Posting audio of St. Pat's In The Afternoon

[Jody Stecher]

 I tried video recording St Patrick's Day In The Morning in the afternoon. I should have known better.  I got a headless banjo player with bad tone or banjoless face with better tone or other variations of Not Too Terribly Good and it took an hour.  So here's a Garage Band sound recording which incorporates all the best worst features of the video. No head *or* body,  bad tone at no extra cost *and* I crash and burn at the end. I've recorded a medley of St Pat and Joe Cooley's 3 part setting of The Ship In Full Sail. 

[Adam]

You crash and burn really well! And I look forward to more diary entries as you struggle with the video recorder ... :)

But seriously ... I don't know how you would like us to hear this recording, Jody, but I for one found it delightful. As I said about your bullfrog rendition of Grimshaw, I love the way you play around with a tune - or tunes, in this case. Perhaps you intended this recording just to be "funny" - as you did the bullfrog one - but I have to say that, while your playing generally does have a playful humor to it, I find it to be really charming.

Sorry to disappoint. :-P

I confess that the name Joe Cooley is new to me ... I see on Amazon (US & UK) there is an mp3 album called THE SHIPS ARE SAILING being released this week ... I might have to check that out ... Anything more you can tell us about him?

All the best,
Adam

[Jody Stecher]

Grimshaw's #5o version #2 had a bullfrog tone, the intro from Paul Eno's polka "Cupid's Arrow" (an exercise with a prelude?) which transmogrified into Malagassy Meanderings. I was just being silly.

The two jigs were played in earnest. I meant to play well but didn't. But as I had already written the text of my message and had spent an hour with the failed video and several times through the audio I decided to post *something*. the folks here are a supportive and positive minded bunch so I figured it might be heard as I meant to play it. Which brings me to Joe Cooley.

Joe Cooley was a very expressive and inventive 2 row button accordion player from County Galway. I met him in San Francisco in the late 1960s and it was from him I got my first exposure to Irish traditional music. He had a few unusual tunes but he particularly shone on his versions of standards. He always had something extra, a different turn of phrase, a third part to a two part tune, an unexpected ornament, and he played with great spirit and verve. Joe Cooley used to say "it wouldn't be Irish traditional music if it didn't have a few old mistakes in it" so there you go.

J. Adam Latham said:

You crash and burn really well! And I look forward to more diary entries as you struggle with the video recorder ... :)

But seriously ... I don't know how you would like us to hear this recording, Jody, but I for one found it delightful. As I said about your bullfrog rendition of Grimshaw, I love the way you play around with a tune - or tunes, in this case. Perhaps you intended this recording just to be "funny" - as you did the bullfrog one - but I have to say that, while your playing generally does have a playful humor to it, I find it to be really charming.

Sorry to disappoint. :-P

I confess that the name Joe Cooley is new to me ... I see on Amazon (US & UK) there is an mp3 album called THE SHIPS ARE SAILING being released this week ... I might have to check that out ... Anything more you can tell us about him?

All the best,
Adam

[Adam]

Thanks, Jody. I'll definitely have to give a listen to some of Joe Cooley's recordings.

Best,
Adam

[Trapdoor2]

Aye, very cool there Jody. Your garage sounds pretty good. It is always nice to hear new tunes and Cooley's is a fine one. I'd post my version of St. Pat's this weekend but I'm headed for Nashville's Old Time Stringband weekend Sat. morning and am deep into practicing my own OT crash and burn session. ;-)

http://www.nashvilleoldtime.org/BUW/

[marc dalmasso]

c 'est très bon , Jody ; i like the " final "

[Adam]

Well said, Rob.

[Jody Stecher]

thanks for the kind words everyone. I'm in Seattle right now visiting my 94 year old mother and my "baby" sister.