Bluegrass rauschpfeife

To the Heaton Mersey Sports & Social Club for a gig by our friends Michelle Holding & Bonz The Accompanist. This gig happened to coincide with the launch of their new CD, 'Family Values', with a splendid cover by Bonz and the funkiest CD-Rs I've ever seen.

 

A few weeks beforehand Michelle had asked me to take the rauschpfeife along, and to be ready to play some 'bluegrass rauschpfeife in G'.

 

So I did, and I did - two choruses of total improvisation in G over a bluegrass riff, in the middle of a Gillian Welch song. It seemed to work in a surreal sort of Renaissance / Down Home / Lancashire crossover style, and sadly I don't think anyone recorded this moment of musical history: great fun, real seat of the pants stuff on the part of all concerned.

 

I'm also optimistic that this blog post will quickly become the very first result when you Google the phrase 'bluegrass rauschpfeife'. Let's face I suspect I have the field pretty much to myself ...