10.08.06

Bluegrass is dead, long live bluegrass

Posted in podcast - October 8th, 2006 at 3:10 pm by Cricket

Yes, the HCT girls have been absent for a while. I’d like to say it was something cool like we got on the bus with some band after a show and woke up stranded in East Texas, or perhaps we’ve been vacationing at Dolly Parton’s house. No, just the plague bringing us down. You can’t record a podcast or even type very well when you’re coughing all the time. Fortunately we’re both on the mend and ready to bring you a ton of awesome stuff, starting with podcast number five.

I know every time we do one of these I say hanging out with whomever we’re recording is the best time you can have and I mean it but this time I REALLY mean it. This time was more like going to a party than recording a show. So The ACs came over to record with us (are they called that because they’re so damn cool? I forgot to ask). The ACs are Beau Stapleton on guitar, tenor guitar and mandola, David Long on mandolin and mandola and Matt Combs on fiddle, banjo and guitar.

So in this podcast (right click and ’save as’ to download) I get everything I suspected about bluegrass and the community surrounding it pronounced true and Mimi learns about fiddle styles from around the US. Mostly we laugh a lot and maybe leave you wondering what the heck is going on. But even when we degenerate into bad jokes and giggling, the music is spectacular and worth a listen. As always, still on a learning curve here, so hopefully you can follow what’s going on (five people in a room is hard to capture on tape). While I’m thinking of it, if you’re interested in roots and traditional music and some of the stuff we talk about in this ‘cast, you might check out The Devil’s Box and The Old Time Herald.

In addition to beer drinking, too much laughing, and everything we learned about music from these boys, you can find the following tracks in this recording:

Little Car Graveyard (John Hartford)
Summer Leaves (David Long)
Drunken Presbyterian (John Hartford)
My Automobile (George Clinton)
If I Die Tomorrow (Mary Alice Lamb)
Passing Away (EC and Orna Ball)
Sailing on Dry Land (Ben Hartlage)

Keep an eye on these guys. I mean really, keep an eye, ’cause I can’t find my wallet since they left. Just kidding. We expect to be hearing a lot more from them, both individually and as a group.

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