Just couldn’t get to sleep on time tonight, had this little fiddle tune stuck in my craw and I couldn’t get it gone until I recorded it. With guitar, banjo and fiddle! I love fooling around with recording software, and I’ve been practicing this beautiful little thing called the Tennessee Waltz…
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It’s so cool to hear my great grandfather’s fiddle playing, even with me playing it. I love when I hear someone who really knows how to play, play the old thing. It’s so sweet and has a nice dark tone to it. Most fiddlers love the thing. I’m getting a little better at getting it to sing instead of squawking like a cat in a lawnmower. Beginning fiddlers can sound that way. Honest.
The Opry is Wednesday, yes, St. Patrick’s Day and we are hoping that our bluegrass fans will love a good reason to get out and listen to our celtic-variation on the theme…. Bluegrass has a lot of roots in Appalachian mountain music and celtic music. All good stuff!
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I love have loved to learn to play the fiddle but when I rented one I quickly learn I really wasn’t made to play string instuments. I felt to awkward. I come from a family that plays woodwinds. In high school my mom played the flute and picolo, my sister the flute, and I the clarinet. Don’t get me wrong, I love my Clarie but she’s a little too classy for some situations. What I need is an irish whistle. That’ll be my next project.