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Playing Since: 1980
Experience Level: Purty Good
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Occupation: WASTEWATER LAB
Gender: Male
Age: 54
My Instruments:
I have a Strad copy from Grandpa. I also have a fiddle that was made for me by Deborah-Helen Viator in Eunice, LA, which is my "tuned-down" Cajun fiddle. My first fiddle (which I still have & is still my best) is one that I payed only $150 for in 1980. The tone is balanced all the way across, but sounds particularly rich in the bass. The story I like to tell about it is that Mike Seeger once offered to buy it off me.
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Favorite Bands/Musicians:
I like anybody that plays Old-time and Cajun. Favorites include Kenny Jackson of the Rhythm Rats, Double Decker String Band, Rafe Stefanini, Clyde Davenport, Tommy Jarrell, Charlie Bowman, Al Hopkins & His Bucklebusters (aka The Hillbillies), Melvin Wine, Ernie Carpenter and Chirps Smith.
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Created 6/23/2007
Last Visit 3/10/2010
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @5:40:19 PM
First, let me say that, as a fiddler and a purveyor of OT music, I LOVE Brad Leftwich. I have taken a number of workshops from him and the length and breadth of his knowledge is unparalleled. Now then, that having been said, I will also say that when one steps into a BL workshop, I know what you are going to get. A treatise on bowing. Which I can take some parts, but I leave many others. I don't really need mnemonics to help my bowing. I just replicate the sound I hear somehow. But today I came to realize just how deeply he has touched my soul. I was listening to Kirk Sutphin play a tune. I think it was "Don't Drink Nothing But Corn", and as I was listening...I heard "it": I heard "Sail away ladies, sail away, Sail away ladies sail awayyy..." over and over and over (ya'll who've taken classes with him will know what I speak of).................
Well I did say there will be a quiz. And here it is: I heard Ernie Carpenter play a tune in my ipod (I wonder if he saw Kirk in there) and Ernie said what his favorite tune was. In fact, he said it's the favorite tune of a lot of people who know it. I agree, because I learned the tune from him, and I love it! For no points but endless prestige, can you name that tune? Refer back to this space for clues if nobody gets it right away.
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