Orville Johnson

Late night, snowbound in Seattle, thought i'd throw this out for your consideration. I think I tried to post this a long time ago when the file sizes were smaller and it was too big. Anyway, it's a cut from my someday to be released duet CD, this one with Susan Pascal on vibraphone and me on my Guernsey. The song is a beauty from John Coltrane. It's in Eb and i play the melody in G tuning but lowered my low B to Bb and low G to Eb so I could imitate the pedal tones that the bass player plays on Coltrane's recording during Susan's solo.

This is from a session I did for Jori Chisholm For his CD Bagpipe Revolution. Bagpipe and dobro. It's an interesting sound. The first half of the tune is a jig (in 6/8 time, of course) and the bagpipe is tuned to A440. I'm pretty much playing a rhythm part since the bagpipe is wall to wall (kind of hard for a bagpipe to "lay back"). You might find the 6/8 roll pattern I'm doing to be interesting. The second half is played on a different type of pipe that is tuned to A480 and I play acoustic guitar on that section. Jori had me slide up as we finished the first half and then faded that into the new tuning. Neat effect.

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Just got a copy of this disc I played on with Casey MacGill and His Blue4Trio. Great 30s style harmony vocals with piano, ukelele, cornet, bass, drums, and, on a couple of songs, me playing my Guernsey dobro. I believe we recorded this with an old RCA ribbon mic a little further away from the dobro than I normally would mic it. These guys are great. If you like their style go over to http://www.blue4trio.com/  and check them out.

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just a quick note for those in the Seattle area. I'll be doing an afternoon dobro workshop this Sunday Oct.12 at Dusty Strings in the Fremont neighborhood. Check here for details...

http://www.dustystrings.com/shop/workshops-fall08.shtml