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Song List: 1. Crafton Blues, 2. Durang's Hornpipe, 3. Sally Johnson, 4. Wednesday Night Waltz, 5. Wagonner, 6. Black and White Rag, 7. Apple Blossoms, 8. Morningstar Waltz, 9. Saratoga Hornpipe, 10. Allentown Polka, 11. Grey Eagle, 12. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down.
We never intended
to form a "family band", we just sort of grew one. It
started thirteen years ago when Noel was four. He begged me to
get him a fiddle. A year later, Sarah was after Dad to learn to
play the guitar. Six years after that, Erick, who wanted nothing
to do with either instrument, was handed a bass by a friend of
ours, and he fell in love with it. The longer version of each
of these stories is much more interesting by the way. Although
we often played together, we did not truly perform together as
a band until about three years ago. Prior to then, the adults
had their own band and the kids had theirs. They called themselves
"I.D. Required". The short version of the rest of the
story is that the kids began to sit in with the adult band and
then to fill in for unavailable adults. Eventually, I did not
need to go outside my own family to find musicians. Which is the
way it should be. There is nothing better than looking across
the stage and seeing all of them up there with me. Thanks go to
John Randall and my husband Andy for being squirrely (is that
a word?) enough to land on a band name for us that just wouldn't
go away - "The Whole Nine Yards". It is appropriate,
since when you get me, you get all of us. Anyway, here we all
are.
We tried to create more of a live feel with the mix of this CD, so the rhythm section is a little louder than you will find on most others. Besides, they are my family and I wanted them heard too. I hope you like it. Pay particular attention to "Apple Blossoms". Noel is the fiddler, not me. I got to sit that one out. There is such a thing as a "rest" in music you know!
Chris Daring - Fiddle on all songs except Apple Blossoms. Guitar on Grey Eagle.
Noel Daring - Fiddle on Apple Blossoms. Tenor guitar on all other songs.
Andy Daring - Guitar on all songs.
Sarah Daring - Guitar on all songs. Erick Daring - Bass on all songs.
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1988 Sessions with The Nashville Superpickers - Chris Daring
on fiddle, Dale Morris on Fiddle, Henry Stryzlecki on bass, Lloyd Green on
steel guitar
and dobro, Pig Robbins on Piano, Jack Solomon on Guitar, and Roy Yeager on
drums, Pat Holt as engineer.
1992 vocal sessions - Chris Daring on fiddle and vocals, Mike Chapman on
bass, Dean Hall on lead guitar, Leo Jackson on rhythm guitar, Ron Oats on
piano, Terry Feller on drums, Mike Deuchette on steel guitar, Pat Holt as
engineer and producer.
I don’t recall all the musicians on the last three songs. Those I do
are: Andy
Daring, rhythm guitar for all three; Charley Schultz, drums on Summertime;
Karl Klutz, lead guitar on Milk Cow Blues and Devil’s Gonna Get You.
This CD is a combination of two Nashville studio sessions and three songs I did in Denver with different bands. The Nashville sessions were done in 1988 and 1992. The “88” session consisted of ten instrumentals, with The Nashville Superpickers providing backup. These are the same musicians who recorded with Chet Atkins under that name. The “92” sessions consisted of three vocal songs. Musicians, mostly from Garth Brooks’ studio band, are performing with me.
1. Hottest Ex in Texas, 2. Brilliancy, 3. Queen of the West, 4. Miller’s
Reel, 5. Bandera
6. 50 Years Ago. 7. Warm Fire Burning, 8. Dardanella, 9. La Golondrina,
10. Hummingbird Reel, 11. Play Fiddle Play, 12. Canebrake, 13. Jump Right
In,
14. Devil’s Gonna Get You, 15. Milk Cow Blues, 16. Summertime
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A 234 page book on rhythm guitar playing. The fourth edition contains chord charts (and some alternative charts) for 268 songs. It also contains discussion and examples of walking bass lines used by swing guitar players. Each individual chord chart is in large type so it can be seen at a distance while you are playing.
The idea for this type of collection of chord charts began a number of years ago when I became exposed to the wide variety of songs played by participants in the National Old Time Fiddlers' Contest in Weiser, Idaho. At that time, as a budding rhythm guitar player, I found myself immensely confused by the equally wide variety of chord progressions played for a given song by the fiddler's accompanists. My confusion was compounded because the strange progressions they used in songs familiar to me, appeared only remotely related to the simple structures I already knew. To make matters worse, many guitar players and fiddlers from whom I sought help, approached an individual song differently from their colleagues while proclaiming their progression was the only right way of doing it.
