Mountain Stage; Maura O'Connell, Jerry Douglas, and Russ Barenberg

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Can see why he's one of the best loved traditional and contemporary folk musicians in England. One of his best known songs it's a mean old scene. Some like there were a few sympathetic ears out there. You're listening to the stage a live performance radio from the mountain stage. Partial funding for mountain stage is provided by a major grant from the more than fifteen hundred holiday and hotels throughout the world this year come face to face with America at holiday and hotels. It's time for Mr. B once again the man from Michigan with the piano that's full of blues and boogie woogie. So Les who's with him here John is I back there I let's make him welcome once again Mr. B.

An acute help to you and thanks for having me down in West Virginia the whole trip has been beautiful from beginning and already I can see until its end. Time to play one song for you. Since it's only one I get to set it up with the short story if you don't mind. There was a time I mentioned locking caps before it was a time when the boogie woogie pianists were inventing the boogie woogie piano style down in logging camps in the Deep South. These guys would travel around they didn't have to take their own instruments so they would travel around on trains and they were mostly our tenement guys that would hobo around from one camp to another to play and they had to play on real rough pianos pianos that were never in tune and usually had whole sections of the piano that didn't work so they had invent a style of music that would work and if those circumstances plus you had to consider who they were playing for they were playing for guys that had worked in the lumber camps all day long for all week long in fact and this was the end of the week and they had also brought in other forms of entertainment for the weekend and there was a lot of noise going on and these piano players had to deal with that and for their inspired inspiration they

relied on their mode of travel and these were the freight trains that took them. And one of the great pianists was a guy named Albert Ammons that played on these freight trains. He relied this experience and he relayed it rather to his friend me luks Lewis. They were washing cabs for a living in Chicago and John Hammond Sr. said why don't you come and play at Carnegie Hall. Would you like that better and they they took about a half a second to decide and they were off of course and they recreated the speech with which it had actually been recorded 10 years earlier it's called the honky tonk train blues and this is a musical expression of a train that would travel down to the Deep South. That would be a freight train had no windows no doors nothing but a freight train with an old upright piano in the corner and the pianist would just try to make this right a nice time and it sounds like a beautiful thing to me and this is the musical expression of that journey in the original way of playing of some of these logging camp pianists. The honky tonk train blues. Feel

I'm quite a few moments to refuse to pay a fee. How was Mr.. ROONEY. Now you know this year on mountain stage when we've had this far less less girl who had Dr. John had Mose Allison Garth Hudson I think we had Mr. B to that list of fine keyboard players. Who else. That's true Bob Thompson I shouldn't leave him out for a minute here absolutely. Fits right in there. I want to give my cross enough time to do a couple more tunes but I do want to say something that I believe I said the last time he was on the show because to me it seems miraculous This is a man and you hear him play the fiddle. You hear him play the

guitar he never played any instruments until he was in college. Which is it those who play instruments you know what an accomplishment that is he grew up around music but he would had other interests picked up the guitar in college and the rest is history as we say ladies and gentlemen Mike Ross. Rand Paul was a fiddler. He loved this man. But women cards and whiskey all made it sweet music to him. Sweet music he had. It in the bar each night a girl party is new. Plays fiddle and his cards drop as he could be. Just drunk as he can be.

To me and raise me afterthought. But if he told me anything. Coffee. Sure would cause you try. You can't do it for me that's what he used to say Alert. You can teach yourself to let go your own way. And it is for your own way. He died and left me nothing I don't give a damn. Because I never wanted nothing but to be just what I am

is what I. Blame other gentle. I drink my whiskey hardship read it girls at all. Money Mister the little car. If Mr. Daley called. Well in honor of our friends from the British Isles I thought I would play a medley of old Celtic tunes that I happen to love. The

first of these is a beautiful old air. Some people think it's it's an Irish air some people think it's a Scottish air. I think it's Scottish because they're such a sparse city of notes in the tune. And my Aunt Maggie very proud of her plaid blood always told me that any caution I had in the use of money was directly derived from her bloodlines. She's the one who told me that the Grand Canyon was started when a Scotsman lost a nickel under a ditch I don't know if that's. Still with the first tune at any rate we're going to call an old Scottish air it's called The Gentle maid now the second one is clearly an old Irish jig Irish jigs as you know have a basic rhythm pattern that goes kaput. Look at your Celtic disco your Shamrock the ghoul that's worn much the the Irish jig is called The Joy of my life. The final tune is a beautiful old piping reel called a pigeon on the gate. You've probably heard it called a whitewashed dance but this is the original title. And. In the course

