Much as I do actually prefer to buy music, I downloaded it. I tried to buy the Rounder ed haley cds, but was frustrated. I found it all in a fiddler compilation on bittorrent and got the wonderful results. Hope this helps
2010/6/18, Mark Halpin <tomas...@yahoo.com>: > Twenty bucks! It was sixty on Amazon... and that was just for one of > the albums!! > > Thats why i had to be happy with listening to the thirty second sound > clips. > > Yeah, thats what i discovered aswell with the irish fiddle tunes, the > same ones were played every week and the more familiar you are with > them the more you could add to the overall sound. At first i would try > to do basic rhythym but just there was usually a clod of rhythym > guitars chording so i needed to find some space thats when i found > that voicing the melody could fit in well with the general carry on > and done well it, which wasnt often, it does give a nice spur to the > fiddle/melody playing. > > Strange as it might be for some of youse here, its the Tater's > elaboration of Mrs. Haley's style that actually first caught my ear, > its only later through gaining familiarity with his other work that i > am gaining a stronger appreciation for Monroe elements in his playing > and through them Mr. Monroe's playing itself. > > On Jun 18, 6:32 pm, erik berry <eberr...@gmail.com> wrote: > After >> that experiment, I've tried to to it a little more often. It fills out >> the vocals in a way that's hard to explain if you're not paying >> attention to the mandolin. What I also found is you have to know the >> songs quite well (like anthing else). If you don't know the vocals, >> you can't "fake" the vocal rhythm. >> >> My only experience with Mrs. Haley's playing, though, is the tater >> interview and listening to the samples of a Ed Haley reissue at a >> record store until I got asked "you gonna buy that?" Twenty bucks, had >> to say no, unfortuneately. >> >> erik >> >> On Jun 18, 8:28 am, Mark Halpin <tomas...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> > Some of my favorite Tater ventures have to be on 'The Speed of the Old >> > Long Bow' and t'other John Hartford old-time-fiddler-tribute albums... >> > i dont dance much but i knows they do make for fine jogging musics. >> >> > From one of the old Co-mando interviews Mr. Tate tells that John >> > Hartford was looking for something along the lines of what Ela Haley >> > was doing on mandolin. Hers how its put in the interview >> >> > 'Haley's wife Ela played taterbug (or roundback for you yanks) >> > mandolin on the recordings. She played simple chords with a heavy- >> > handed rhythm and that's what John said he really wanted me to do. I >> > thought it was a very primitive way to play mandolin until I started >> > to notice Ela seemed to be playing the melody line, but with chords. >> > In other words, her right hand played the melody, her left played >> > chords. It's sort of the same thing tap dancers do I guess.' >> >> > Now, given that those Ed Haley recordings seem to be both rare and >> > pricey i have'nt much of chance to hear what exactly is going on with >> > the original recordings, i'm actually just going through the some mp3 >> > samples at the moment and i'm beginning to hear the sound i associate >> > from the Hartford albums. >> >> > Now i'm wondering if anyone here, not just Mr Taterbug though it'd be >> > interesting to hear his views, have paid much attention to Ela Haley's >> > playing or have tried to adapt it into their own playing? >> >> > If so, what attracts you to that style of playing, any observations >> > about it, in particular i'd wonder how do you think it sits with the >> > Monroe style?- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Taterbugmando" group. > To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. > > -- Enviado desde mi dispositivo móvil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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.
