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35 posts tagged chris thile
floralandflannel: Punch Brothers’ jam session and interview for Vanity Fair
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Bluegrass That Takes the A Train Uptown: Chris Thile and Michael Daves play Lincoln Center
[Thile] and Mr. Daves simply plunge into classic bluegrass songs — from Bill Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, the Louvin Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs — and sing and play the daylights out of them…. That means speed, first of all: breakneck lines cleanly articulated over brisk rhythm chords, with the two men switching intuitively between lead and rhythm roles. But Mr. Thile and Mr. Daves can also play with restraint and delicacy, as they did in “Silver Dagger” and “Bury Me Beneath the Willow,” making regret and renunciation shine through… In old-fashioned style, they share a single microphone, often standing so close it is a wonder that their fast-moving picking hands don’t collide. They use traditionalist close-harmony vocals, trading off higher and lower parts with Appalachian-style quavers and yips. They map out arrangements but leave room within them to egg each other on, often revving toward peaks of fiercely strummed tremolo.
Music video by Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile performing The Goat Rodeo Sessions - Teaser One.
Funnyordie: Bluegrass Diva with Steve Martin, Ed Helms and Noam Pikelny: Renowned banjo player Noam Pikelny’s new Compass Records album Beat the Devil and Carry A Rail narrowly escapes creative failure with help from his Bluegrass community friends: Steve Martin, Ed Helms, Earl Scruggs, Béla Fleck, Chris Thile, Gillian Welch, and Dave Rawlings.
armchairs: “Gonna play a song I wrote for my grandmother… this one’s called Manchicken.” -Noam Pikelny
When I hear this song it occurs to me the best banjo player in the world lives in Brooklyn, New York.
NPR: A poor, cross-eyed boy from Kentucky, Bill Monroe created the hard-driving, high-lonesome genre known as bluegrass. This week he would have turned 100.
Listen to their excellent retrospective here. After you’re finished with that 8 minutes and 20 seconds, you can scroll down to find additional interviews and comment from Chris Thile, Sam Bush, Alice Gerrard, Tony Trischka, Eugene Lowinger, and Laurie Lewis.
cabininthepines: Cry, Cry Darlin’ by Chris Thile and Michael Daves
Originally written by J. Newman, this was a classic Bill Monroe tune from his album, Knee Deep in Bluegrass.
Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile play a little tune called The Farmer and the Duck
Sarah Jarosz - The Tourist
lovethrowsaline: Sarah Jarosz’ cover of Radiohead’s “The tourist”, featuring Punch Brothers.
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Tiny video of Chris Thile and Michael Daves playing Rabbit in a Log last night at Brooklyn’s Bell House
Chris Thile and Michael Daves at the Bell House, Wednesday July 20th
Sleep with One Eye Open is an impassioned collaboration/conversation between mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile and guitarist Michael Daves in which the subject is bluegrass. The album was recorded at Jack White’s Third Man Studio in Nashville. Thile and Daves will be at the Bell House this Wednesday, July 20th- tickets are $20 and are still available.
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