I was at this show. Great show. If you never saw them the NBB has a great sound. I'm no bluegrass band expert but here's some random thoughts.
NBB is un-slick and in a good way. A wee bit laid back on the beat which I really liked. Blues-grass. The banjo player Alan O'Bryant is not your typical brash in your face first one out of the gate banjo player. He's got somewhat of a mellower tone and does not play on the extreme front of the beat. It was my first time at the Emelin; very small guessing like 200 seats? So small that I heard Mike's Gil chop more from the stage then from the two small front of house speakers. Mr. Taterbug played and sounded great. Did a Fiddler's Blues that was real fine. Opened with Garfield's closed with Honky Tonk. There was Hartford/Monroe's Riverman Blues along the way. Gospel Plow too. My non mandolin player buddy commented how little Mike's right hand traveled. Very controlled no wasted effort. Not that we don't know it already but the Tater's got that Monroe thing down and beyond. Pat Enright picks with a thumbpick and fingers. Solid. Had that vanilla extract thing going. Could not really pick the guitar out of the mix but if he wasn't in the recipe it just wouldn't taste right. Stuart Duncan. Amazing. Sweet double stops. Fluid as all get out. The band did a Tommy Jarrell song that I wish went on for a lot longer. He had that sound going. NBB keeps their tunes short; the sets tight and well paced though I did wish they stretched out a bit more on some of the tunes. The vocals were very impressive. The band does a great job of singing together and the sum was definitely much bigger then the parts. Got to chat with Tater briefly after the the show but I had to run out of there due to babysitting. Perry On Oct 15, 8:33 am, Jim Kendrick <[email protected]> wrote: > Showing great wisdom, to celebrate my 60th b'day my wife got us > tickets to hear NBB tonight. I'm looking forward to it, as I haven't > heard Mike live since the Mandolin Symposium several years ago in > California. > > I sure hope we get a good dose of Monroe! Big Spring? (hint, hint...) -- 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.
