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Playing Since: 1968
Experience Level: Purty Good
frailin has made 274 additions to Banjo Hangout
Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Male
Age: 57
My Instruments:
Right now I play 2 Chuck Lee Marble Falls, both with Bill Rickard tubaphone tone rings. I love sampling other banjos, but have settled on Chuck's for their consistent performance (legendary neck sensitivity) and sound.
I play "Old Time Gospel and Bluegrass" with a MPLS-based group called Singleton Street.
We finished our Gospel CD "Wingin' It" late in 2007.
You can hear cuts off that CD, additional cuts from "Almost Live" our first CD and some fun field recordings done at rehearsal at:
www.myspace.com/singletonstreet
To see some Singleton Street articles on faith, music and autism, head over to www.artdeanne.com/Articles.html.
My old-timey group is the Eelpout Stringers.
These guys are great fun! Check out some of our music on my MP3 page. Other cuts also found at:
www.myspace.com/eelpouts
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Got LOTs of influences. From Unca Dave Macon and Stringbean right up to several of today's performers (i.e. Dwight Diller, Mac Benford, Mark Schatz and Joe Newberry). My favorite of all time though, is "Old Wide Load"... Tommy Thompson of the Red Clay Ramblers.
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 A sample cut of A Mother's Last Words To Her Daughter from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD. Features the singing and fiddle playing of Debbie Sorensen-Boeh.
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A sample cut of Angel Band from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD. Performed by Singleton Street.
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A sample cut of Boatman from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD. Done as only the Eelpout Stringers could do it!
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A sample cut of Chased Old Satan from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD. Features the singing and fiddle playing of Debbie Sorensen-Boeh.
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A sample cut of Colored Aristocracy from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD.
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A sample cut of Fisher's Hornpipe from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD. Features the fine fiddling of Debbie Sorensen-Boeh!
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A sample cut of Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD. Featuring Festival Friends Geoff Shannon, Karen Mueller and Terri Sullivan.
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A sample cut of Get In Line Brother from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD. Features Singleton Street.
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A sample cut of Greensleeves from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD. Performed by Craig with bass by David Tousley.
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A sample cut of I Got Two Hands from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD. Performed by Craig with guitar by Marty Marrone and guitar and bass by David Tousley.
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A sample cut of Johnny Don't Get Drunk from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD. Performed by the Eelpout Stringers.
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A sample cut of the Lady Of The Lake from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD. Features the fiddling playing of Debbie Sorensen-Boeh.
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A sample cut of Midnight On The Water from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD. Performed by the Eelpout Stringers.
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A sample cut of Morpeth's Rant from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD. Featuring the Eelpout Stringers!
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A sample cut of the Old Hymn Medley from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD. Features Singleton Street!
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A sample cut of Over The Waterfall from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD.
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A sample cut of Raising Arizona from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD. Performed by Craig with bass by David Tousley.
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A sample cut of Red Clay Halo from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD. Performed by Singleton Street.
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A sample cut of Soldier's Joy from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD. Features Festival Friends Geoff Shannon, Karen Mueller and Terry Sullivan.
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A sample cut of the Star Spangled Banner from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD. Performed by Craig with bass by David Tousley.
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A sample cut of the Woodchopper's Reel from the "Frailin' with Friends" CD. Featuring Debbie Sorensen-Boeh on fiddle.
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 Recorded right after a double-shot mocha. Fiddler is Nick Rowse, gee-tar is Loyd Mitchell and bass player, Karl Burke. We be the Eelpout Stringers. Woo-hoo!!
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Here's poster-boy Loyd in his singing debut!
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Nick found this tune. We love it!
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The Eelpout Stringers. Nick sings on this one made most famous first by Fiddlin' John Carson and later by Foghorn.
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Here's a few of my friends, the Eelpout Stringers playing some favorite tunes. This 'uns called Grub Springs. Dunno where Nick found it, but we like it!
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Nobody in our group named Johnny, but we try not to get drunk... too often, anyway.
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A wonderful "A" classic. Jeez, this is fun!
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A GREAT, 3-part tune. If it sounds familiar, it's actually Cherokee Shuffle - an "A" tune played in "D" (so naturally, it needed another name).
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This is a gorgeous tune... one we LOVE to play. Hope you enjoy!
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Ok, ok, so I wasn't close enough to the mic to be singing. Hey! It was a coffee house, for Pete's sake!! So what did you expect?!
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Ok, it's mid-morning on a Saturday in cold Minnesota. This is what happens when the coffeehouse offers you all the coffee you can drink. Don't try this at home.
