Chords for Foghorn Stringband - Interview after 'Yearlings In The Canebrake'

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_ _ _ _ _ All right, foghorn string band playing live today, [Ab] you know, I'm sorry I missed the name of the tune it's called
Yearlings in the cane break.
[G] It's in the cane break.
Okay.
I know there's a story behind every fiddle tune
We're how far back does that go?
Where'd you learn it?
Where's the company?
I learned that from a from one of our mentors Rafe Stefanini and a friend of his Bob _ Herring
But it's an old fiddle tune from Texas.
I can't remember exactly their source of it.
But yeah, nice little tune
So how many did you go like you're on the road you're touring?
All the time is that sort of a part of the thing?
Yeah, it's a lot of fun
_ We a couple years ago
we were in the van and we were just trying to someone said one time like
We noticed you don't we've seen you guys on this tour a couple times
You never play the same tunes or songs and how many do you think you have?
And so we spent a couple hours in the van one day and we came up with
800 tunes and songs pretty much and it's that was a couple years ago.
So it's probably up to about 900 now
How many can you play them?
Like it really you hear the first figure and it kicks it off
I mean, how many are in your head?
Oh, yeah, it's a trouble with our condition
I guess those tunes are all kind of in your head all the time.
So yeah _ _
Yeah, sometimes tunes come up that we haven't played in years and that's always a lot of fun
just like where did that come [Am] from and I
Always remind little things remind us or Kayla will play like one note of some other tune and I'll remember something or vice versa
_ Awesome.
_ So what's a you guys working on a record? _
_ There's
Things what's what's new in foghorn land? _
_ Yeah, we were just up on Orcas Island work where Caleb is from
They read those two islands in Washington just on the border of Canada up there in northwest Washington and
_ rented out of space the old Grange Hall _ and
We recorded for a few days and you know, we might get some keepers out of that little batch
But I think we're gonna try to record up in that _ _
area again in July _ _ We'll see
[Eb] Cool how many how many how many records now for foghorn it's been
_ _ There are eight total if that have that kind of the foghorn.
Yeah, I'm attributed to it this this _
That's been together about six years now _
_ Are we have to one called outshine the Sun and one called devil in the seat?
Do you guys do much original is it always traditional stuff?
Every now and then we'll throw on a mine in there, but we don't we don't record any originals
Yeah, I guess we recorded one fiddle tune.
I wrote a foghorn trio album.
Yeah _
So we're in a quartet you want to introduce yourselves.
We're in the quartet today.
My name is Caleb clowdered
I'm playing mandolin.
I'll be singing a little bit as well
_ _ My name is Reeb Wilms and I'm on the guitar
_ _ I'm Nadine Landry playing the upright bass.
Yeah
Sammy Lind and playing fiddle and maybe play banjo on one of these tunes _ _ _
_ I
Hear us all singing we switch off.
Okay.
Yeah, and I again Caleb and read that great record from last year that we've been playing a
Lot and so I throw that out the countryside of things
_ _ _ [Am] I'm sorry innocent road.
Yeah
_ _ Look _ _ _ _ at the band there's there's no banjo [A] and there's a mandolin and that kind of a little
Off the side to have the mandolin the old-time music like this
_ Yeah, we're cutting-edge _ _
_ _ But that whole thing that you're doubling the the fiddle lines on the mandolin, yeah, how did that get started?
Is that as unusual as I think it is or _ it's pretty it's fairly unusual.
I don't hear it too often
I mean you _ _ _ _ there's a little bit I can't I can't cite any exact places where I've heard it
But _ I don't know.
I started playing fiddle first
I was a guitar player and I started playing a fiddle and learning a little bit old-time film music and and
Picked up the mandolin right this right around the same time and then met a bunch of fiddlers who were
Way ahead of me on fiddling
So I just jumped in on mandolin
It was sort of easier to hang on right at the tempos and stuff like that
And so I started by mandolin and then you know
Originally, he just was playing rhythm stuff and trying to learn the chord changes as I was learning the music
But as I started picking up the melodies
Especially with Sammy.
We just started locking in on playing the melody in unison together and we had a strong
rhythm section at the time when the band started
_ bass banjo and guitar and
It just sort of linked locked in and became this thing that that had a different sound for foghorn for sure
Yeah, when I was living in Portland and we were learning a bunch of these tunes together and I always called Caleb
He's my favorite fiddle player in Portland, but it was on the mandolin
I think up all those little nuances on the mandolin that pretty much I've never heard anyone else do _
Always thinking that's maybe what sort of defines your sound, you know, is that yeah
_ _ It gives it I don't know sharper edge something
_ _ Do you find that you sort of feeling like the banjo role in the band at all also, or is that not well
Yeah, now now without a banjo.
Yeah, Moses.
I mean Sammy does play banjo and I'll play some fiddle
So we'll switch around but if there is no banjo and sometimes I'll play just a rhythm thing _ _ _ _ _
[C] That's pretty banjo oriented that claw hammer banjo.
Yeah, rhythm is right in there
So that but if I'm playing just the melody, I feel like I feel like I'm playing, you know
Not quite the banjo role banjos don't really ever get that specific.
No, he's claw hammer banjo _ _
They're playing more around it Taylor our old banjo player the Reverend PT Grover.
He always said yeah, we play about
I don't know two-thirds of the melody _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ It's like a clock, you know twice a day it's dead on _ _ _
All _ _ right, we are talking with the foghorn string band and again show tonight
The first show is tonight at the great eagle in Asheville there at Laurel Theatre in Knoxville tomorrow night
Then back at Appalachian State University on Saturday the Fiddler's Convention up there.
Let's get another time _
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