in the course of these tunes you're going to be hearing certain special little sounds on some of the notes that you're not accustomed to hearing in other kinds of violin or fiddle music. So the old Scottish and Irish fiddlers in an effort not only to emulate the sound of the bagpipe but also in an effort to emulate the sounds of the world around them with to put these special embellishments on the note just to give them a unique flavor. The first sound you'll hear of course will be the droning of the bagpipe. And you'll know I have achieved a sound similar to that of a bagpipe when you hear a sound that reminds you of a band saw running through a duck. I think. The second thing you'll notice will be a sound that reminds you of little sheep bleating. It will be serving will like daiquiris after the show over this if you like this will be. The third sound you'll hear will be a sound that remind you of little birds chirping in the bushes. Of course he's all Scottish and Irish fiddlers are so comfortable with the tunes having heard them since before they were born and

having played them since they were old enough to grasp an instrument will play the tune through once so you can hear how the melody goes and then they play a little differently each time after that. Over there in the land of the Celts those are called variations on the theme. Of course when I play them I call them most stakes. Running. Thank

you. Point you are an a point. Nice fiddle from my cross way was explaining the birds and so forth I thought he was going to Peter and the wolf. You're listening to mountain stage live performance radio from the mountain stakes. Partial funding for mountain stage is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Support for the national distribution about the stage is provided by the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation of the NPR arts and performance fund. Later I want to give these people as much time as I can so I'll simply introduce them and move out of the way. Mar O'Connell Jerry Douglas and Russ Berenberg

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Weak and I. Didn't know was that throwing would ever meet your. Beef was very good sing me way. To life love and I was was your goal. Do you.

Do. And I was. Go. On. That was the song that was known one time and I think apples and pears but we have changed the title. It's now called an Irish blues. Now we're going to do a song that is very very old Irish melody originally known as Shaun of the red line

a shot of the day and there's a version of it as the battle of Aqua but a few years ago a friend of mine called Jerry O'Beirne put new words to us in English. It's now called the Isle of Man like. I. Was was. Was was. It's for fun doing. Morning like this week.

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Can see. Sure will. Thank you very much. Thank you. We're going to do a sort of a swing tune for swaying as they'd say around these parts and. It actually was written in Ireland by a friend of mine called Charlie McGettigan. So it's kind of when you are saying if you were to put it into sort of colloquialisms and it's called I don't know how you do it but you do. And

and we're really glad we're here. So here we go. Right and. You. Get a GOOD. Job.

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I don't know I can't do it. And moral Connor and trust period are going to try to treat Douglas a little. Bit. More. She's a great singer I told you that before. We love to have her here. Hope you'll stay with us in the coming weeks friends. You'll be hearing performers like Duke Robel ard Queen Ida David Grisman in the Bluegrass experience Jesse Winchester Clarence Gate mouth Brown Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys the Turtle Island string quartet Tim and Molly O'Brien gamble Rogers Pierce Pettus

and many many more would have an encore prefer show pretty soon we're finally going to take a week off in a few weeks. You'll be hearing Dan Hicks and you could stick warriors again on the radio on our encore show. Well we got Jerry out here again for one more time and we're going to finish up with a song by Michael Nesmith remember Michael some people remember him from the monkeys. Sometimes he's try to forget that. But I'm sure certain things about he enjoyed he's a great songwriter really this is a song I don't know why meaning with this kind of thought here it's called the grand on we. You to listen to mountain stage live performance radio from the Mountain State. Of West. Virginia. It was over when touring in my new. Drawing. Her. Hand. Was on my way home from a sophisticated party where I got a little drunk on to.

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cameras and the car both. With the same old story. But the Countess had the brain. Put. On it by. Try and use. Them and all. Of the. Supply of. Food. But. Good news. For. The grand on. The front of. The Grandon. The stage is produced by the grocery and right now our associate producers when the experiment is

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