Showing posts with label Yo Burrito. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yo Burrito. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Pick'n with Cletus on a Cold Winter Night

Well after a fun night at Yo Burrito, I spent my Tuesday evening visiting Ole Cletus. It was freezing cold over on the Mountain they call Pleasant, but the fiery temperament of Cletus was more then enough to forget about the cold and focus on my guitar pick'n.

We started off playing the Dixie Hoedown then moved on to the Red Haired Boy, then to Cuckoo's Nest. As a guitar player I struggle with playing melodies in time. Ole Cletus has much to correct me on this night and I captured some great moments in this "lesson".

Here is me falling off the melody of Cuckoo's Nest and Cletus's response:

Yes funny stuff! After we spent a good half hour on Cuckoo's Nest we went on to Angeline the Baker and Over the Waterfall medley. Here is a clip of why any picker should turn there phone off when pick'n:

Ole Cletus is a character, but in all seriousness it was a great night we spent cleaning up some tunes I am struggling to pick. Thank goodness for a dedicated southern banjo picker!

Sandy

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

YO Monday

Yet another Monday night at Yo Burrito (downtown) has come and gone for the Bluestone Ramblers.  Somehow i think that we will remember this past one for a while.  From time to time we have guest pickers join us for a few tunes on the illustrious recycled rug that some say is the source of Sandy's strumming power.  Local legends such as Chris Robinson, Banjo Ben, and Cletus have joined us on the colorful rug (i think it needs a nickname, but more on that later). 

This time we were joined by Jason Schorr, a talented picker who only just recently moved to town.  He played some banjo and guitar with us, but I hear he is quite capable of pickin' the doggy-doo out of just about anything with strings on it.  We had a blast.  It just goes to 
show that you can't judge an evening by the amount of dollars that end up in the tip jar (in our case, the fiddle case).  Perhaps a better measure would be the amount of beer that ends up in the beer bucket.  It looks like it was a good night!  

Thanks Jason for coming out.  

Here's Dixie Hoedown from on top of the recycled rug at Yo Burrito (Keith-mandolin, Sandy-guitar, Jacob on bass, Gary-dobro, Jason-banjo).


Keith