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Posted by deleuran
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- Play count: 459
Size: 2,404kb, uploaded 3/17/2008 4:16:54 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Other
This is for you, fiddlerfaddler. It is my first attempt at recording anything with the fiddle, and I wouldn't have dared, if I couldn't hide a bit behind the mandolin and the guitar. Someday I will upload something with the banjo :-) I have recorded it on four tracks. Guitar, song, mandolin and fiddle. It probably would have been better if I had tried it out 20 times, but I decided on first take on all four tracks. I mean, it IS old-time, it IS folk music, and I guess that the old man in the very funny lyrics didn't play any better sitting in under his leaking roof :-) So here it is with all the faults and errors.
3 comments on “Arkansas Traveller”
FiddlerFaddler Says:
Monday, March 17, 2008 @11:05:03 PM
Thanks for the dedication! That was great, even for a single take on each track. I enjoyed it greatly. The mandolin sounds great in the lead, and it was fun when all the instruments wind it down together.
Hiding an instrument with which you are not comfortable behind others is a great technique; I'd use that technique with my band, but I've been playing bass for the band, so I have nothing to hide. Here at the Banjo Hangout I posted a couple of Christmas tunes because the rehearsals were banjo heavy. For the actual Christmas party I played my faddle (viola), but I forgot to bring my digital recorder -- bummer!
deleuran Says:
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 @6:35:08 AM
Hi fiddlerfaddler. I found this about the song: "The play "The Arkansas Traveler" was a favorite attraction in Salem, Ohio, in the 1850's. It tells of a travel's experience with an Arkansas squatter whom he finds sitting in his cabin playing away at a tune which he has heard for the first time on a trip to New Orleans. The entire play revolves around this tune and the squatter's effort to remember the ending of it." Thank you for your words. Jesper
Tuneager Says:
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 @3:18:48 AM
I don't hear that fiddle hiding, it mixes right in perfectly and certainly sounds better than if I tried to scratch my way bowing, never could get the hang of that instrument. After hearing this tune a thousand times, this is the first time I've ever heard it with lyrics, so thanks! Your voice is perfect for this old-time material.
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