Listening to this after coming home from playing for fourth-graders at the national historical site of Nicodemus, Ksnsas, last all-black settlement west of the Mississippi. The kids learn how former slaves from Kentucky & Tennessee came to 'the promised land' of Kansas, walking the last 30miles from the railroad station at Ellis, KS. We add a banjo history presentation to the fun.
DOES IT GET ANY BETTER? NO! I gave up frailing decades ago because nobody on the planet was playing this stuff. Now it seems like everybody on the planet is frailing. What a great sound.
@@MrLaserbob Similar enough to seem interchangeable to me. In fact the term" clawhammer" is falling out of favor in some quarters due to racist associations.
I had the pleasure and honor to jam with Bruce in Boston back in the 1990's. What a great thing that was for me, just learning how to play the mandolin!
jarchitect they're dance tunes, past through generations. Btw, pay attention to the rhythms. I think everybody's enjoying the melody and rhythm. Ive sat around a campfire playing western country for a good hour at least, give it a try. Drink some whiskey, or whatever ;). Im not judgemental, being judgemental makes jamming suck.
Fiddle is the lead instrument in old time music. This isn't bluegrass where you trade breaks. This is dance music and the fiddle lead throughout is the style of old time. It isn't about taking breaks. The other instruments are right there to fill out the sound.
Listening to this after coming home from playing for fourth-graders at the national historical site of Nicodemus, Ksnsas, last all-black settlement west of the Mississippi. The kids learn how former slaves from Kentucky & Tennessee came to 'the promised land' of Kansas, walking the last 30miles from the railroad station at Ellis, KS. We add a banjo history presentation to the fun.
"Sounds like music to me." Wonderful.
Favourite tune! We used to play it in our weekly Oldtime jam in Stockholm with Rachel Eddy as our steady ground. I played bass. It ended 2015.
DOES IT GET ANY BETTER? NO! I gave up frailing decades ago because nobody on the planet was playing this stuff. Now it seems like everybody on the planet is frailing. What a great sound.
roal ik You have your own voice man. Frail if you want, if no one listens it doesn't matter. All that matters is you spoke.
_ MyM4 _ Good word. What is even gooder is that your reply took me back to this vid so that I could hear that song again :)
Well I'm not a banjer player - but I thought that this was clawhammer (not frailing?)
@@MrLaserbob Same thing, different name... frailin'/ clawhammer. Po-ta-to/ po-tah-toe. It's good no matter how you say it.
@@MrLaserbob Similar enough to seem interchangeable to me. In fact the term" clawhammer" is falling out of favor in some quarters due to racist associations.
Love that tune .Just a great trio playing it.
Love how Allison keeps the banjo relevant by double thumbing, it keeps her from being drown out by the fiddle. Everyone is so skilled, cheers!
Liked this RUclips video and have never heard John Reischman play with Bruce Molsky and Allison de Groot before. But I heard of them before.
I had the pleasure and honor to jam with Bruce in Boston back in the 1990's. What a great thing that was for me, just learning how to play the mandolin!
Beautiful, of course!
Love this so much
One of my favorites, too.
Dang. Love this.
Excellent!!!
Nice sound!
There was a microphone set up just there in the woods? I mean, what are the odds on that? Amazing!
There's a currant bush just off camera - - so they had power for the microphone!
And two camera angles no less ~
OMG, the snark!
At its finest.
Outstanding.btw Trenton ga.
I didn't know John Malkovich was such a great fiddle player!
Puppets and fiddles. Everybody knows that.
You ass, he's not John Malkovich! That lookee-like shit, it's so stupid.
Nice! How equipment did you use to record this?
obviously, the squirrels and chipmunks had some sort of singing session earlier and their manager set up that mic.....
what equipment...
Nice
Lovely. But how did they avoid insects that must have been buzzing around?
Avoid, no. Ignore.
The look she gives him at 2:23 !!
Yeah, she smiled when he got jiggy with it.
You guys need a smoke machine.
I'm sorry, but old time fiddlers think its all about them...they don't trade breaks. -Jim
It's one of the things that distinguish Old Time. Playing the melody, playing it straight, and finding a groove together.
jarchitect they're dance tunes, past through generations. Btw, pay attention to the rhythms. I think everybody's enjoying the melody and rhythm. Ive sat around a campfire playing western country for a good hour at least, give it a try. Drink some whiskey, or whatever ;). Im not judgemental, being judgemental makes jamming suck.
Fiddle is the lead instrument in old time music. This isn't bluegrass where you trade breaks. This is dance music and the fiddle lead throughout is the style of old time. It isn't about taking breaks. The other instruments are right there to fill out the sound.
Inded it is the old-time way, and even then Bruce definitely did give John Reischman a break.
jarchitect nah, it’s actually about finding a groove together.