- 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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