Posted in hammered dulcimer, original music, traditional music, tagged Budapest, Butch and Christie, dulcimer, Hungary on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
We just received word that the video of our first concert in Budapest has been posted! Once you’re on the page, use the small black scrollbar to scroll down, and click on the line that has my name on it… and then wait a while… It took quite a long time for the video to [...]
Posted in hammered dulcimer, improvisation, traditional music, tagged arkansas traveler, dulcimer, old time, Rayna Gellert, victrola on February 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Another record we listened to at my Victrola party was Arkansas Traveler (as a fox trot)! It’s been one of my favorite old time tunes ever since I heard Rayna Gellert’s rendition. Most people think of Looney Toons or “Picking up my baby bumble bee” when they hear this tune, but I think [...]
Posted in hammered dulcimer, improvisation, tagged dulcimer, no strings attached on February 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Going a bit out of chronological order here, and stepping back to Saturday night, 2/9/2008. This was one of the hot numbers in the No Strings Attached set, where they invited up Guy George, Karen Mueller, and Butch Ross for a little “Lady Be Good.” That’s Wes Chappell on mandolin, Randy Marchany on [...]
Posted in traditional music, tagged dulcimer, fiddle, old time, texas on February 9, 2008 | No Comments »
This is a video of Samantha Oberkfell (known for her hammered dulcimer prowess, and quite the fiddler as well!) and three of the four famous Wrights of Kenard, Texas. The missing Wright is Lloyd Wright, who’s in my mountain dulcimer top 10. We stayed up late at the Super 8 playing all kinds [...]
Posted in hammered dulcimer, traditional music, tagged dulcimer, fiddle, Fly Around, mandolin, old time, pub, session on February 6, 2008 | No Comments »
In October, 2006, Butch and I had yet another chance (lucky us!) to spend a little time in England. One night, our dear friends Christine and Pete drove us out into the middle of nowhere for a good ol’ American old time music session. The venue was a pub called the Cock and [...]
Posted in hammered dulcimer, traditional music, tagged Bowling Green Kentucky, Butch and Christie, dulcimer, guitar, Little Billy Wilson, Niedlov's on February 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I hestitated to post this one, because it’s farrrrr from perfect. This is a recording of Butch and I capturing Little Billy Wilson for the first time. You can hear how he was just riffin’ on something on his guitar, and I kinda bumbled in with some dulcimer notes.. And somewhere in [...]
Posted in hammered dulcimer, improvisation, traditional music, voice, tagged Amazing grace, dulcimer, R.L. Tack on December 28, 2007 | No Comments »
This is another recording made at my home at the Red Abbey in Cork City. I think it was recorded on the R.L. Tack dulcimer I brought home from Winfield in 2003. Such a beautiful sound, and I loved it a lot, but I regrettably sold it for rent money… Someday I hope [...]
