Jack Rose - September 17, 2007 - Florence, MA - Ecstatic Yod

[@ilmatzo]

we miss you jack

[@mattsowellmusic]

Matzo Farias we sure do

[@jellikit1939]

"Bells" off Dr. Ragtime & His Pals. The full set is: 1. Bells 2. Gage Blues 3. Fishtown Flower 4. Dusty Grass 5. Sundogs (CGCGCD tuning)

[@isabelgoyer6140]

Brilliant. So lucky to have his work and so sad that he's gone way too soon. Thank you for posting this! I grew up just down the street from this place too!

[@AugustOster]

Awesome video, what a great guitarist full of imagination. Really amazing stuff. Thank you!

[@Darren-D.C-Cross]

thankyou . this is wonderful.

[@pipotherium]

amazing stuff!

[@KRISMARIEWALKER]

sorry. I didn't post that last comment. Someone must have been on my account. I've never used the word hogwash in my life.

[@germsgermsgerms]

It is a good word, though.

[@sunaJH]

Oh hogwash (I couldn't resist)

[@RobertSlover]

the last tune is astounding. an improvisation i assume? thanks a lot for uploading hard to find video to try and mimic his technique.

[@jellikit1939]

He does a version of this called Sundogs on the "By the Fruits you Shall Know the Roots" compilation album. He does a song of the same name on "I Do Play Rock and Roll," but it's different.

[@RobertSlover]

@@jellikit1939 thanks man!

[@Poetnsen]

Cool! :D

[@anotherone4806]

6:44 11:24

[@blairlong4281]

Can anyone recommend any Jack Rose "landmarks" in Philly?

[@mattsowellmusic]

Blair Long yes, Jonny Brenda’s, Dipinto guitars, Oster instruments, the Philadelphia Record Exchange, The Rocket Cat (the old one)

[@Dbmaiorana]

Anyone know what kind of guitar he's playing?

[@KCBarr1]

Looks like a Martin OO model.

[@tcoakley2265]

@@KCBarr1 Looks and sounds like a Weissenborn to me. A number of different makers produce these.

[@KCBarr1]

@@tcoakley2265 I was referring to the guitar he was playing conventionally. His lap steel is definitely a Weissenborn or something similar.

[@tcoakley2265]

Yes, had only watched early part of video, when I posted my comment. Didn't realise at that stage that there was a second instrument involved. Does look like a Martin 00.

[@isaacdodson1565]

Tuning?

[@bptdns22]

What kind of music is it?

[@uglyawesome]

Wolfölsky American Primitive Guitar

[@perrysar5954]

Not the most fun loving happy go lucky guy

[@alexv3266]

I think he was sort of bummed that he never escaped the Fahey comparisons. Back when fingerstyle guitar was all the rage with the underground set, he was a massive fish in a very small pond, and to a lot of people in that scene he was God. He had amazing tone and could swing, but melodically every one of his songs was either a Fahey clone or a Basho clone---or with the Weissenborn, either Fahey or someone like Dr. Kamala Shankar----if you want to see someone kill it along the same lines---kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYLOZaBngL6Zpas. I actually love his playing, but never understood all the worship he got. I think that Glenn Jones, while not having Jack's swagger and tone, is a way more interesting guitarist, same with Sean Smith, James Blackshaw----and to listen to someone who totally escaped Fahey's shadow---Charlie Schmidt. Considering that Schmidt rerecorded a Fahey record and wasn't found out until later, then put out a record that sounded nothing like Fahey, while mining the same territory, and was totally overlooked and never talked about in the same way as Jack, always amazed me.

[@prharrington]

Thanks for the recommendations - just been listening to some James Blackshaw. Great discovery!! How about some William Tyler for that list? Too 'modern'? Thanks again for the referals!!

[@KRISMARIEWALKER]

hogwash

[@staticwavelength]

+Kristie Walker jack rose could have played circles around you