🦋 A couple of new songs
John was over this evening -- we're going to play the open mic at Summit Unitarian Church on Saturday, looks like our set list will be "Louisville Burglar" and "California Stars" for our primary 2 songs, and "Prodigal Son" (which turns out to sound much better in E than in D) and "Meet Me in the Morning", if we get a chance to play more than 2 songs. We mostly went over stuff we have played before; the new songs we tried out: - "Somewhere East of West Berlin" (Stonewall Jackson) -- Cold War Country/Western.
- "The Growling Old Man and the Growling Old Woman" -- French Canadian fiddle tune; I've been working on this a fair amount the past few days, using my metronome technique. It sounded very nice.
- "Uncle Pen" -- I did not know this tune at all, it was kind of tough to catch the tune. But worth working on.
We also played "Jockey Full of Bourbon" in A minor (instead of E minor) -- I'm finally getting to work out a good fiddle part for that.
Someone who found my site by searching for "Louisville Burglar" sent me a link to this magnificent version of it, by John Specker: Grassroots Festival, 1996.
 (John reminds me, we also played Neil Young's "I am a Child", and "Ophelia" by The Band.)
posted evening of Thursday, December 10th, 2009
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