Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Chip Arnold/Rocking the babies asleep
Here's two finger picker, Chip Arnold, of Blairsville, Georgia playing "Rocking the Babies To Sleep." Tish Arnold accompanies him on guitar. Chip and Tish recently visited Bob and I at John C. Campbell Folk School to give a two finger banjo demonstration at our "Be a Banjo Star" workshop.
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nice pickin' for Chip. thanks for posting.
What a beautiful little waltz! I used to be the folklorist at the Folk School, back when the Mashburn Brothers of Blairsville, and Ross Brown of Hiwassee, were all still living. Does Chip do Robert E Lee's Surrender? It seems to be a local tune, another waltz. Ross Brown used to play it, and from what he used to say, when he first learned to fiddle from Uncle Joe Swanson, the first guitars in that neck of the woods people played in "Spanish" tuning after the Spanish Fandango, the turn-of-the-century parlor piece for fingerpicked guitar. Anyway, I can just hear what it'd sound like if Chip were playing it. I bet they know Don Fox, another great older Blairsville banjoist (he plays guitar and mandolin,and fiddle, and he sings, too).
I imagine it was some thirty years ago, while traveling near Brasstown N.C., that I had the wonderful experience of hearing Ross Brown play his fiddle. It might also have been for the fiddle week in Galax, I am not sure, but I heard him play. That then caused me to locate and buy a copy of the Mountain Valley Music cassette, which featured him on three songs, including Lee's Surrender and (my favorite) Sweet Marie. I sure would like to find another copy of that tape, and better yet, the original recording!
Larry K.
larry@penntrails.com
Hey, I'm the folklorist who produced the Mountain Valley Music tape with Ross Brown doing Gen. Lee's Surrender at the Folk School (w/ funding from the NEA and the NCAC).
If you go to my website @ piedmontblues.net, SOMEwhere on it I have the whole tape, digitized to at least mp3s.
I also have recorded a version that I used to accompany Ross years ago at Clay's Corner, in Brasstown.
Douglas Turner Day
Hey, I'm the folklorist who produced the Mountain Valley Music tape with Ross Brown doing Gen. Lee's Surrender at the Folk School (w/ funding from the NEA and the NCAC).
If you go to my website @ piedmontblues.net, SOMEwhere on it I have the whole tape, digitized to at least mp3s.
I also have recorded a version that I used to accompany Ross years ago at Clay's Corner, in Brasstown.
Douglas Turner Day
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