Cannot help with song title but I just love the little accordion in this video! Makes me wish I had one like that. Very pretty melody indeed.
Can you help me ID this song?
Well, folks! It's solved! Joe Collins 'The Banks of the Catawba' It's on his new album The River Runs Through it and it's streaming on amazon music. Wow..
It was one of his free tabs in the past. A nice song!
updated by @d-chitwood: 02/05/20 10:13:33AM
Jim Stewart's original here:
I'll venture to guess that this is a variation of Jim Stewart's, "Lament for Owen Christy" which is in Anna Barry's book Soundings whose contents can be found in the Western North Carolina Library Network by searching for her name.
updated by @salt-springs: 02/05/20 01:08:41AM
I agree with @Ken-Hulme. I would have used the word "active" rather than "complicated," but I think we're talking about the same thing. It sounds to me like a Celtic ballad in which the singing of any given verse might involve more notes depending on the specific lyrics.
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Doesn't sound complicated enough for O'Carolan, but it definitely has common Celtic runs and flourishes
She suspects that the song came from Anna Berry's 'Soundings' dulcimer book. But she isn't sure. It definitely was a tab my friend was playing
updated by @d-chitwood: 02/04/20 08:07:51PM
That worked. Nice. What does it mean, her Soundings book? Maybe she was improvising?
My friend who played it, said it was recorded the day Anna Berry passed away and she is suspicious it came out of her 'Soundings' book. But it's packed far far away and she can't double check.
It's a very lovely melody, but I haven't heard it before. Maybe it's something from Turlough O'Carolan's pen? Could be...
It sounds to me like a blend of The Ash Grove and Ashokan Farewell. Which, sadly, does not pin down the actual title. Ash Grove is Welsh and Jay Ungar says he wrote Ashokan in the style of a Scottish lament, so those might be useful clues. Sorry, it's all I got :-)
I just uploaded it to SoundCloud let me see if I can get it on here that way
Didn't work that way on my Mac - please do record it if it's so beautiful...whenever you get back. And thanks, have a good trip.
Cynthia, I could certainly learn the tune and play it for you . . . but I'm leaving in a little bit for a 2-day business trip. If this conversation is still at a stalemate on Friday I'll give it a try.
For the record, I did not have to download it at all. I clicked on the link Dana supplied and then clicked on the song title and it played directly from Google Drive.
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Dusty T., Northern California
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Dusty, can you play a short clip of it for us non-downloaders? Pretty please...
Well shoot! I've run it past Brian G., Linda B., Tull G, Billy A. No one knows it! Can someone who has Anna Berry (barry?) Soundings book check it? She thinks maybe it was hers.
Sure is pretty. No idea what song it is.
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Dusty T., Northern California
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As a musician, you have to keep one foot back in the past and one foot forward into the future.
-- Dizzy Gillespie
Now you have me curious but I don't want to download it...hope someone IDs it.
Don't know it, but I want to!
A friend recorded this song and forgot to notate the name. I've run it past a few friends and instructors and so far, no one knows what it is. Hope you can help! Dana
Here is a google drive link. I THINK when you click on it, your computer should offer you a play with music player for google drive. That's how i"m able to hear it. First 5 seconds is quiet.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6vTwCDi-ntaZFNaZzc2T1U4eXVkQ2ZDM1k5U1RUaEV5NTZv
updated by @d-chitwood: 02/05/20 12:58:32AM