The Most Explosive Blues Violin Solo On Film - 'In the Cluster Blues' Mark O'Connor
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- Опубликовано: 19 мар 2012
- Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing Trio on "Mountain Stage"
'In the Cluster Blues' written by Mark O'Connor
FZ: Hearing you play the blues on the violin seems so natural. How long have you been exploring the blues and what do you do or how do you accomplish that sound on the violin?
MOC: Since I was a kid, 11 years-old. I played the blues all the time on my fiddle, and older folks would say, "how is that boy playing the blues! I'll be darned!" The blues though is what I heard, or more to the point, what I felt. It spoke to how hard a time I had dealing with stuff. It felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders. I am quite serious given my family situation - raging alcoholic/abusive father, a dying mother and severe bullying at school. It was only my music that saved me my life, I can promise you that.
FZ: In this version of "In the Cluster Blues" you really go for it with the
wails, screams, struggles...a lot of intensity!! Where do you find that inspiration, your childhood? Did you have to dig deep, and/or is there an experience you think about to create this kind of expression?
MOC: Well there is the childhood, which parts of it I will never escape completely. But some other very painful things have developed since then. The name of the tune... I named it "in the cluster." That is specific. Have you ever heard of cluster migraine? I have a chronic case, a curse really. The head pain comes in "clusters" and during those times, it is relentless pain. Look it up! Dubbed the suicide headache! I pray that no one experiences these. My ability to play this way like I do, is channeling the pain that I have and forcing it from myself. The screams, the wails. And then the loneliness of the melody at the end when the pain finally subsides. The blues is my autobiography and salvation. Overcoming great odds to make it and survive. Just to make music and please the others around me you know. That is what I was meant to do, and I needed that in my life.
Hot Swing Trio (2004)
Mark O'Connor - Violin
Frank Vignola - Guitar
Jon Burr - Bass
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"Since I was a kid, 11 years-old. I played the blues all the time on my fiddle, and older folks would say, "how is that boy playing the blues! I'll be darned!""
how bout that bow in a bag . . .
This was an eye-opener. Wonderful stuff!
Give us instruments and we will play what is in us to play. ;)
SugahShy
Amen!
Mark O'Connor You are a god of music walking amongst mere mortal men. I bow to you, sir! We're not worthy!
The beauty of the blues is that you can play it as simple or complicated as you want.
100% I can play a simple 12 bar progression on my keyboard and then go into a jazz improvisation and go back again without straying too far from the original melody. Best genre ever!!
Your soul brought ypu here.
Mark's fiddle sounds like the heart-cries from a tormented soul who cannot voice the pain felt within. He's got soul!
All three of these guys are real masters of their instruments
Mark is one of the very best musicians alive today...………...
I don't say this often... I'm a musician of some 50 years... and this is some of the finest musicianship I've heard in a very long time. All three of them. Simply superb.
Very nice to see very olde fiddle and doublebass instruments being played.
Great gig 🎶🎻🎶🎻🎶🎻🎶🎻🎶
It's not just Mark's playing that I love. Or that our childhoods were very similar. Or that I, too, used to suffer with migraines . . . I love his inclusiveness and how he spreads the Love around. Always showcasing other players, his wife (Maggie) - and including other folks' kids with the method for learning and playing he developed Not to mention documenting and journaling it all so that it becomes a part of Music History - a legacy for future generations of players And he's not a toad - he's a nice guy - with a sense of humour. I am just tickled by him (like an older sister) - and his playing and the endeavours I'm aware of - bring me an enormous sense of Joy.
A Life well-lived - is the best "revenge" for those early years . . .
When you’re playin’ the blues, you still call it the fiddle!!!
Frank Vignola - one of the true great guitarists of our time! Awesome!
Around the time this was filmed, I saw MO'C's Hot Swing Trio play every night at the Iridium jazz club in NYC for a full week. Special guests included Chris Thile, Rushad Eggleston, and Jane Monheit. The sets were unreal! No two performances of "In the Cluster Blues" were alike; every violin solo was as fierce and inventive as this one. Mark's a genius; there's no other word for it!
