Hey Diddle Diddle, Here’s Your Damn Fiddle
I got a nice fiddle part from Larry for “Just as Long as Me” and have mixed it in with the original tracks. I think it improves the song greatly, and makes my bluegrass faking sound plenty less fake. Larry plays with a band called Gaia Consort, a self-described psychedelic folk-rock band. Give it a listen. Thanks Larry!
June 20th, 2006 at 11:54 am
Impressive! Not that the original didn’t work — it did (when did you learn mandolin?). But the addition of the fiddle rounds things out even better. The extra voice doesn’t hurt either. They all add up to something I certainly wouldn’t be surprised to hear on the Opry.
June 20th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
That’s my guy! The best damn fiddler moonlighting at Microsoft.
Yee-haw.
June 20th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
Wow! I do loves me some fiddlin’! That’s great!
June 21st, 2006 at 5:21 pm
Is that going to become part of “Other Experiments”?
June 22nd, 2006 at 11:46 am
That is frickin amazing.
June 23rd, 2006 at 5:46 am
I hear echoes of Queen’s “Fat Bottom Girls” in this song.
June 23rd, 2006 at 5:02 pm
It’s some mighty powerful fiddlin’, but I think it’s too much, sometimes distracting rather than augmenting. My first thought is to mix it in only for the chorus.
“Long as Me” has some of the best lyrics you’ve written, and I really appreciate that you’re stretching yourself stylistically. Next: nerdcore?