you're Loar sounds great!

Cheers,
Jill

[hank]

Great stuff everyone. A lot of very different ways to skin a pig. Thanks again for sharing Nathan, Kevin, Kerry, Tom and Bill.

[fhaz]

xx

[fhaz]

Not in the same league as you guys, but here's a video of my wife and I with the traditional bluegrass pairing of cello and mandolin.

[southcoastsounds]

Not in the same league as you guys, but here's a video of my wife and I with the traditional bluegrass pairing of cello and mandolin.

And the beauty of the mandolin is that you can play cello music on it!

Nice video - well done. I don't know that tune but its not unlike Ashokan Farewell.

Tom

[southcoastsounds]

Bill

You had me really worried when I saw your new avatar - I thought you'd just spent a fortune on plastic surgery - and for it not to be an improvement!

Tom

[fhaz]

And the beauty of the mandolin is that you can play cello music on it!

Nice video - well done. I don't know that tune but its not unlike Ashokan Farewell.

Tom

The tune is "A Place in the Heart," from Butch Baldasari's album "New Classics for Mandolin." I first heard the tune when he played it with the symphony orchestra my wife belonged to when we lived in Missouri. Scott Tichenor plays it on "The Road Home," in an arrangement I like even better than Butch's.

[billkilpatrick]

clarence carter classic "slip away" - virtual jam with stef:

[billkilpatrick]

"and your bird can sing" - great riff (george and paul both played lead guitar on this but it sounds georgian to me) :

[Keith Wallen]

Hey everyone we have a new take or video on the Superstitious video I posted earlier. Who ever posted the last one has taken it down so we wanted to get another one up. This was after we did a video shoot of another song that is on our cd. We were hanging out afterwards messing around. Although I have jammed with Stevie (fiddle) a couple of times now this was his first time back with the band after quadruple bypass surgery. We played this song twice during the day so it was the third time Stevie has ever played it. But he is so talented it doesn't take him long to come up with something awesome. We still have some work to do on the arrangements because we want to spread things out a little and still add the horn lines in. In prep for a recording targeting 2nd quarter 2010. We are getting ready to go in the studio now for a gospel project.

[Baron Collins-Hill]

Here is a little Tim O'Brien set i recorded not too long ago



Thanks,
Baron

[Matt DeBlass]

I had recorded myself working on an arrangement of "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" just to see how it sounded, and liked the way it came out. I was going to post it here, but on closer inspection I realized that my fly was down for the whole thing!
Needless to say, THAT won't show up on the internet any time soon!

[Keith Wallen]

Matt