Brian, i just listened to "Jerusalem Ridge", your mando playin sounds real good. Bob Black played in our town last year & i asked the promoter to ask if i could get up & pick one with the band. He said sure & it ended up i got to play the whole show with him wich was a real buzz. When we played a tune from that record " Monroes Hornpipe " i happened to think " wow, this is the guy that recorded it with Bill Monroe "& i got nervous & kinda lost my place. Bob was real nice about it though, he's a nice guy & one of my favorite banjo pickers.
On Nov 8, 10:23 pm, Brian Ray <dassp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I survived the two shows I had this weekend with the band that > has since become known as the "Kenny Baker Tribute Band". For the > folks that don't know, this ensemble was concocted by various Sconnie > (that's Wisconsin) boys (and one Iowan) to play the entire "Kenny > Baker Plays Bill Monroe" record at a few shows. The band includes two > Bluegrass Boys, including Bob Black (the banjo player on the original > record) and Mark Hembree (Wisconsin's lone Bluegrass Boy). It was the > brainchild of fiddler Paul Keinitz and also includes myself on mando > and guitar player John Fabke. > > Well, I'm posting this kind of in answer to a few of the recent topics > on the group. As I've been sweating and working on learning the album, > I can attest that my practice time for the last few weeks has been > listening to, and playing along with, this record and not much else. I > can also say, that after only two shows, I'm totally exhausted but had > as much fun as should be legal. Playing with these boys was a pleasure > and an honor. > > (To steal Hembree's favorite saying) "Anyway", here are a few tunes > for last night's show at the Richland Center City Auditorium in > Richland Center, WI. A couple hundred nice folks showed up to see us > and were one of the nicer audiences I've had the pleasure to play for. > > http://dasspunk.com/music/kenny.tribute/ > > Brian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
