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Topic: The MH Octet live - "Country-and-Western" aesthetics |
Susan Alcorn
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Baltimore, MD, USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2017 8:38 am |
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OK, I'm sorry if I tricked some into clicking on this.
Here's a video of the Mary Halvorson Octet performing "The Absolute Almost" on January 6th at the NYC Winter Jazzfest, which starts off with a four minute steel guitar solo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9e9TcbHHBs
Mary Halvorson - guitar
Chris Lightcap - bass
Ches Smith - drums
Ingrid Laubrock - tenor sax
Jon Irabagon - alto sax
Jonathan Finlayson - trumpet
Yours truly - steel pedal lap slide abacus zither
In the February 2017 issue of the New York City Jazz Record, the reviewer wrote:
"Mary Halvorson played with her octet from their
latest album, Away With You, to a packed The New School
5th Floor Theater audience. She shone as a bandleader,
opening the floor for pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn’s
ambient moods and Country-and-Western aesthetics."
It's nice to have your name spelled right and the name of your instrument properly credited (not lap steel, not slide guitar, lap pedal, steel pedal, lap slide; on the album review, one writer initially called it a banjo), but I don't quite hear the C&W . . . "not that there's anything wrong with that".
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Jack Stoner
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Posted 29 Jan 2017 9:36 am
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| It's nice to have your name spelled right and the name of your instrument properly credited |
I tracked a song on an album for a New Zealand studio about 3 years ago. I was listed on the CD liner notes as "Peddle Steel: Jack Stoner". (The CD is "Kids Sing Bob Dylan").
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Ken Pippus
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Langford, BC, Canada
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Posted 29 Jan 2017 10:00 am
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That's far and away the best sounding abacus zither I've ever heard.
Nice stuff! |
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Jack Stanton
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Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey
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Posted 29 Jan 2017 10:12 am
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Susan Alcorn
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Baltimore, MD, USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2017 12:34 pm
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Jack Stoner, if they wrote "peddle" in New Zealand, they probably pronounced it "piddle" which perhaps is even worse. Oh the indignities we must suffer for our instrument!
Ken, thank you. I guess it all "adds up" somewhere.
Jack Stanton . . . True that!
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