Bellicose Bumpkin

I’ll be playing at the Flat Iron Cafe on Saturday, March 27 2010 from 7:30 to 10:30. Please try and make it. The last gig was a lot of fun with a great turn out. If you have a limited time window, or tolerance for listening, come a little later since things tend to thin out as the evening wears on.

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What: Gig at the Flat Iron Cafe
Where: 444 Centre Street – Middleboro, MA
When: Sat. March 27, 2010 7:30 – 10:30

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Facebook users can RSVP on my facebook event or on the Flat Iron’s event – or on both if you dare. You can see my profile here.
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I’ve been working on some new material and experimenting with some new picking techniques. I’m playing around with a style adapted from clawhammer guitar. Clawhammer is a very percussive style where all notes are played with a down stroke using only your finger(usually index) and thumb. The index finger strikes the string with the nail while the thumb sort of plucks with the fleshy part (down stroke) – kind of pulling it down and out. The nail makes a clicking noise when it hits the string that when done right produces a unique sound.
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Here are a couple of videos from the last gig. Quality is not great – audio contains a lot of noise from the table where it was filmed from – but it still gives a fair idea of the sort of stuff I do. The first video is a jazzed up acoustic version of the Monkees song Papa Gene’s Blues and the second one is a subdued version of Little Bird Of Heaven – and song with an old time feel from the Reeltime Travellers.