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Favorite Video to Play Along With

#21

Most don’t give Steve Earle much credit but he ranks up there pretty high in my mind in being a song writer…this is a song that has “bluegrass” written all over it…not only in the sound but in the subject line also.

Oh, I am guitar-less tonight…hanging out in a Memphis hotel, momma wanted to “walk” for her masters even though she technically graduated with it a year or so ago, so after she walks in her University of Tenn Allied Health ceremonies tomorrow it’s a night or so on the town and hanging out on Beale street…you know that street that literally killed the music on Broadway Street in Nashville when a young feller named Elvis came along!

I’ll be “Walking in Memphis” humming the same named song by Marc Cohn.

If any of you fellers want me to pick up a velvet Elvis poster for ya then met me know :smiley: …In the meantime enjoy the Steve Earl song below!

youtube.com/watch?v=ZBuMFDHkrH8

#22

Great song Oldhat! I have a lot of coal miners in my family being from Virginia, so that song hits home for me. I’m a Del McCoury fan too, love their song “All Aboard”.

Have fun in Memphis…and I’ll have to pass on the velvet Elvis. :smiley:

#23

Hey Oldhat,
Eat some rendezvous BBQ for me while you are there. I like the Steve Earle song. For some reason it sparked a mental link to another song I like to play. It’s Tecumseh Valley by Townes Van Zandt. It sounds like it is a traditional song that has been around for much longer than it has. I think writing like that is much easier said than done.
I typed it up with the chord progression embedded in the lyrics so that the formatting won’t get lost:
C Well the name she gave
F Was Caro C line
F The daughter of a C miner
And her F ways were free, and it C seemed G/B to Am me
that G sunshine walked be F side her
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rq5GsZHd0Y[/video]

#24

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It sounds like it is a traditional song that has been around for much longer than it has.

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Seems like that describes a lot of Townes’ songs.

#25

Here’s you a good Grateful Dead song, Larry. I like playing along to this one.

Capo 2:
C, Am, C, Am, F, C, G, C. I like walking down from the “C” to the “Am” by playing the second fret on the A string then open A string to give it that defined sound. You’ll see what he is doing. I need to post how many measures each chord lasts, but it’s pretty easy to see.

The song starts at 24:14 in the video. Rosa Lee Mcfall.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=G7xvbo1fCjs&NR=1[/video]

#26

Good stuff, Shawn! The Stringdusters are great, and I hadn’t seen that video before.

I’ve actually been sneaking Rosa Lee McFall into my weekly jams nights. It was written by Charlie Monroe, so even though it’s primarily known as a Dead song, I can still slip it in as a Monroe song.

I don’t play it exactly like they do in this video though (never stuck the F chord in there) so this version will be fun to play with.

#27

Here’s y’all a little inspiration on The Old Home Place. :slight_smile:

This is the first vid I’ve uploaded to youtube, man 3 hours for two minutes of video! My Go Pro camera was going out of tune like a warped up VHS tape, especially right at the start of my break! HAHA! …which was a little off time, oh well. I ran out of memory after 2 minutes, didn’t realize I had it set to 720p HD. Now that the excuses are out of the way, on with the show! Ha!

P.S. I’m breathing, I’ve just got a mouth full of snuff. :smiley:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIljK0zWHLc[/video]

#28

Sweet. Nice job Shawn!

#29

Thanks Mike! :slight_smile:

#30

Oh so many thanks for posting these clips, they’re great. A wonderful idea for those of us who like playing along. Happy pickin’ to all.
Gordon.

#31

NIce pickin’, Shawn. Just wish you were a little louder and your backing track a little softer. I got a long way to go to get this break up to your level.

#32

Thanks Larry!

Yeah, my computer speakers were right behind the camera and I didn’t realize they were drowning out my playing so much. I need a whole new set up for recording.

EDIT: Might as well post up two more then I’ll give it a rest for a while and let you guys catch up. These guys have about ten songs I play with a lot. They go by “bigthreeorfour” on youtube.

Gospel Bluegrass:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4fQi4-8sOg&feature=relmfu[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-afzCPmGKU[/video]

#33

Shawn, I enjoyed your playing, good job. Wish you were nearby, we’d have fun pickin!

#34

very nice pickin Shawn …awesome …inspires me to keep on pickin’ …thanks for posting!!!

#35

Thanks guys!

#36

Yeah, that was some good stuff back when they had Gram Parsons in the band.

#37

Larry I pulled the post, tried and tried to embed the video but I guess my dumb!$$ can’t seem to do it!

It was for the record “I am a Pilgrim” via the Byrds.

#38

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omLysJCkP8E[/video]

#39

Oldhat, click the video button right beside the font color in your post and paste the youtube link between the tags.

Came across a pretty good Bill Cheatum video. I don’t know anything about fiddles, but I really like playing rhythm over what he’s doing, sounds great. Learned the rhythm playing along with Ben’s tef file.

Something doesn’t sound right to me on the B part. It goes G, C, D, G then G, C, G, D then G, C, D, G then G, C, D, G. So you’ve got G, C, D, G three times in a row? Maybe it’s the melody I’m hearing that makes it sound different every time? How do y’all play it?

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqr03Xmrfrc[/video]

#40

Shawn, you have it all correct (except, of course, it is actually in the key of A).