Another great Song by Mary Ann West the impersonator for Patsy Cline. Everything happens for a reason. This was lovely. Great Orchestral Back up here. Just wonderful. Thanks for the Post John, Best regards, your Little Brother Patrick.
I was recently listening to this song ( one can't go wrong with Patsy Cline ) and now I find you've done a version here. Excellent. The singer has done a fine job; she sounds justs like Patsy. Pleasant synthy brass additions to give it a little extra swagger. Delightful 😊
Thank you Ramblin, Marianne is the wife of a friend of mine who I taught Trumpet to when he was 14 years old. He called me and told me that his wife sings just like Patsy Cline and he wanted to know if I would help him put together a show called the legend of Patsy Cline. After I heard her, I was shocked, I didn't even know that she sang? I had told him that Hans don't really belong in that kind of country western music but he insisted for me it was quite a challenge to try to get to blend in with the simplicity of that style of country western music. I put together music and created all of the horn parts. I'm playing the acoustic trumpet, the Yamaha WX5 - EWI some of the Trumpet, saxophone, trombone, flute and clarinet parts. I think I got it to blend pretty good? But often enough what I think is good other people don't even hear. I'll be putting a lot more from that show on my UA-cam channel and I just put on there, "Crazy" and "I Fall to pieces. " Aside from trying to get a feel for the country western style I found that trying to write such simplistic horn lines was even more challenging. It's kind of like a dog that likes to bark and then you put a muzzle on him, ha ha Thanks again for taking the time to listen. Your friend John
I suppose that horns have such a prominent role they risk detracting from the vocals which are usually the centrepiece of country music. I know that the fiddle was often used as a leading instrument but I don't recall hearing all that many horns in country. I think fiddle, slide guitar, banjo, I think Appalacian Mountains. In the meantime I think of brass and I think metropolitan jazz such as the way Lalo Schifrin used jazz to create metropolitan soundscapes. The points of connection seem to be in the blues and to a lesser extent in folk music. I say this because I think that country is the rural cousin of blues music in it's spirit. Often simple, evocative, rooted in a tragic sort of realism, and of course they both made good use of the slide guitar. In any case I often think it's good to mesh together different styles as listeners who like one style take notice and start to gain the aural vocabulary of another style. Though you were unsure at the beginning of the project, it's obvious that you found your feet pretty quickly - these Patsy Cline songs are great. In my hobby mixes I find it difficult to restrain myself to stricter styles. For example, I find it harder to construct a traditional rock song that goes verse, chorus, repeat, than to create something which has a more lyrical structure. The same can be said for electronic styles like EDM. I find it more challenging to create a minimalist piece that uses a simple rythm than something more variable. It may be that I lose a sense of intrigue. I can also be the sense that if neither the rythm or the melody is going anywhere then the song seems like a treadmill. This is accentuated by the use of samples. One can't so easily fit a lead instrument and just allow it to move along while a repetitive canvas is played out by other supporting instruments. Anyhow this is turning into rather a lng and rambling comment so I'll wrap it up. I look forward to hearing more of your Patsy Cline series. I think I'll go and listen to some Jim Reeves :) Keep well John :)
Thanks so much Patrick, this was one of the songs that Bob Wesolowski who is the producer and husband of Mary Ann West had asked me to try to make it sound like a big band, so I overdubbed an alto and tenor saxophones, two trumpets with a trombone to try to give it big band sound. PS, I broke out laughing when you referred to yourself as my little brother, that was hilarious. 😃🥃 Thanks again for your input and I wish you lived a little closer because then we could get together and play together😄🎺🎷
Another great Song by Mary Ann West the impersonator for Patsy Cline. Everything happens for a reason. This was lovely. Great Orchestral Back up here. Just wonderful. Thanks for the Post John, Best regards, your Little Brother Patrick.
I was recently listening to this song ( one can't go wrong with Patsy Cline ) and now I find you've done a version here. Excellent. The singer has done a fine job; she sounds justs like Patsy. Pleasant synthy brass additions to give it a little extra swagger. Delightful 😊
Thank you Ramblin, Marianne is the wife of a friend of mine who I taught Trumpet to when he was 14 years old. He called me and told me that his wife sings just like Patsy Cline and he wanted to know if I would help him put together a show called the legend of Patsy Cline. After I heard her, I was shocked, I didn't even know that she sang? I had told him that Hans don't really belong in that kind of country western music but he insisted for me it was quite a challenge to try to get to blend in with the simplicity of that style of country western music. I put together music and created all of the horn parts. I'm playing the acoustic trumpet, the Yamaha WX5 - EWI some of the Trumpet, saxophone, trombone, flute and clarinet parts.
I think I got it to blend pretty good? But often enough what I think is good other people don't even hear.
I'll be putting a lot more from that show on my UA-cam channel and I just put on there,
"Crazy" and "I Fall to pieces. "
Aside from trying to get a feel for the country western style I found that trying to write such simplistic horn lines was even more challenging. It's kind of like a dog that likes to bark and then you put a muzzle on him, ha ha
Thanks again for taking the time to listen.
Your friend John
I suppose that horns have such a prominent role they risk detracting from the vocals which are usually the centrepiece of country music. I know that the fiddle was often used as a leading instrument but I don't recall hearing all that many horns in country. I think fiddle, slide guitar, banjo, I think Appalacian Mountains. In the meantime I think of brass and I think metropolitan jazz such as the way Lalo Schifrin used jazz to create metropolitan soundscapes. The points of connection seem to be in the blues and to a lesser extent in folk music. I say this because I think that country is the rural cousin of blues music in it's spirit. Often simple, evocative, rooted in a tragic sort of realism, and of course they both made good use of the slide guitar. In any case I often think it's good to mesh together different styles as listeners who like one style take notice and start to gain the aural vocabulary of another style. Though you were unsure at the beginning of the project, it's obvious that you found your feet pretty quickly - these Patsy Cline songs are great. In my hobby mixes I find it difficult to restrain myself to stricter styles. For example, I find it harder to construct a traditional rock song that goes verse, chorus, repeat, than to create something which has a more lyrical structure. The same can be said for electronic styles like EDM. I find it more challenging to create a minimalist piece that uses a simple rythm than something more variable. It may be that I lose a sense of intrigue. I can also be the sense that if neither the rythm or the melody is going anywhere then the song seems like a treadmill. This is accentuated by the use of samples. One can't so easily fit a lead instrument and just allow it to move along while a repetitive canvas is played out by other supporting instruments. Anyhow this is turning into rather a lng and rambling comment so I'll wrap it up. I look forward to hearing more of your Patsy Cline series. I think I'll go and listen to some Jim Reeves :) Keep well John :)
Thanks so much Patrick, this was one of the songs that Bob Wesolowski who is the producer and husband of Mary Ann West had asked me to try to make it sound like a big band, so I overdubbed an alto and tenor saxophones, two trumpets with a trombone to try to give it big band sound.
PS, I broke out laughing when you referred to yourself as my little brother, that was hilarious. 😃🥃
Thanks again for your input and I wish you lived a little closer because then we could get together and play together😄🎺🎷