Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie-youtube

Subject: RE: Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie-youtu
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 28 May 09 - 01:02 PM

Pat and Dan, yup. I'm kinda tall--about 6'7" in my prime, now down to about 6'5" due to the ravages of time. Still gumpy as hell.

Charles

Subject: RE: Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie-youtube
From: olddude
Date: 28 May 09 - 10:13 AM

A tall guy with a tall stack of songs . Great voice, great old timey style of playing and I love the claw hammer banjo that our Seed can bring to the table. DEM BOY's CAN PLAY

Subject: RE: Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie-youtube
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 May 09 - 10:37 PM

Stout? Nah............he's a long and lanky type of guy.....Must be about 6 and a half foot tall or so........What are you Seed.....I mean tall......Cause I know what you are from Garg telling me for so many years.....................

Spaw

Subject: RE: Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie-youtube
From: The Sandman
Date: 27 May 09 - 05:18 PM

stout fellow.

Subject: RE: Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie-youtube
From: olddude
Date: 26 May 09 - 05:36 PM

Well if I get a chance I would love to
I sometime get out to San Diego on business ... hopefully they will ask me out again sometime

Thanks much my friend
DAN

Subject: RE: Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie-youtu
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 26 May 09 - 04:54 PM

Don, any time you make it to the west coast, let me know. We (the Jammers and I) are members of a large, invitation only jam that meets every Monday night at the home of one of our three original members (I'm one of the three). Last night's regular jam was our annual Memorial Day party, so we started with drinks and snacks at 5:00, got great Chicago style pizza and other foods at about 6:30, started making music soon after 7:00, and played until 10:00, finishing about an hour earlier than usual, thanks to the early start. In all, there were about 12 of our regular members plus family members and guests. I wish I had learned your Memorial Day song for the occasion, but it'll take a bit longer than that. All the jammers except Clark, our mandolin player, were there, plus Walter on fiddle and piano, his wife Milly, on piano, Charlie on guitar and Sally on autoharp--the other two original members, Josh--a multi-instrumentalist on banjo and guitar, Karl--another multi-instrumentalist who learned banjo 50 years ago from Pete Seeger--on mandolin and banjo, Nancy on vocals and spoons, and jammer bassist Michael's wife Gini on vocals (she does a dynamite version of "Our Town."

The only song we did from the album was "Beware, Oh Take Care," but I introduced something I'm working on for the next album, my setting of the Robert W. Service poem
"The Cremation of Sam McGee." For the intro, I sang only the first two verses--I have slightly different melodies for them, something I will continue for each pair of verses through the poem. I can imagine the fun it will be recording it, getting Courtney to make her breaks creepier and creepier as the recording progresses. Once I get the others strong on the melody, I might play only harmonica in the recording, so Courtney and I can try to outdo each other with the increasingly insane breaks. Courtney and I--and Walter, our other fiddler--play great duet and trio breaks together.

Anyway, you have a standing invitation to join the group (and I hope in the next few weeks to learn at least "Lightning Road" and "Katie's Song" and possibly "Appalachia" and who knows what else, and teach them to the others by the time you make it out...and if you should make it out on a weekend, you might find us working on the next album and you could join us in that and the following Monday group jam.

Charles

Subject: RE: Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie-youtube
From: olddude
Date: 26 May 09 - 04:19 PM

Charles
I just love this song and the way you do it. It really does have that 1930's feel to the sound, like the way it should have. Great job every song on your CD is great. Someday I would like to sit down and play a song with you guys ... and thanks for your very kind help and comments my friend

Dan

Subject: RE: Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie-youtu
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 26 May 09 - 11:40 AM

Actually, Pat, Don just told me he put it on--in his wife Linda's account. I still haven't figured that one out. But now that I have a presence there, I might do more than just watch and add things to my favorites. I'd do a solo video except I always screw up when I turn the camera on...the tunes, not the video. Besides, my cameras won't record stereo.

Charles

Subject: RE: Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie-youtube
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 May 09 - 10:14 PM

Aw c'mon Seed.....fess up. I figure you posted that yourself and the only reason there is no video is because your tall, lanky-ass self won't fit on the screen!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie-youtu
From: Janie
Date: 25 May 09 - 09:48 PM

Charles,

As I listened to the YouTube presentation I was transported back to my late teens and early twenties, to music on the back porch at parties in West Virginia, and wonderful small festivals like BJ Hunter's Old-Time music festivals. What you are doing is what I call "the real deal."

Subject: RE: Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie-youtu
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 25 May 09 - 03:50 PM

The CD is still available at the same price. I even pay shipping.

Charles

By the way, I think the tune was put on YouTube by one of my dog park friends--that's the only Linda to whom I gave a CD.

Subject: RE: Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie-youtu
From: Janie
Date: 25 May 09 - 02:20 PM

My kind of music, Charles. Loved it.

Janie

Subject: RE: Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie-youtu
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 25 May 09 - 01:22 PM

Dan, did you put it on YouTube or find it there? Either way, thanks for the link.

Charles

Subject: RE: Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie-youtube
From: olddude
Date: 24 May 09 - 02:01 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie-youtu
From: Genie
Date: 14 May 09 - 06:09 PM

Sounds great, Dan! Thanks for putting it up at YT.

Genie

Subject: RE: Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie-youtube
From: olddude
Date: 14 May 09 - 03:05 PM

Charles and his friend can really cook. He sent me his CD they did at the Valley Jam ... loved every song he did

great stuff folks, keep em coming for sure

thanks Kat for fixing the link title

Dan

Subject: RE: Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie-youtube
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 May 09 - 02:00 PM

Just done and pressed, offered for free on CD! CLICK HERE!

Subject: RE: Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie-youtube
From: frogprince
Date: 14 May 09 - 01:56 PM

Have they recorded anything more recent? Surely that cut has to be pre-1936 at the latest! : )

Subject: RE: Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie-youtube
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 May 09 - 01:31 PM

Sure is!! Thanks, Bseed! Great video, olddude, thanks

Subject: Mudcats own bseed playing Woody Guthrie
From: olddude
Date: 14 May 09 - 10:43 AM

Mudcat's own Charles Kratz and friends playing Woody Guthrie's
"I ain't got no home in the world anymore"

Charles Kratz and Friends


I love it ... thanks Charles, every song on Charles CD is great