I first knew of Tony Trischka as part of Country Cooking, whose album 14 Bluegrass Instrumentals I acquired some thirty years or so ago. (I now have its CD successor, 26 Bluegrass Instrumentals.) Above is Tony, backing up Tashina Clarridge, a brilliant young fiddler from Northern California (note her appreciative laughs when Tony does some fancy picking at 3:08 and 3:14), doing "Sally Goodin" at the 2011 Joe Val Bluegrass Festival in Framingham, Massachusetts.
Guitar on "Sally Goodin" is by Michael Daves, who is in his eighth year of residency at our local Rockwood Music Hall. In the video above he does "Mule Skinner Blues" at the Rockwood in December of 2010.
The bassist is Skip Ward. On "Sally Goodin" he plays acoustic bass. In the above clip of "Clean" by the Darren Lyons Group, he plays electric bass in a fusion piece, performed at B.B. King's Blues Club in 2011.
When I first heard Béla Fleck play banjo, I thought his style a bit weird. As I listened to him more, I became awed by his ability to syncretize bluegrass, jazz, and classical elements in his music. The clip above is of Bela doing "Big Country" along with Chris Thile on mandolin.
Brittany Haas is best known as a superb fiddler. In the video above she is in duet with Lauren Rioux doing a medley of "Grey Owl" and "Red, White, Blue and Gold"; on the latter she shows her talent on the banjo and, along with Lauren, as a vocalist.
Brittany Haas is best known as a superb fiddler. In the video above she is in duet with Lauren Rioux doing a medley of "Grey Owl" and "Red, White, Blue and Gold"; on the latter she shows her talent on the banjo and, along with Lauren, as a vocalist.
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