WYSO 91.3 performance
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 | Uncategorized
Played some music with friends last Saturday night. June 19th. Had a great time, Wind Over Texas the title track from my cd got played, then we performed live banjo, 2 guitars, and harmonica. I’m typically not playing much bluegrass these days. A few years ago I played it a lot with “the Nano Mountain Boys”, but I’ve been writing songs and playing jazz more often than not these days. So, the Midnight Ramble was a nice diversion. WYSO in Yellow Springs hosted the show with Tom Duffey as dj. We had Roscoe Wray playing harmonica, singing songs, and telling funny stories. Roscoe was a fantastic fiddle player up until a stroke robbed him of the use of his right arm, making it impossible to bow, so he’s taken up the harmonica, and is doing quite well with it so far.
Taylor Farley (the elder), and his son Taylor Farley Jr. were performing as well, the elder Farley on banjo, and the younger on rhythm guitar. Some fine banjo playing and great guitar work in those two.
I played rhythm and lead guitar, and sang a few tunes too. Overall it seems like we did well, but I’ll have to listen to the recording to know for sure, it’s hard to know what it really sounds like from the recording booth of a radio station, but we had some moments that felt really good, and we had a blast. Basically, it was just a lot of fun.
Looks like a recording may be in the works with some of my songs and a few standard folk/bluegrass numbers soon, I really enjoyed the sound of the banjo and guitars together with a bit of harmonica. I’ll add acoustic bass and it should sound fine.
I performed my own arrangement of “House of the Rising Sun” (fingerstyle guitar), we also played “Keep Old Glory New”, “Once It Felt Right”, “Gamecock Blues”, and “Little Suzie”. All my tunes, then mixed in some bluegrass standards like “Wayfaring Stranger”, “The Theme”, and some of Taylor’s tunes (the elder Farley).
We may perform again for a show in Kentucky next month but I’ll have to find out the date.
The Miserable Howling Dogs will be at the Greene in Kettering/Beavercreek on August 29th. Bringing our brand of blues, jazz, and classic rock as well as some original stuff too.
Hope to see ya somewhere out there checking out the music.
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