what's the deal with Dusty Miller

[sgarrity]

Here's Hartford playing it



You get some good shots of Compton's right hand here. Look at that pick flop!

[sgarrity]

David Davis......he's got the tone!

[dusty miller]

Shaun, That's really good stuff, David Davis -wow- really liked that one. So many different takes on it. I like the 3 part versions a lot. One of the songs you have to get up to a decent speed when learning it to really start to hear it but hopefully I can get it there.

Kris

[swampstomper]

Actually, if you play it in the Texas style it's not so fast, there is space for ornamentation and to hear all the notes. In typical Monroe fashion he sped it up, removed some notes, and put the emphasis on the right rather than left hand. Then indeed it needs to be up to speed.

I agree about David Davis, I saw him do DM live at the Lodi (NY) festival last year -- his whole show is Monroe-style bluegrass at its finest, and he has an excellent singing voice. He does a great version of Charlie Poole's "Milwaukee Blues". And he is a super nice guy, he showed me a few tricks on my mandolin (although for me to get them right is another story!)

[dusty miller]

I can play Jerusalem Ridge and thought my playing was coming along. Nothing like another Bill Monroe tune to put me in my place! Not an easy one, now I have to go get my mandolin out of the yard where I threw it ( not that bad but needed to walk away)

[Dave Reiner]

Thanks to all who posted those superb versions - I was listening carefully to both the mando and fiddle players.

The tune brings back some good memories for me since it was among the ones I played to win the Wisconsin State Fiddle Championship a few years ago. Well, ok, 35 years ago, but who's counting... The Texas version usually has four parts, including a high last part.

Dave

[almeriastrings]

I worked up a version based primarily on Monroe's, but with a (kind of) Celtic-sounding load of rapid hammers and pulloffs thrown in the second part, making use of open strings/drones. Really just to fill it out as I mostly have to pick it with just a guitar for backup, decent fiddle and banjo players being rarer than hens teeth in this location. I will see if I can record it over the next couple of days.

[mandolirius]

Love this song obviously and maybe I am biting off more than I can chew but I have a couple of tabs around here I've found on this and can't get it to sound anything like it. Does anyone play this have proper tab or tips on how to play it? I can at least get songs like Old Ebenezer and Jerusalem Ridge sounding like they are supposed to at a slow pace, this song is a mystery. Any advice.....Kris

I recorded an audio lesson for you earlier today. For some reason I'm unable to upload it here but I could email it to you if you p.m. me your address.

[dusty miller]

I recorded an audio lesson for you earlier today. For some reason I'm unable to upload it here but I could email it to you if you p.m. me your address.

THANK YOU Michael, I sent you pm

Kris

[mandolirius]

Ok, I emailed you an mp3. I'm going to see if I can fix the file so I can post it here.

[Earl Gamage]

There are also two Dusty Millers, the Monroe bluegrass version and a old time version. Which tab do you have?

There might be more than two versions. There is Alan Munde's & Sam Bush's 3 part version, I think from Poor Richards Almanac. I need to study this thread and see if anyone else is playing 3 parts. This tune can be pretty confusing because of all the different versions.

Seems like this tune is really three parts from most of the comments.

[Mark Normand]

Would like to bring this up again.

Anybody have any YouTube suggestions for a slow down version of this? Or record a simple slower version MP3 via email?

Got the first part, kinda stuck now. Thanks! 👍🏻

[Mark Gunter]

Check this one . . .



Lengthy Bill Monroe story, and Dusty Miller performance at 4:23

[Timbofood]

Not one of my regular thread visits but, thank you markscarts! The Tony Williamson story is very cool, I wish I'd been there.

[John MacPhee]

Great work sgarrity, MC would be very proud.
Congrats and thanks.
Now I will just go and crawl into a corner and sulk. hehehehehe!
Cheers
John