"Shreveport Farewell" - Ragged Barrelhouse Blues Piano from Little Brother Montgomery
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Here I am messing around with a great tune from Little Brother Montgomery. He first recorded this in 1936 - part of an epic 1-day session which saw the release of 18 sides, all of which he captured in one take!
Shreveport Farewell is a great example of how ragtime and early jazz are important components of the barrelhouse blues sound. This piece uses a striding bass and is not in a 12-bar blues form, and yet, it maintains a definite blues feel. It should be noted that barrelhouse doesn't always have a boogie-woogie feel.
Little Brother's versatility and the wide range of influences that make up barrelhouse piano are both well on display in this tune.
Shout out to the great Carl Sonny Leyland, who first showed me how to play this tune!
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What a wonderful piece with a striding bass and not in the 12 bar blues form !
Little Brother Montgomery never disappoints. Every track you played from him was great
Thanks!! He really is one of the all-time greats!
Congratulations, Ethan! Great!
outstanding ! ! ! ! !
Thanks!
Great music Wonderful playing ! Awesome ! thanks very much ! martin
Thanks!!
Wunderbar!
Superb!
Glad you dig it!
There is a lot of melody going on in the left hand as well which I find fascinating.
Yes, indeed! There's a ton of left hand movement in this piece. When I'm watching a pianist, I pretty much always focus in on the left hand. It seems we're similar in this!
great 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thanks dude!!
❤❤🎉🎉
Beautiful! Took me straight to fannin street in my mind, thanks Ethan!!
Awesome! Thanks
You make it look so easy:) Keep it up bro.
Thanks mark
Montgomery one of my favorite players. He recorded 23 songs total that day. This would've make him smile.
I wish so much I could’ve met him. Gotten to talk to a few folks who knew/played with him....grateful for that
Barrelhouse Chuck told me about him. He walked with giants.
Chuck and I met only once. You could really tell how much he missed him.
Love it!
Great playing as always Ethan!
Stunning!
Glad you dig it , Stanley! I've been having so much fun with this tune recently,. I used to feel very stiff when playing it, but now it feels like I can say something with it. Thanks as always!
Ethan, Good to see you mention Carl, he’s one of ours you know!
Indeed he is! He’s been my greatest living influence and mentor ... not to mention a great friend!
Hey Ethan - not heard this before. Very attractive piece
I highly recommend Vol. 1 of LBM’s complete recordings from Document Records. So many gems! Thanks for listening!
Absolutely killer. I watched your video from the theater where you talk about the history of this stuff- so you learn all this barrelhouse stuff by ear whereas ragtime would be from the sheet music, is that correct?
Yeah, that's right. Sometimes I'll peek at transcriptions of recordings, but try to learn as much by ear as possible, so that I can better get inside the tune and find my own way. I take help where ever i can (videos where I can see fingers, or in the case of this song, I had Carl Sonny Leyland show me). But for tunes that were meant to be shared via sheet music, I'll use the sheets. It has its own challenges, but it's a nice break from trying to pick apart the scratchy old records.
@@EthanLeinwand Cool cool. I started out with ragtime but learning stuff by ear is so much more fun really.
I agree!