Jeff, Nah, I didn't figure out Andy's solo. I wrote down a few variations off the original fiddle version. That's where I'm living. It's on the "files" section if you care. Taterbug
On Mar 31, 2:59 pm, "Alexander, Jeffrey" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Big Tater, are you still passing around the lines you wrote down > from Andy Statman's Fiddlers Blues? > If so, I would to get in on that action. > > Jeff > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mistertaterbug > Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 11:33 > To: Taterbugmando > Subject: Andy Statman strikes again... > > Here's a link to a tune that I've been passing around lately. I first > heard Ralph Blizzard tear through this about 15 years ago and I > thought then that if Monroe had heard this he'd have played it. The > tune comes from Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, not to be confused with Arthur > "Guitar Boogie" Smith, the writer of "Dueling Banjos". Our good > samaritan Val Mindel sent me a copy of Mr. Smith's track and I was > tickled pink to get it. Finally, I can learn this little gem. So, I > wrote out a few lines of it and sent it around. Ironically, there is a > Monroe tune by the same name, but an entirely different tune in a > different key with a different feel and having no resemblance to > Smith's tune. I sent out a track of Jimmy Campbell playing a twin > fiddle version of Monroe's tune accompanied by tab for Smith's tune. > Duh... > > The ingenius and confused recipient who shall remain unnamed > (...writes vampire books...) sent me an email saying that he couldn't > make 'hide nor hair' out of it until he found this video by the > illustrious Andy Statman. Now all is better, he says. Here's the > link... > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Mv8lsG-fA > > I must say, my brain is spattered all over the room. Where in the > world would Andy pick this tune up? In the depths of my ignorance I do > not understand. To me, this tune is not even well-known in current > oldtime circles, save possibly by the more "mature" participants. Even > then, it would seem to me that a person would have to be interested in > Arthur Smith and digging into his tunes to even find this one. Am I > just so far out of touch that I don't get it? > > I am going to have to call Andy and find out for myself. > > Stunned in Tennessee --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
