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- CD liner notes
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- When Halley
Came to Jackson
- What could be
better than a folk song about a comet? Hart Gibson from my
band Public Radio had the idea of sticking Fiddler’s Dram
into the song rather than the original melody, and it worked
perfectly.
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- Chip: Martin
1967 D21 guitar, L. Smart J2 and J3 guitars, Brentrup 21V
mandolin, Martin 1950 18T tenor guitar, Maybell Recording
Songster converted 5 string banjo
- Jeremy
Hadden:1950's Kay upright bass
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- St Anne goes
Over the Waterfall
- This is a shout
out to the Norman Blake records I listen to regularly. I
wanted to play a traditional fiddle tune, and decided two
would better than one.
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- Chip: D21, 1985
Flatiron F5 mandolin
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- I've Been All
around This World
- This song has
been a favourite of mine since I heard the Dead play it on the
“For the Faithful” album. I’ve been playing it in my
bedroom ever since, and thought it deserved the chance to be
heard.
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- Chip: Martin
D21, D18V, Brentrup 21V mandolin
- Jeremy Hadden:
Kay upright bass
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- Sunday
Afternoon
- I started
writing this song by myself after hearing a bluegrass song
modulating between A and C. It sat for a long time but I was
finally able to finish the B part with the help of my friend
Eric Frith. The ode to The Wizard of Oz is unintentional but
is now completely obvious to me.
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- Chip: Martin
D21, Flatiron F5 mandolin
- Jeremy Hadden:
Kay upright bass
- Come Back to Old
Santa Fe
- I recorded this
song as a demo in a short time, and was never able to recreate
the feeling. In the end I kept almost all of the original
tracks.
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- Chip: Martin
D21, D18V, Flatiron F5 mandolin
- Jeremy Hadden:
Kay upright bass
- Summertime
- I was trying to
rerecord some parts for Santa Fe one afternoon and just
couldn't make it happen. Out of frustration I asked Dave Puz
to set us up with a new song, and in about forty five minutes
I recorded all of these parts without any planning ahead of
time. This is as close to jamming with myself as I can get.
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- Chip: Martin
D21, Flatiron F5 mandolin, 1960's Kay upright bass
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- I'm Not Gonna
Forget You
- This great Tim
O'Brien song just sort of inspired me one afternoon. I was
sitting around my little cottage at my friend Bozo's house,
and I grabbed a mic and set it up on the porch. I played and
sang the track together outside, and you can hear the insects
and wind in the recording to prove it. Bozo came in later and
added some nice dobro for me.
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- Chip: Martin
D18V
- Bozo Cardoza:
Rainy Day custom resonator guitar
- June Apple
- I used four
different mandolins when recording this, and settled on three
of them. An old Gibson oval hole plays the melody, the
Flatiron chops the rhythm and a Weber flatop plays the harmony
at the end. The second "guitar" solo is actually a
tenor guitar. Learning to play the melody on the banjo
may be the hardest thing I have ever tried to do musically.
The banjo is a 30's Stromberg Voisinet that I found in my
grandfather's closet. I never saw him play it, and for years I
thought it was just a piece of junk, maybe a good wall hanger.
One day I pulled it out and looked at it and realized it was
in very good shape. I replaced the original friction tuners,
had the neck set up and shoved a wash clothe inside the
resonator to muffle it some, but otherwise it is just as it
was for all those years.
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- Chip: Gibson
1924 "snakehead" A jr Mandolin, Flatiron F5, Weber
Aspen #2 flatop mandolin, D18V, Martin 18T tenor guitar,
Stromberg Voisinet 5 string banjo, Kay Bass, shaker
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- Nobody Wants
You
- I found this old
blues song by accident one day looking for something else. I
loved the sound of the recording, and kept listening. When I
heard a verse that appeared to accidentally have two beats
inserted into it I decide to make that the signature rhythm of
the piece. As a result this is my 12 ½ bar blues.
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- Chip: Martin
D18V, Hofner New President archtop guitar , Brentrup 21V,
Maybell banjo
- Jeremy Hadden:
Kay upright bass
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- A Place in the
Heart
- This song is my
thank you to the members of the Mandolin Café community who
have helped me an immeasurable amount. I recorded this early
one sleepless morning just to see how it would sound. I read
the parts from charts sitting in my desk chair in my office.
My plan was to rerecord the track, but in the end the simple,
immediate nature of this recording seems to suit the song
well. So here it is, warts and all…
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- Chip: Martin
D18V, Flatiron F5
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- Somewhere in the
Rubies
- Mike Saul from
the Kim Stocking Band
played a beautiful guitar solo for me on this one. Unfortunately
this track didn't make the final cut, though it appears on
some early copies of the CD.
- Chip: Martin D21
- Mike Saul: D18V
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