As an example, I had learned to play Billy in the Lowground as a two part tune:
C C Am Am
C C Am G/C
C C F F
C C Am G/C
While accompanying former National Champion, Dale Morris at a jam session in February of 1987, he suggested we play Billy in the Lowground. Just before we started he said, "Now don't go putting that A minor in there. The song never had an A minor in there, it doesn't belong there, so don't put it in there". Dale went on to explain that Eck Robertson had not used the A minor and it was from him that Dale had gotten the song. So I played the song:
C C F F
C C F G/C
All went well and he seemed happy with the result.
A month later I had occassion to accompany Dale's younger brother, Terry Morris at another jam session. Like Dale, he suggested we play Billy in the Lowground but prefaced the song by telling me, "Now don't go putting that F chord in there". I responded by relating what his older brother had recently told me and asked if that meant I should play the song with all C chords except for the quick G at the end of each part. After some laughter and a certain amount of head shaking he told me to go ahead and put the A minor in the song. So I played the song:
C C Am Am
C C Am G/C
That summer, while in Weiser, I was told by a number of guitar players that I should be going to the G chord earlier in the song than I was, and to play the song:
C C Am Am
C C Am/G G/C
It also became apparent that summer, that some of the guitar players used an F chord in the song while others did not.
A few years later, I related my Billy in the Lowground story to former National Champion, Dick Barrett. He proceeded to tell me that when he first became involved with this music, Major Franklin told him to play the song with only "A" minor chords. Dick did say that Major also indicated there were better ways of playing the song but in a pinch straight "A" minor chords would work.
In any case, I relate all of this to you as a means of suggesting that there are many ways of playing an individual song; all of which are dependent upon individual taste and as is the case with most musical folk art forms, only somewhat dependent upon the established rules of music. With this in mind, I designed this book not to provide the definitive chord progression for a given song, but to offer some fairly straight forward chord progressions for the songs, as well as some of the more common alternatives I have encountered.
Play Fiddle Play
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Song List: 1. Wild John 2. Durang's Hornpipe 3. Roxanne Waltz 4. Boil the Cabbage 5. Hot Springs 6. Chancellor's Waltz 7.Trot Along 8. Snowflake Reel 9. Play Fiddle Play 10. Sally Johnson 11. Kelly's Waltz
John started playing the fiddle in the third grade. This CD, featuring John and his classmate Daniel Caswell on guitar, is his Senior Class Project. He is a sophomore at Hampshire College in Massachusetts.
Going Places
Featuring Cam Cross
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Cam Cross is a sophomore at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the 2001 and 2002, Colorado State Fiddle Champion and performs regularly throughout the Denver area. On his first CD, Cam plays fiddle, guitar, tenor guitar and bass.
Song
List:
1.Sally Goodin, 2. Jin Ricksha Hornpipe, 3. Trotalong, 4. Zenda Waltz, 5. Dusty Miller, 6. Going Places, 7. Kelly Waltz, 8. Wild John, 9. Beaumont Rag, 10. 50 Years Ago, 11. Say Old Man, 12. Lindley's Waltz
Cam also plays fiddle for a rock band named "Xiren". The following is from an interview he did for "HigherListening", an online music magazine.
"We are kind of a cross between Foo Fighters, Stone Temple Pilots, Pixies and Mathew Sweet... But don't really sound like anybody else. We are original...
Occasionally one will see the instrument itself being modified to complement the technique, but fundamentally, it's the same instrument. As for famous players, I could name a dozen famous Texas fiddlers off the top of my head, since that is the style I've been trained in. Perhaps the most famous of this group is Mark O'Connor. Mark started off as a Texas fiddler, playing the same songs and competing in the same contests I do today, and has since branched off into jazz, blues, bluegrass, and other styles. Other famous Texas fiddlers are Terry and Dale Morris, Benny Thomasson, Major Franklin, Matt Hartz, my teacher, Chris Daring, Orville Burns, Matt Hartz, the Rast sisters.. the list goes on and on. If I was an Irish fiddler, I'm sure that I could name off just as many great Celtic musicians, but I'm not very well acquainted with that style. The same goes for the classical world - oh sure, there are the great virtuosos, Jascha Heifitz, Itzhak Perlman, Issac Stern, but those are the only names that I can think of right now. It's amazing how specialized music can be, how one can devote one's entire lifetime to a style of a genre of an instrument. I guess that might also help you explain to others the difference between fiddlers and violinists - they're playing the same instrument, just approaching it from a different angle. "