Just Gotta Crow!!

Subject: Just Gotta Crow!!
From: jeffp
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 10:33 AM

Forgive the horn-blowing, but I just can't help myself. I just returned from Irish Week at the Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, WV, where I studied fiddle with James Kelly. Last year when I was there, I took the Beginning Fiddle class with an excellent young fiddler named Brendan Callahan. Watch out for this kid, because he is destined for greatness. Anyway, last year I gave him a copy of a tune I wrote about 15 years ago. He was nice about it and said he was impressed. Well, this year he came up to me and told me he had played my tune at a gig in Philadelphia this spring! I feel validated as a budding tunesmith. Just had to share it with you guys. By the way, the tune was "The Rebel's Fancy," which is in the Mudcat Songbook and on Alan's MIDI site.

jeffp

Subject: RE: Just Gotta Crow!!
From: Wesley S
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 10:38 AM

Jeff - I can understand why you're pumped about. Good for you. Imagine how it will feel when you're sitting in an audience someday and hear someone performing your material. Keep up the good work.

Subject: RE: Just Gotta Crow!!
From: Pseudolus
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 10:39 AM

That's awesome!! It's one thing to have someone say that they enjoyed your song when YOU played it, but to like it enough to include it intheir own set is quite the compliment......congrats!

Frank

Subject: RE: Just Gotta Crow!!
From: Shanti
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 10:42 AM

Congratulations! Crow away! If I heard someone sing or play something I'd written, I'd be patting myself on the back so hard, I'd probably break my arm!

Subject: RE: Just Gotta Crow!!
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 10:44 AM

Jeffp,
You're forgiven. That is really exciting. Enjoy the moment.
Mary

Subject: RE: Just Gotta Crow!!
From: Jim the Bart
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 12:07 PM

Bravo!! Good going!!

Subject: RE: Just Gotta Crow!!
From: bbelle
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 12:19 PM

Jeff ... and who better to "crow" to than your mudcat buds, who will be excited for you!!

moonchild

Subject: RE: Just Gotta Crow!!
From: jeffp
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 12:26 PM

You got it, moonchild. It's so nice to be among kindred spirits.

jeffp

Subject: RE: Just Gotta Crow!!
From: Sean Belt
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 12:28 PM

Jeff, congratulations! This is the kind of crowing we can always stand around here. A great story!

- Sean

Subject: RE: Just Gotta Crow!!
From: Kim C
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 01:03 PM

Go Jeff! Go Jeff! Go Jeff!

Subject: RE: Just Gotta Crow!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 01:31 PM

Hey jeff, that's some fine news. And at a really wonderful place too. Haven't been there in 5 years, but its always been fantastic.

Couldn't happen to a better guy either!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Just Gotta Crow!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 01:34 PM

!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!

Thoise are ecstatic little jumping-up-and-down fireworks of excalmations--- ooo! Oooo! Oooo!

No doubt about it. Time to change your Mudcat name to JEFFP.

~S~

Subject: RE: Just Gotta Crow!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 01:36 PM

Sory! I got so exited I could not spel!

~S~

Subject: RE: Just Gotta Crow!!
From: Morticia
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 03:23 PM

Wow, we know someone who's famous!! Well done!!.....can we have your autograph? It'll be worth thousands in a year or two :)

Subject: RE: Just Gotta Crow!!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 03:50 PM

Hey, well done! Now all you have to do is give it a couple of years on the circuit and sure as eggs is chicken ovulations, someone will introduce it as traditional - THAT is when you do the internal trumpet tooting, such a great feeling.... happened to me with a ballad I wrote about 14 years ago - someone sang it back to me as a traditional Dorset song, and I laughed myself sick!!! Of course, I can't remember it word for word, neither can I track down a copy, but someone else, out there knows it.... Ahhhhh.

LTS

Subject: RE: Just Gotta Crow!!
From: jeffp
Date: 03 Aug 00 - 10:29 AM

Thanks everybody! I appreciate the good wishes. It's kinda nice to give something back to the tradition that has given so much to me. It's also nice to share something good with my Mudcat friends.

jeffp