Lynn and I are playing for 35-40 minutes at 6:30 in the Eureka room during the 'banquet'. Our set was originally on Friday night but someone needed to switch. As Lynn said, we'll have a 'captive' audience... hopefully we'll make a few more fans and even sell a couple of CDs. Full schedule is here.
We have 11 songs 'planned' but will likely have to skip one or two. A couple of them are fairly new.
Little Annie: Carter Family with some Norman Blake style guitar thrown in. One of our few happy songs. This is on our CD 'Blue-eyed Boatman'.
Broken Hearted Love: a Carter Family song we learned from Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin. Not a happy song.
Milwaukee Blues: This is a Charlie Poole song on our CD. Lynn fiddles and I sing. The phrase 'fix the roads' can apply to our broken infrastructure or simply to pothole season.
Highway Man: This is another Charley Poole Song with a 'ragged waltz' rhythm. It's a variant of "Slack your rope, Hangman" which Lynn and I remember from the 60's folk era. This is our first time performing this one outside of Farmer's markets.
I've Got a Bulldog: the 'Sweet Brothers' version is our source - Lynn plays fiddle on yet another song about lost love.
Louis Collins: from Mississippi John Hurt. A cover by Lucinda Williams brought this to my attention, but we are using his 1928 recording as the source. I finger-pick this one. We learned this about a year ago, but haven't performed it much.
Rambling Boy: from the original Carter Family - the lyrics, especially the last verse, are a little strange. If our next CD is titled "Plenty of Dry Goods", this is where it came from.
New River Train: I've sung a version that I got from a Blake and Rice CD for years in jams. However, I'm now singing it using Ernest Stoneman's version as the source. I'm on Mandolin and sing it as a duet.
Rolling River: Illinois fiddle tune I do on mandolin. From the book & CD set: Dear Old Illinois.
Going to the West: Lynn does this on the CD, but we've changed the key to D (from F). I am on mandolin.
Pretty Little Miss: this is a 'folk song' that the Stanley Brothers got from the New Lost City Ramblers to put on an album in the early 60's. I first heard Big Medicine do it but we use the Stanley Brother's version as our main source.
I doubt that we will have time to fit all the above in, but we do have a few songs in reserve:
I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
Otto Wood
Raging Sea
