Post by Ptarmigan on Dec 16, 2007 10:01:32 GMT
Here are a few links to the work of a fine Fiddle & Banjo player Kate Lissauer.
If you are not already familiar with her playing she is well worth checking out.
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If you are not already familiar with her playing she is well worth checking out.
Kate Lissauer, currently resident in England, is a highly regarded exponent of American old-time country music. Kate has been performing and teaching for many years, and brings her knowledge and love of mountain, bluegrass and folk music to life through her passionate instrumental and vocal style.
Kate's musical history includes playing with one of Maryland's champion string bands, Rev. Chip and the Moonbrides, a busy performance, step-dance and square dance band, touring as a member of the legendary Steptones Appalacian cloggers, who helped to bring American step-dancing to the UK, and working as a member of Scotland's Celtic-American fusion, The Caledonia Ramblers.
CD 1 - Ain’t No Grave
Kate’s first solo album is a collection of fiddle and banjo tunes, ballads, string band numbers and old songs. Highlights include her singing with fiddle accompaniment, her old-style banjo-led songs, and her incorporation of Scottish ballads and tunes into her own style. The banjo tune John Lover’s Gone, to which banjo player John Whelan has added lyrics, has become a listeners’ favourite.
Instrumental and vocal accompaniments are provided by Joe Locker, Robin Gillan and Gail Williams.
Tracks:
1. Bluejay/Piney Woods/Camp Chase
2. Hog Eyed Man/Santa Anna’s Retreat
3. John Lover’s Gone
4. Flying Indian
5. Sweet Sunny South
6. Ain’t No Grave
7. High Dad in the Morning/Fine Times at our House
8. The Little Carpenter
9. Demicentenary Blues
10. Coal Creek March/Payday at Coal Creek
11. Liberty Off the Corn Liquor Still
12. Johnson Boys
13. Hatton Woods
14. Cattle in the Cane
15. Tifftie’s Annie
16. Duchess
17. The Conundrum
18. The Lady Gay
19. Elzic’s Farewell
20. Teardrops Falling in the Snow
21. New Lost Train Blues
CD 2 - Walk Chalk Chicken
Kate's newly released second album, Walk Chalk Chicken, was recorded and engineered in St. Albans, West Virginia, at the studio of Jim Martin Productions. Jim is an expert at capturing the natural feel of old-time music and has recorded numerous West Virginia traditional artists.
The album is a collection of some of Kate's favourite fiddle, banjo and guitar-led old-time repetoire presented in a variety of styles from solo performances to full string-band arrangements.
Tracks:
1. Hop High my Lulu Gal
2. Jeff Sturgeon
3. Faded Coat of Blue
4. Walk Chalk Chicken with a Necktie On
5. Walking in my slee
6. Country Farm Blues
7. Mississippi and Martha
8, Lincoln's Gunboats
9. Won't You Come and Go
10. John Rawl Jamieson
11. Pretty Polly
12. Shove the Pig's Foot a Little Further in the fire
13. Down the Road
Kate Lissauer's CDs
Kate Lissauer's Website
Kate Lissauer's MySpace
[url=http://www.buffalogals.co.uk/The Buffalo Gals
Kate's musical history includes playing with one of Maryland's champion string bands, Rev. Chip and the Moonbrides, a busy performance, step-dance and square dance band, touring as a member of the legendary Steptones Appalacian cloggers, who helped to bring American step-dancing to the UK, and working as a member of Scotland's Celtic-American fusion, The Caledonia Ramblers.
CD 1 - Ain’t No Grave
Kate’s first solo album is a collection of fiddle and banjo tunes, ballads, string band numbers and old songs. Highlights include her singing with fiddle accompaniment, her old-style banjo-led songs, and her incorporation of Scottish ballads and tunes into her own style. The banjo tune John Lover’s Gone, to which banjo player John Whelan has added lyrics, has become a listeners’ favourite.
Instrumental and vocal accompaniments are provided by Joe Locker, Robin Gillan and Gail Williams.
Tracks:
1. Bluejay/Piney Woods/Camp Chase
2. Hog Eyed Man/Santa Anna’s Retreat
3. John Lover’s Gone
4. Flying Indian
5. Sweet Sunny South
6. Ain’t No Grave
7. High Dad in the Morning/Fine Times at our House
8. The Little Carpenter
9. Demicentenary Blues
10. Coal Creek March/Payday at Coal Creek
11. Liberty Off the Corn Liquor Still
12. Johnson Boys
13. Hatton Woods
14. Cattle in the Cane
15. Tifftie’s Annie
16. Duchess
17. The Conundrum
18. The Lady Gay
19. Elzic’s Farewell
20. Teardrops Falling in the Snow
21. New Lost Train Blues
CD 2 - Walk Chalk Chicken
Kate's newly released second album, Walk Chalk Chicken, was recorded and engineered in St. Albans, West Virginia, at the studio of Jim Martin Productions. Jim is an expert at capturing the natural feel of old-time music and has recorded numerous West Virginia traditional artists.
The album is a collection of some of Kate's favourite fiddle, banjo and guitar-led old-time repetoire presented in a variety of styles from solo performances to full string-band arrangements.
Tracks:
1. Hop High my Lulu Gal
2. Jeff Sturgeon
3. Faded Coat of Blue
4. Walk Chalk Chicken with a Necktie On
5. Walking in my slee
6. Country Farm Blues
7. Mississippi and Martha
8, Lincoln's Gunboats
9. Won't You Come and Go
10. John Rawl Jamieson
11. Pretty Polly
12. Shove the Pig's Foot a Little Further in the fire
13. Down the Road
Kate Lissauer's CDs Kate Lissauer's Website Kate Lissauer's MySpace [url=http://www.buffalogals.co.uk/The Buffalo Gals