Number Sixteen

1) Dark Hollow/Garcia Grass w Jeff Wisor – 2/4/11 – the Burning Barrel/Ansonia, PA
2) INTRO>
3) Dark as a Dungeon/David Bromberg Quartet – 10/18/86 – Chestnut Cabaret/Phila, PA
4) Must You Throw Dirt in my Face/Charley Louvin – 2007/SXSW/Austin, TX
5) No More/Neil Young – 12/11/89 – Paris
6) Watermelon Man/Michael Hedges – 5/26/90 – Strawberry/Yosemite, CA
7) Boy from Oklahoma/Willis Alan Ramsey – 11/19/78 – Memphis, TN
8) The Driver’s Song/Bill Morrissey – 11/8/86
9) Alberta/New Blue Velvet Band – 3/4/93
10) Omie Wise/Bob Dylan – 12/22/61 – Minnesota Hotel Tape
11) Mink Don’t Trickle Down/the Horseflies – 8/4/89 – Rooney/Deposit, NY
12) Do You Want My Job/David Lindley y Wally Ingram – 5/20/98 – Frankfurt, GER
13) Joy Will Find a Way/Bruce Cockburn – 8/30/79 – Hastings Lake Retreat/Alberta
14) Flag Decal/John Prine - 7/7/92 - High Sierra Fest/Leland Meadows, CA

Lotta good folkie-bent themes today, some fine guitar playing and a few tributes. We lost Charlie Louvin last month and I wanted to include something recent of his that would be nice, but in a way it's all a tribute to the music I love, and I do love this stuff. The Dylan track just kinda fell out of the sky via dime as a vinyl transfer of a lost bootleg album, as well as Willis Alan Ramsey and Neil Young in Paris, much of the rest is from my collection. The Michael Hedges piece, a Ramsey song itself, has been one of my favorites since I received it on cassette right around the time it happened. The Bill Morrissey track is kinda the same, I copied it from the master way back while I was still doing sound there, around 1990 as well. We've heard other tracks from this impressive early show by the reclusive New Englander and The Driver still haunts. I recorded that Horseflies track myself, part of a case of blank cassettes I spent at Rooney in 1989. The following 2 years I would end up performing there as part of Pavlov's Dawgs, tapes that will make up a future show here at Black Mountain Underground.

But the biggest tribute here today is for Jeff Wisor, the kind and generous fiddler who has been by David Bromberg's side for many years, now retired. We started off today's show with a track from a show by Bromberg's Quartet at the Chestnut Cabaret in Philly in October of '86, a show I was at the day I got out of the hospital for some serious heart stuff. The show was so over-crowded that people were ejected and Jeff and I had time to reminisce about that recently at a NEPA Bluegrass event where we met. He also later sat in with a group I am part of called Garcia Grass. Garcia Grass is made up of myself on mandolin and vocals, Mike Miz on guitar and vocals, Pappy Biondo & Dylan Skursky from Cabinet on banjo & vocals and bass respectively, and Anthony Hannigan from Hickory Project on fiddle. I left a little flummoxed because I didn't get a picture with him, let alone get to say bye. That changed the following week when the band reconvened at the Burning Barrel in north-central PA when he sat in with the band for close to half the show, this time being recorded and photographed. It was certainly a proud moment to perform Dark Hollow with him at our side, the version so often performed by Bromberg's Quartet, a recording of which topped today's show thanks to taper Jack Riley, who also snapped this photo- below you'll find some links to some single tracks edited from that evening's show- Thanks for Listening!!
Deep Elem Blues/Garcia Grass w Jeff Wisor - the Burning Barrel, Ansonia, PA 2/4/11
Long Journey Home/Garcia Grass w Jeff Wisor - the Burning Barrel, Ansonia, PA 2/4/11

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