Old Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 3

Mike Seeger was a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers. The Ramblers almost single-handedly passed the love of old-time music on to the boomer generation. The explosion that followed is history. Really.

The Ramblers and Mike Seeger introduced me to 1920s string bands like the Carter Brothers $ Son.

Saddle Up the Grey

Played by PT
slowly

[The medium tempo version didn't take. I'll try again tomorrow.]

Mike Seeger was also a careful and insightful scholar and a complete gentleman. One of my favorite musical experiences was sharing the stage and band stand with him at a folk music camp in Wisconsin in 1997.

Thanks Mike.

Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler by Paul | January 20, 2010 | Comments (1)


1 Comment so far

  1. Richard on January 21, 2010 7:20 pm

    found some lyrics

    http://www3.telus.net/On-LineMusicWorldofWendy/Music/SaddleUpTheGrey.txt

Name (required)

Email (required)

Website

Share your thoughts