Happy Traum - Sitting on Top of the World - Live at McCabe's

Jim Kweskin dropped by for the last few songs of Happy's set.
Happy Traum Live at McCabe's 1-18-2014

[@JoseMartinez-qf3rk]

Beautiful guys !!!! Salludos desde Puerto Rico, gretting from PR

[@quirtdrozario856]

Fantastic !!!! Just love it.

[@lizbethsdad]

Excellent!!!

[@Stratotao]

Really love this one!

[@anneberkeley7411]

Bravo boys!!!! Fantastic!!!!

[@johnhiscutt1853]

awesome

[@Catman7442]

Wow. Such fun they're having!

[@geodesy2009]

Well done guys. Doc would have been proud.

[@pbealle1]

Great stuff, boys....

[@ericcaravag4614]

WHAT A GREAT DUO REAL PICK,N AND SINGING

[@matthewberryessa7110]

Let those Peaches be ..

[@shitehawk1969]

There's cool and there's cool this is Cool.

[@MikeAgranoff]

Traum and Kweskin will be performing at the Minstrel Acoustic Concert Series in Morristown, NJ on November 14, 2014. See www.Minstrel.FolkProject.org.

[@mccurryburg]

this song has a long, rich history en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting_on_Top_of_the_World

[@georgeryan4496]

This a great song and great players. However, they sometimes violate an idea put forth in a Homespun video, Playing Well with Others, by Mike Dowling and Pat Donahue, that two guitars should not fight for “space”. In other words, when one person is singing or taking a solo, the other should simplify his accompaniment and moderate the volume of their playing. Not that they are likely to ask me for advice!

[@jtoddbrown]

George Ryan, you make a good point. During Jim Kweskin's brief solo, from 2:40 to 3:00, Happy Traum's accompaniment is muted and simple (as Donahue and Dowling recommend), and it complements the solo very effectively. Elsewhere, while Happy is singing and soloing, Jim's comping is a little louder and busier; most of his fills fall into the gaps quite nicely, but once in a while one of them clashes a bit with something Happy is doing. In an impromptu performance without much rehearsal, it's probably very hard to gauge just how much to play, and when. Even with a few flaws, still a great performance from both of them.