Wait THAT Rushad Eggleston? Chords on a cello while wearing nothing but a fairy hat Rushed Eggleston?
Feel that in my soul. Beautiful.
Probably one of the best performances I've ever seen. Tears of joy.
This is as close to perfection as we're likely to ever hear.
A shoutout fro Frank Vignola on the guitar, another genius on his instrument.
I really didn't enjoy his performance tbh. I didn't like that guitar solo at all around 3 minutes in
This is jaw-dropping virtuosity from all three.
This, children, is what you call TRUE art.
All I can add is, " Wow.....Wow".... an absolutely incredible trio performing an amazing piece of music. I can listen to this all day long.
The Devil may have gone down to Georgia, but when he saw this, he decided to just stay out of the way!
I am going back to my room to practice.
Daniel Trickey you better
the beauty of youtube is when you think you're really doing it on another level there's these monsters to politely explain that in fact you are not lol
Daniel Trickey better get your 40 hours a day in.
One of the the best musicians on the planet! A genius’ genius.
I've never heard the blues on guitar like that. Wow. I play guitar and wow. The violin is so simply beautiful.
i play both, and both for a while, and i've never heard the blues so differently played on the guitar. had a weird classical touch and a jazzy vibe
That's Frank Vignola, a great jazz guitarist.
You need to listen again to Lucille! The guitar.
That violin was totally abused, and it loved every second of it! Amazingly spectacular job to all three of you!
Blues on a classical way. So good!
Now there's a man truly possessed by the music.
All three are great musicians. The violin solo is an explosion of dramatic blues beauty!
It's not very often that musically, I get a "What the heck have I been missing out on moment", But this was one of those times indeed! I swear I thought you were gonna saw that fiddle in half! :) Amazing! Thank you, just for being you.
It just never ever, ever, gets old! Lord have mercy! In the deep south there's a saying which applies here, Mark just puts his foot in it!!
almost incomprehensible this mans talent
You can always tell when those who have dedicated their entire lives and beings to absolutely perfect what they do best: make instruments sound as they did on this performance. Been following Mr. O' Conner since first seeing Strength in Numbers on Austin City Limits over 20 years ago. Pure Magic! God, how envious I am of them; Larry King always said "Talent will out." He was 100% correct. The quality always comes to a fore ans makes itself known. Thank you for sharing. Bless.
That stand up bass is da' boss! The fiddle sounds so lonesome. He can make it cry. How cool is that?
Good god, man! That solo is unspeakable! You just blew the blues dictionary out the door! You laid down an encyclopedia of blues language never before heard on a violin! Incredible.....
This should have at least 10 million views by now. Mark O'Connor - you are a bloody legend. Great stuff!
Man being a blues guitar player I never really thought that the blues wouldn’t sound so great on violin. Boy was I really wrong. This dude sounds amazing!!!
Yeah it can sound really good, and also you can hook it up to a guitar amp and do a sort of "pretend" guitar solo with some overdrive. It acts like a guitar that's being bowed rather than plucked.
I niece God gives every one their gifts and talents. Some get an extra dose of a gift to cope with trauma of pain. He found a Saving Grace, in music to escape the inner turmoil and the outer chaos. Listen to these cats make some sultry music.
oh wow just the way how those strings resonate with one another is just beautiful
What can I say? A sterling performance by three of the most fantastic musicians I have ever heard. Wonderful!
The best!
Three great musicians here and they don't get better. Amazing is the word.
I love the Blues and I love this performance. It makes me feel as If I'm walking down a dusty road in my native North Carolina and I'm swaying from side to side.
It’s wonderful when three great musicians with a lot of humor find together like here. Wow.
Music for the soul, thanks for all you do Mark.
Totally mind blowing blues from a master!!!.
