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Don Borchelt |
Posted by Don Borchelt
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Size: 3,029kb, uploaded 6/3/2012 7:16:27 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This recording was made in my living room in 1998; we called our trio Wry Whiskey. I'm picking banjo and singing, such as it is. The guitar player was Brian Clancey, who now plays in a duet with fiddler Robin Warren as Spirit Fiddle. Brian is the best back-up guitar player I ever heard, bar none. Here he is fingerpicking; we experimented a lot with the mixing together of finger style banjo and guitar. Tom Speth was the bass player; his knees have given out, and so he doesn't play much music anymore, but we've gone fishing together a few times over the last several years, which is almost as much fun.
6 comments on “Sitting on Top of the World with Wry Whiskey”
jimh269b Says:
Sunday, June 3, 2012 @7:25:31 AM
thats the best pickin i ever heard don,
MrHoney Says:
Sunday, June 3, 2012 @12:02:31 PM
Love that loose relaxed interplay between all musicians. That's a great version, how many songs came out of that recording session? Would love to hear more of it.
Byron
rickhayes Says:
Sunday, June 3, 2012 @2:36:15 PM
Great stuff.
SCclawman Says:
Monday, June 4, 2012 @6:50:31 AM
Hey Don, That's great. You are an incredible picker and I've missed hearing you upload new things to the hangout. Glad to have something new to listen to. I also enjoyed reading the write up in the post about Doc Watson. Good stuff!!
JanetB Says:
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 @5:14:40 AM
Agree with the above. I like the musical interpretation here of the lyrics.
VancePants Says:
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 @1:41:48 PM
Smooth as a Tennessee bourbon whiskey... goes down just as easy... mellow n' warm.
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