Art Thieme - Lone Prairie

Subject: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: olddude
Date: 28 Nov 10 - 06:00 PM

The great Art Thieme for me doing the best version of this song I ever heard

Lone Prairie

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Nov 10 - 08:23 PM

I cannot believe this, but I do not remember hearing Art's version of this before now! I know I must have it...maybe I am losing it.:-)

Anyway, THANKS, I LOVE IT!!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: olddude
Date: 28 Nov 10 - 09:21 PM

Kat if you don't have it I will email it to you, just let me know

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: olddude
Date: 28 Nov 10 - 09:35 PM

The guys picking is amazing, you can hear how he keeps the bass going on that 9 string of his while working the highs .. incredible work I think

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Nov 10 - 10:03 PM

Delicious, and a markedly different version from what I've heard before.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 12:53 AM

Kat, I haven't got it, either! & as far as I know, I've got all the Fine Art.

sandra

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: meself
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 01:30 AM

Yeah, great stuff. Similar to a version I know from Manitoba.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 06:47 AM

Art could recite the Manhattan phone book and I'd listen. He does it all just right.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: olddude
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 09:21 AM

His Western Vol 1 CD. Art does old dog blue, it is a 12 minute session, after Blue he immediately goes into Lone Prairie

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: olddude
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 02:54 PM

Art's giving us pickers a lesson on how it is done for sure. For me this is Art at his very best. There is no song he doesn't do well but this one for me hits right in the soul

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 03:13 PM

Sandra, thanks, I thought I was losing it for a minute there! I know I've listened to his Old Dog Blue, so I am going to have to go check all of my Art Thieme, of which I *thought* had everything and make double sure I am not losing it.:-)

Thanks, Dan!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: olddude
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 03:22 PM

Art just gave me an incredible live CD Kat It is called "Art Thieme Live at Winfield" do you have that one?

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: gnu
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 03:38 PM

Seconded!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: open mike
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 03:49 PM

great--thanks for posting..i am on dialup right now so not able to see it at the moment...what is he playing that has 9 strings??!!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: olddude
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 04:02 PM

Art didn't like the bass on a 12 string Martin so he drilled holes in his 6 string Martin and made a 9 string !! Holy Cow

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 07:29 PM

Dan, I've also got the Winfield concert on CD - Art once sent me a gi-normous MP3 of recordings of concerts -

What a treasure from a National Living Treasure!

sandra

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 07:54 PM

Fine stuff, Art: Hope you drop by and read these wonderful comments.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: olddude
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 08:07 PM

He is singing the song, a live performance, keeping the bass line for his time and not missing a note, then he lets the highs of his 9 string guitar sing the melody along with him vocally and again not missing a note. Amazing work fella

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: olddude
Date: 29 Nov 10 - 08:18 PM

I play a lot of Appalachian music (my roots) it is fast, the picking can be complex with a lot of change ups and rolls, but sometime the picking on a simple melody can be far more challenging to get right. Art just gave a lesson on how it should be done to this picker

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 04:46 PM

Interesting guitar sound - sounds a bit like a delay pedal, or light phase. I notice in the picture he has two pick shields - one each side of the sound hole. presumably for Richie Havens style attack. Was he using a pick there between thumb and index, and then his fingers?

Not sure why the bloke in the song didn't want to be buried on the prairie. You'd biodegrade like smoke out there.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: olddude
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 05:37 PM

He finger picks only, metal picks, never flat picked in his life

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 30 Nov 10 - 06:20 PM

Oh! I would LOVE to have Art's "Live at Winfield" CD. We attend the Winfield Music Fest every year, but Art hasn't played there in many years, so I've never heard him live--He's still a legend at Winfield, of course. Art, we miss you.

Any suggestions where I might buy a copy? Does Camsco have it?

Thanks,
Lin

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: Art Thieme
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 06:49 PM

Lin and all---first, Dan!
Thanks for putting this song up here. My version of "Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie" was included on a cassette issued by an NPR radio show in Ohio--I don't recall the city. It was recorded by them at a concert I did in the area. The host of the program that put that cassette together was Bill Munger. --- I took that track and included it on a bootleg self-made two CD package I put together on my computer called Art Thieme--the Westering Songs. It was all western and cowboy songs from tapes of live shows, and LPs and CDs of mine over the years.

Well, I do guess I must've sent that set to Dan OldDude somewhere along the way. If anyone has it from me, feel free to copy it to send to anyone you know who might enjoy it. I've no idea who I sent it to as my recent memory and other stuff has been messed up big time by my MS.


As with my photos on line, all I care about it passing on some of what I was able to do; just to say thank you to the folk world that gave me a home for so long. I don't want pay for any of that as I must stay broke so Medicaid here in our state will pay for Carol's medications. --- Such is life without a single-payer aspect of the Healthcare legislation. ---- A.T.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 07:32 PM

Art has a penetrating and relaxed powerful voice.

His bass voice has that special cutting edge which gives the words the clarity of a tenor.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: olddude
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 09:00 PM

You are very much loved Art by everyone. And not just for your music but because of who you are inside my friend.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: maeve
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 09:05 PM

Exactly right, Dan.

Art, thank you for your generosity and wonderful music.

Maeve

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: Art Thieme
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 10:51 PM

About the time that song was taped during my show, I was dealing with putting a dear aunt into a nursing home. It was all that could be done at the time. She did NOT want to be there at all. But we could not do anything else. So, we told her what she wanted to hear, and eventually got her in there. The first week she decked a nurse with a right cross. The home said she was being tossed out and they pretty much put her on the sidewalk. We drove 300 miles in the middle of the night to find her another nursing home---a much better fit. --- Eventually, she let us know how she had come to see it was the best place for her with all her medical needs.

THAT is why "Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie" became important to me. We told my Aunt, my mother's twin, what she wanted to hear. Then we did what we practically had to do.------The cowboys told their friend they'd not bury him out there, but THEN
they did the only thing they could--they buried him there; then took his horse and his rope and his boots.

Art

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: Art Thieme
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 11:40 PM

Lin,
That recording of mine "Art Thieme--Live In Winfield" was a cassette that the Walnut Valley Association put out as a benefit for us when I spent a decade--the 1990s--having four spinal surgeries for many symptoms that, in 1997, finally turned out to actually be Multiple Sclerosis. (Mayo Clinic diagnosed it right!)

Anyhow, I did put that cassette onto a home-made bootleg CD and sent it to some people. E-mail me or whatever.

The recording was made on the old Stage #3 in 1984. Bob Redford was behind it--and I heartily thank him and Bobby Pangle and everyone for doing that. The production was done by our old friend Cathy Fink.

Art

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Dec 10 - 11:50 PM

Thanks for more info on the recordings, Art. Rog and I are both thrilled to learn of the Westering CDs and the Winfield one, too. I honestly don't think there is anyone whom we'd rather listen to than you on a regular basis. As I've often said you are Fine Art and we are lucky to have you among us and so generous, too.

As to staying broke...there oughta be a law!

All of our love to you and Carol,

kat & Rog

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 02 Dec 10 - 02:31 AM

Art, you are a treasure AND a sweetheart. I've PM'd you with my email addy and would really enjoy hearing from you.

Stage 3 is located in the same place, I believe, but has been rebuilt and has a much better roof over it for the performers' benefit. Still open seating for the audience, as is Stage 2. And still a fantastic amount of wonderful music being played everywhere.

Wish I could have heard you there and then.

Lin

Subject: RE: Art Thieme - Lone Prairie
From: Art Thieme
Date: 02 Dec 10 - 12:53 PM

Lin, Kat,
I'll be in touch with you soon.
Art