Totally Killed It!!! You can make that fiddle squeal!!! Best I've heard!!! Ever!
My God,I've only been you tubing for about 6months now and have been so impressed and grateful for finding all these gems after all these years
It all makes perfect sense once you read his explanation - I did not know this story of his life and childhood. The intensity of emotion that pours from him during this can only come from true feeling - it can not be faked or performed as "showmanship". Thank you Mark for being so open and honest with your fans and thank you for sharing your gifts with us.
SMILES and Tears of JOY!!! Dang that's AWESOME!!!!
Thank you for all the wonderful music!!
Awesome! A great legend O'Connor.
bravi bravi bravi!!!
Simply WOW!!! Thanks Mark and Band
Gorgeous!
Beyond words... been a fan for since forever!
wonderful blues
beautiful, now part of my morning mix.
Yeah it's good all right. There is so much to take in here.
i've been listening to this since i picked up a guitar, 10 years ago. this piece of joyful blues still is on my side
Your. Music is so precious. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
Mark O'Connor plays violin with his bow, and suddenly turns it into a sword to break the chains like a true artist, still keeping the act like a pro.
I saw Mr. O'Connor some years back in Santa Fe, NM.
I play a 5-string viola…or maybe…
if Mark play the violin then I just hold my viola under my chin…"a wishing" I could learn to play, Lordy that man excites the air inside his fiddle. ℗.
At 4:57 Mark's fiddle sounds like Bessie Smith....totally off the chain! Three masters at work!
Mastery!
Incredible playing by one of my heroes, Mark O'Connor. Love Frank Vignola on guitar, too- and the bassist- sorry I don't recognize. But I've seen Mark and Frank both, just not together, and this is a treat!
With passion. Feeling. The way it is supposed to be. This man is a jem
Three divine musicians!!!
Wow! Blown away! completely beautiful!
One of my other favorite solo's out there!! Thanks again Mark!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful talent with all of us.
Bravo !!
Just plain talent. Thanks for posting.
Beautiful!
Bravo Mark!
Bravi tutti!
put a big smile on my face ... brilliant stuff ... cheers
Genius
I had the opportunity to interview him..1983?....a genius talent...and he embarrassed me so much..I went to Salt Lake and became the most hated luthier multi instrumentalist in Kanada..but Mark is a landmark in musician creators..thank GOD.
Incredible! Thank you so much for recording and sharing this!!!
A master!
This is what you call master craft soul touching music.
Great sounding trio.
Oh MY. This is quite outstanding.
It was a privilege to watch and listen to this video.
I was very fortunate to watch and hear Mark O'Connor (Fiddle), Tony Rice (Flatpicking the Martin Guitar) , Bella Fleck (on the 5-string Banjo) , "The" Jerry Douglas (on the Dobro), and Sam Bush on the Mandolin). They played at a Bluegrass festival (Horsepens 40) back when they first got together. The only way to describe these guys is "Magic".....
I was fortunate to have seen ( and heard ) Bella Fleck playing with The Georgia Symphony a few years back. What a masterful performance that was !!
I can feel the message in the music. Wish I could produce tunes that were from the depths of the human soul like this.
Wow! Hottest fiddle I ever heard!
Enough to bring the Devil to tears for what could have been but never was!
Majical Mark O,connor ---- such creative melody in everything he does.
WOW! Just WOW. Love it!!!
Love it Thank you
Tan solo el inicio te indica lo bella que es esta melodía 💚💚😄
Simply Magic.
You gotta be kiddin' me! That was one of the most amazing things i've ever heard!
This is so rich and fluid, just gotta love it.
Thank you
Love this!
Superb O'Connor as always!!!!!!!!!!
Bad ass ensemble!!!!
fantastic!!!
Wonderful....absolutely wonderful.
So good! Mark makes me emote like I do with stephane grapelli's shredding... also, Jon Burr's tone is the best
Gentlemen, That was awesome
BAH GAWD