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Because you all come here because of my taste in music

some fiddle music:

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  1. Gorgeous. I love a good fiddle player.

    Do you know Alasdair Fraser? Great Celtic fiddler, Scotland-born. Ken Kolodner is a local boy (local for me — Baltimore) who has a world-class reputation as a hammered dulcimer artist but who also plays a mean fiddle. (Then there’s one of your countrymen — Garnet Rogers — not violin, but guitar and voice. And oh my god, what a voice.) And of course there’s Alison Krauss. Oh, and Elana James (nÊe Fremerman) of Hot Club of Cowtown. And I can’t forget Mark O’Connor. And Dougie MacLean. Randy Howard was fucking amazing. There are so many.

    I’ve had the luck and pleasure of interviewing a lot of theses people over the years; can’t remember all their names, just love the music.

  2. Mr. or Ms. I Like,

    I hear a lot of synthesizer, and a lot of guitar, but where’s the fiddle? What am I missing?

  3. Fiddle is under-appreciated. Pretty good, I prefer the more “athletic” kind but very nice.

    This isn’t fiddle and contains quite a lot of vocals and electronica (dunno if you like this) but it has a great cello solo at the middle (2:06) and end (4:00).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWzYSbV6u4M

  4. Alcuin

    O.K. We have a rock in the middle of the water, a man wearing a tie standing on said rock, logs flying out of the water that are used to build a prison after a fashion, and a musician wearing headphones playing a fiddle inside said prison. With no obvious source of electricity. Very interesting. Any takers on interpretation?

  5. AbyNormal

    Wicked Ian! but i come here cause you put ballz to the wallz.
    i dig Natalie MacMaster (not sure lightening could catch her here)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdc-oL6VjIc
    she taps too
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HuwuZG_HFo

  6. I might come back because of your taste in music.

    Thank you.

  7. Dan Henry

    Liz Carroll is also very good. She has an album, Double Play, with John Doyle who plays a mean guitar. I’ll also mention Emily Smith while I’m at it because I only recently found her work and I think Edward of Morton may be one of the best songs Ive ever heard.

  8. Dan Henry

    And to continue the notable songs recommendation, John Doyle’s Bitter the Parting is also fantastic. And Shane MacGowans vocals in The Pogues rendition of And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda fit oh so well.

  9. O.K. We have a rock in the middle of the water, a man wearing a tie standing on said rock, logs flying out of the water that are used to build a prison after a fashion, and a musician wearing headphones playing a fiddle inside said prison. With no obvious source of electricity. Very interesting. Any takers on interpretation?

    Music videos do not need to make sense, but in this case I would suggest that it is a metaphor for Edward Snowden. Or an Edward Snowden-shaped metaphoric hole for an actual Snowden to be coerced into. By the American government.

  10. AbyNormal, yes, I forgot about Natalie MacMaster. That clip you linked — holy shit. Paganini come back to life.

  11. What better music to symbolize our leaders’ actions while the world burns?

  12. Loved it, thanks Ian! 🙂

  13. News of Stirling?

    Other threads are closed, and I just learned of this.

    I live in the area, would be happy to do what I can, if I can.

  14. Garnet Rogers is good but his older brother, Stan, was a marvel. What a voice! Tragically, he was killed far, far too young, in a plane crash.

  15. Avril, agree. Stan Rogers was fucking amazing. I used to play his stuff, along with Garnet’s, when I was on the air locally (in Baltimore), many moons ago. I also used to tell the story of his death. Unfortunately, I never got to see Stan live; have seen Garnet many times.

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