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This song was also recorded with Nick (fiddle), Loyd (guitar) and Karl (bass... the Eelpout Stringers) about 30 minutes after the double-shot mocha. I was feelin' the caffine. Woo-hoo!
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As long as I was in the key of "A", I thought I'd lay down one of my favorite traditional tunes.
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Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! My new Chuck Lee all walnut Marble Falls with the Bill Rickard tubaphone tone ring (this one is called Alpha)! Thought I'd try just a tune (rather than a song). Enjoy!
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I heard this last night about 11P on a Robin and Linda Williams CD. I was so jazzed by it, I grabbed "Omega" this afternoon and laid this one down. What a GREAT TUNE!
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This is a favorite dance tune (I love to play), being played on my brand new, pretty little Ome Juniper (just came today! Woo-hoo!).
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This song is frequently sung at funerals. I like to sing it with friends and family. Reminds me of good times yet to be.
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A model tune. Heard the Stairwell Sisters do this.
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This beautiful tune has always been a favorite Christmas carol of mine. I sat down with my banjo last night and this just fell out. I thought I'd put it down today... Christmas Eve 2008.
I'm playing Tattletale.
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Ok, here's my gutsiest, riskiest, lay-youself-out-there recording to date. NOBODY can sing Gum Tree Canoe like John Hartford. I'm doin' this because it's my sweetheart's favorite song I sing (quietly... to her). So be kind to me, please. (Thank you!)
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This is a southern dance tune. I usually play this with fiddler Deb Sorenson-Boeh, but I'm doin' it solo, here.
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A Carter family classic... as immortialized by the Red Clay Ramblers. Played on "Red Clay" banjo.
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Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! My new Chuck Lee all walnut Marble Falls with the Bill Rickard tubaphone tone ring (this one is called Alpha)! Woo-hoo! (I can't talk right now... gotta go PLAY!). Woo-hoo!!!
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Saw a favorite movie the other night. Loved this soundtrack from the very first time I heard it!
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I'm Scots. Couldn't help myself from working this one up.
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Everyone needs to record their version of this traditional favorite. Here's one of mine.
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Well, I couldn't just stop at one. So this is a second dance number laid down on my pretty little Juniper! What a super banjer!!
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 Recorded with one of my favorite fiddlers, Deb Sorensen-Boeh.
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 This is a GREAT OT number that's really fun to perform. Think I stole most of this arrangement from Spinning Jenny.
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The CORRECT title is Don't Give Your Heart to a Rambler, but there wasn't enough room. Seth performs this number on the Great Lakes Rose. SWEET! It sounds fuller when he has more hair.
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Deb sings this. Wonderful tune!
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 More fun from the Frailin' Festival Files. Geoff Shannon on guitar, Debbie Sorensen-Boeh on Fiddle, Karen Mueller on Autoharp and Craig Evans on Banjo. Woo-hoo!
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More fun from the Frailin' Festival Files. Geoff Shannon on guitar, Debbie Sorensen-Boeh on Fiddle, Karen Mueller on Autoharp and Craig Evans on Banjo. Woo-hoo!
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A terrific fiddle tune. Geoff Shannon on guitar, Debbie Sorensen-Boeh on Fiddle, Karen Mueller on Autoharp and Craig Evans on Banjo. Woo-hoo!
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Ok, so it's not a Christmas song. But we really, really like this number. Hope you do, too!
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Here's a second song from our freebie Christmas CD. Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Ok, so maybe we're just cheap. But like the Eelpouts, Singleton Street got together and cranked out a Christmas CD for friends and family. This is one of two cuts I'm posting. Enjoy!! (We sure did!).
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My favorite Flatt and Scruggs number... done with our own spin.
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A great song about eatin' Rabbit.
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Jimmy our bass player sings this. One of our most requested numbers. Great love story about a guy, a girl and a fabled motorcycle
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Here's When I Lay My Burdens Down, a third cut from our newly released Gospel CD. As a part of the thread discussion on use of clawhammer as backup, this song requires sparse instrumentation, but the banjo's use of chops (short and hard) serve as POWERFUL reinforcers of the beat as well as give the song momentum. I've also thrown in what Chuck Leyda (the singer) calls "flimsydiddles"... little music ornamentations that either tie a tune together between a verse and chorus or finish off a phrase.
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Here's a cut from our upcoming Gospel CD. There is NO music more fun to perform than Gospel. Here's an example. Hope you feel the joy!
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