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Recorded on a Gold Tone TB-100 (5-string) travel banjo in 2001. I arranged this tune on the TB in a hotel room in Chicago while I was there on business. It's a D tune but is played here in E because the TB is tuned two frets sharp. This tune has a nice arc for me. I once had a banjo student named Amelia Stiles. She casually mentioned during her last lesson that a friend of her parents had written a tune for her called Amelia's Waltz. That sent me to the old Napster service, where I found a fiddle recording of the tune by Natalie McMaster. I took the tune to Chicago where I was on a 4-month assignment, bought the travel banjo from Janet Davis, and arranged the tune over about a week or two in the hotel room after work. This recording was made in the hotel room too. A couple of years later I was playing a festival. Natalie McMaster was on the bill too, and I got to play the tune with her backstage. I saw Amelia one more time and got to play it for her too.
ameliastiles Says:
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @7:56:11 PM
And I won't soon forget the night I wandered out of the Cantab and heard you and Matt Glazier playing it out on Mass Ave. I stumbled across this- how are you? I saw the Crooked Still crew this spring at a music festival- talked with Greg for a while- nice to see them doing so well!
Beautiful recording of the waltz..
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