{"id":47,"date":"2011-06-04T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/site\/?p=47"},"modified":"2018-07-06T14:50:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T18:50:32","slug":"the-splinters-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"The Splinters Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J Johnson and I have been hanging out in my basement for a while shedding fiddle tunes. We debuted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpcopenmike.org\/site\/\">West Roxbury Open Mike<\/a> night and have played at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roslindaleopenmike.org\/\">Roslindale<\/a> too. One of these days, we&#8217;ll get more than 2 songs to play at a real gig. \ud83d\ude42 We typically include some form of improvisation after playing the melody a few times; and it&#8217;s fun to trade 4&#8217;s back and forth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-pi49TWfyoMM\/TeqgZMF_I2I\/AAAAAAAAH9g\/9C7vr2pfAKI\/s1600\/splinters3.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"214\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-pi49TWfyoMM\/TeqgZMF_I2I\/AAAAAAAAH9g\/9C7vr2pfAKI\/s320\/splinters3.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re making our way through the bluegrass top 20 tunes like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>St. Anne&#8217;s Reel<\/li>\n<li>Salt Creek<\/li>\n<li>Red Haired Boy<\/li>\n<li>Billy in the Lowground<\/li>\n<li>Whiskey Before Breakfast<\/li>\n<li>Cherokee Shuffle<\/li>\n<li>E.M.D.<\/li>\n<li>Blackberry Blossom<\/li>\n<li>Arkansas Traveler<\/li>\n<li>Soldier&#8217;s Joy<\/li>\n<li>Temperance Reel<\/li>\n<li>Prisoner&#8217;s Waltz (from Tone Poems 1)<\/li>\n<li>I Am Pilgrim<\/li>\n<li>Shady Grove<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We still want to add some more vocals and probably some more swing. We&#8217;ve played All of Me and Sweet Georgia Brown, for example, along with Minor Swing, which seem to be popular with the bluegrass\/newgrass set. I picked up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fiddlers-Fakebook-David-Brody\/dp\/0825602386\">Fiddler&#8217;s Fakebook<\/a> recently, so I&#8217;m ready to mine it for some of the more obscure tunes to go along with the fan favorites.<\/p>\n<p>We have been influenced by Doc Watson, Norman Blake, Tony Rice, David Grisman, Chris Thile, Bill Frisell, and Frank Zappa, among others.<\/p>\n<p>We put up a web site under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splintersmusic.com\/\">The Splinters<\/a> name. Check it out to listen to some of the basement tapes.<\/p>\n<p>Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J Johnson and I have been hanging out in my basement for a while shedding fiddle tunes. We debuted at the West Roxbury Open Mike night and have played at Roslindale too. One of these days, we&#8217;ll get more than &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/?p=47\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,71,7,68,13,72,112],"tags":[105,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisreckling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}