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Randy Adams - Posted - 01/18/2019: 09:12:19
I loved your ETB when you posted it 13 years ago. Can't believe it was 13 years ago. Very superior and beautiful playing John. I'll listen to the newer here in a little bit.
ironhead - Posted - 01/18/2019: 10:35:07
Excellent playing 13 years ago, but even better in latest version!! Great job! Brian M
Edited by - ironhead on 01/18/2019 10:35:34
John D - Posted - 01/18/2019: 12:51:48
Thanks for the nice comments guys! Randy, if I'm around in 13 years, I'll post another version. I'm sure you'll be around to check it out!
JanetB - Posted - 01/18/2019: 15:22:29
Wow, John, that's a fun tune and both your versions are wonderful. I'm heading in life where you are. If I'm from Smartsville does that make me a smart geezer?
Adam Hurt taught me his arrangement in double C tuning, as relaxingly played with Megan Lynch Chowning on their fairly new CD Inside Out. I decided to try a different tuning. In open G it comes out in the same key as Charlie Bowman and the Hill Billies if I play on the cello banjo or a mini-banjo in cGCEG. Here I'm playing East Tennessee Blues in open G tuning, portraying it more like a rag than the blues.
Edited by - JanetB on 01/18/2019 15:26:48
RG - Posted - 01/18/2019: 19:26:32
Dang! Love this tune and both of your takes John, real nice!!!
OldPappy - Posted - 01/19/2019: 20:25:57
Enjoyed this one ! Might even give it a try.
JanetB - Posted - 01/21/2019: 12:05:01
After trying East Tennessee Blues in open G tuning, I went back to double C tuning to give it another try.
I read that the title came from his band leader, Al Hopkins, who suggested the blues part. Charlie didn't think it was the blues (neither do I nor Doc Watson), but went with that title on his tune anyway.
stratovarious520 - Posted - 01/21/2019: 20:35:00
John, both your versions are incredible! I am not much of an old time type player, but I enjoy the music. Ms. JanetB actually turned me on to the tune, and gave me a nudge toward posting it here. It’s an abbreviated version that I just put together quickly. I don’t know if I’d call my attempt bluegrass, old time or what, but it’s a very fun tune to play!
Edited by - stratovarious520 on 01/21/2019 20:36:00
banjukebox - Posted - 01/22/2019: 09:02:17
Great tune and well-played by all. I've been looking for C tunes to add to my tunes list - this just went to the top of the list. Thanks for posting.
Winged Words - Posted - 01/24/2019: 01:08:39
Sorry I messed up an edit and replied to myself somehow, then deleted the wrong post. No matter.
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Originally posted by Winged Words
I've just looked at this, a little late.
It was very well timed, John. Usually TOTW is new to me, but this one is much more familiar territory. Back in the late 60's when I was in my late teens a group of friends here in SE England were starting to get more seriously interested in music. There were four of us and we all explored slightly different areas of blues and folk and the like, and shared our discoveries. The common thread was really the sort of thing our favourite Bob Dylan was stealing, especially in his early days. It led us to all sorts of places, Mississippi John Hurt, the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, the sort of thing John Renbourn, Bert Jansch Ralph McTell and a hoard of folk club wannabe's were doing. More rag than Chicago blues. I never made the further step to discover old time and banjo back then.
Anyway, this tune brought those times back to me.
And well timed because my friend of 57 years, Steve, died very suddenly on 19th Jan 2019. The second of our little group to go. A week before I'd been remembering my first guitar bought exactly 50 years ago, and thinking of those happy times.
The other survivor and I haven't played together for many years, but I'm thinking when we meet for Steve's funeral we could give this one a go.
Thank you John. I shall play this one with a smile and a tear.
"With hungry hearts through the heat and cold
We never much thought we could get very old
We thought we could sit forever in fun
But our chances really was a million to one."
Edited by - Winged Words on 01/24/2019 01:11:02
Tractor1 - Posted - 01/24/2019: 06:06:43
quote:
Originally posted by Winged Words
Sorry I messed up an edit and replied to myself somehow, then deleted the wrong post. No matter.
quote:
Originally posted by Winged Words
I've just looked at this, a little late.
It was very well timed, John. Usually TOTW is new to me, but this one is much more familiar territory. Back in the late 60's when I was in my late teens a group of friends here in SE England were starting to get more seriously interested in music. There were four of us and we all explored slightly different areas of blues and folk and the like, and shared our discoveries. The common thread was really the sort of thing our favourite Bob Dylan was stealing, especially in his early days. It led us to all sorts of places, Mississippi John Hurt, the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, the sort of thing John Renbourn, Bert Jansch Ralph McTell and a hoard of folk club wannabe's were doing. More rag than Chicago blues. I never made the further step to discover old time and banjo back then.
Anyway, this tune brought those times back to me.
And well timed because my friend of 57 years, Steve, died very suddenly on 19th Jan 2019. The second of our little group to go. A week before I'd been remembering my first guitar bought exactly 50 years ago, and thinking of those happy times.
The other survivor and I haven't played together for many years, but I'm thinking when we meet for Steve's funeral we could give this one a go.
Thank you John. I shall play this one with a smile and a tear.
"With hungry hearts through the heat and cold
We never much thought we could get very old
We thought we could sit forever in fun
But our chances really was a million to one."
a favorite early dylan song
jack_beuthin - Posted - 01/25/2019: 12:44:02
This is one of those "way back" tunes for me, and has inspired me to get it back in the repertoire. Back around '79-'80 I was studying 2- and 3-finger style with a banjoist from Chicago who came out of the Old Town School. He taught me a version of East Tennessee Blues in a classical/Charlie Poole-ish style. I still have his hand scrawled tab too. I had hoped to bring it back to life by now, but I go sidetracked with prepping for the current TOTW. So with that done, I'll post my 3-finger version here soon as I get it ready for prime time.
Thanks John for yet another fine tune, presentation, and picking!
