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But let's go ahead and dive into the music here.
And we're going to listen to Daydream from Charlie Crown, song is featuring Transviolet.
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So that is Jessica Lynn Whitty and I'm willing to bet she tracked that here in Nashville
despite the fact that she lives out in Tacoma we will ask her that on Sunday when she joins us for the Phantom Power Artist Hour
the name of that song is Keep Going and it is in D minor the Nigel Tufnol Key for those of you who have seen the movie and can appreciate that reference you are welcome
so the first thing that sticks out to me is the intro with respect to the title of the song and how the music and the production
draw you out name of the song is Keep Going and she stretches you out and starts to draw you out over that D minor progression
and I really like it when the title and the music go hand in hand I think that was intentional
notice how when she is setting up the chorus right I mean we're in D minor and in the verse she's going off that major seventh chord
the seventh note in the scale of D minor of course C and uses the first inversion of G
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right but notice how she turns you around by going with a major five chord and a major chord which stands in contrast with that natural C
in the scale so it's a if you are in D minor that is a major five chord or if you are in F major which is the relative major of D minor
you are taking that three chord which is traditionally minor and making it major that is a really smart little trick there
to add some tension to get yourself back into the main key love that trick that's a that's an old country classic
that's an old country classic right there as my buddy Eddie Weedo would say and she uses that in several instances in the song and it is fantastic
I also love how the bass line will pull you around as I mentioned earlier using the first inversion of that four chord
rather than holding down all the way to the G the bass player kind of floats around off the three of the four
and pulls you back into the tonic that way smart don't give it all away right
this song actually reminds me a lot in terms of production of Toby Keith Restonpiece and Blake Shelton too
big big production all of the right instruments right I mean like you could change the key on this and give it to Toby or give it to Blake to sing absolutely
but all the right instruments all the right production points great rolling banjo great fiddle great telecaster rip in there
love the double time at the end what is it like two songs in a row with a double time chorus right by the way
for those of you drummers and bass players out there that love to play jokes on guitar players
take one of your songs that you normally do and just at the end stretch it out and do a double time and see what the guitar player does
that's always one of my favorite jokes to play with the bridge sorry for the side part with the bridge I appreciate the punches that she threw in to break everything up
nice nice change nice dichotomy and going back to this whole double time feel this is great for a large venue type setting like you could stretch this thing out
just rip some massive solos right I mean she's got a fiddle player on stage got a couple of guitar players on stage
everybody could be you know full on Leonard Skinner you know rip this thing out for an ending so that is a very smart choice there to wrap up the song
now she's got a boatload of songs in the space and as I mentioned earlier despite not living here in Nashville
she does a really good job of staying current with Nashville production I believe she comes out here to track all of her songs we'll get into that more on Sunday
but she's definitely got a solid crew around her and if you check out her stuff on wave lake man it's just a boilerplate of great country tonage
great country tonage that is Jessica Lynn Whitty so let's stick around in the
countryfied zone and let's get a little bit more countryfied we are going all the way out to Humboldt County
and we're going to check out a blue grass band by the name of the no good redwood ramblers
and this song is called the weekend song let's check it out
and this song is called the weekend song that is a very smart choice
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Love that! Absolutely love that!
Do you think that that song sounds simple?
I would ask if you do, I'd be very curious as to why you do
I think that bluegrass gets a bad rap
in the same way that I think heavy metal gets a bad rap
let me try to explain
and there's a couple of different points here
point number one is the more people you add into a band, the harder it is
because you have less room to move as a musician
so your parts better be very simple, very solid and focused solely on the song
which they should always be but it's playing in a trio has its challenges
because you have so much more space to fill up
but when you are playing in a band with four, five, six, seven people
your parts get smaller and that is hard for a lot of people to understand
and a lot of people to take especially when you get better and better
playing your instrument over the years and then you step into a large band
and you are asked to play less and it takes a lot of maturity to do that
this is a great example of that
like the bass is very simple right?
like one, two, three, four
there's two beautiful parts to the bass
like one, the fact that this dude is in the pocket
and number two, if you listen to the notes, he's choosing how he pulls the band around
leads them around
great playing
notice how in this setting the mandolin and the guitar act kind of like a high hat in a snare
you know, whereas the bass player is acting like the kick drum
right?
and metal gets a bad rap in that in the same way
because people think that just because it's so loud that it's not difficult
well, metal players are damn near synonymous with some of the best classical musicians
in terms of shredding like there's not a whole hell of a lot of difference between a great metal player
and somebody first chair with Nashville Symphony
like the primary difference is distortion
quite frankly in my opinion
in terms of riffs and solos and ripping and things like that
so that's the first point
it takes a lot of maturity to play in a larger type band and when you're a good player to play less
the other thing that is really hard to do is to be authentic
and sometimes I think bluegrass gets a bad rap because
because it's so clean because it's so acoustic and quite frankly because
maybe sometimes the singer's accent or the way things are vocalized
people don't take it as seriously as they should
this is really a great example not only of bluegrass but they have a nice modern take on it as well
I would encourage you guys to go over to their site on Waifle
they've got like a full record out and it's there's some really fantastic stuff on there
sorry arey is a nice bad about cocaine
it kind of had me laughing
they did a great cover the Sam Cook song
good time
five horse apocalypse great melody great chord structure very non-traditional in California chrome
is probably my favorite that's like a full on gallop of the bluegrass tune
but these guys really do a nice job of being a little bit outside of the traditional bluegrass arrangements
if you go back and listen to the verses like they stretched out every single verse every time
and it was done with humor nicely like at the end of the first verse ends with this time
the end of the second verse ends with have the words to the end with the end of the third one comes with
and the dog and the fourth one is and every Sunday it's like every verse had a nice little tail on it
and you typically don't hear that if you go back like if you want to put your effnomusicology
hadn't studied the music of apolachia it was very simple and this they have they have added some modern complexities to it
one of the things that they did honor of course is the structure
you want to call it a verse or course whatever two a sections in a banjo solo two a sections in a philos in a fiddle solo
bridge with great harmonies and and by the way the chord changes in the solos were great too
a bridge with great harmonies which is really like a c-section and then they'll break it down again and do acapella
the mix is fantastic they could have put on a little bit more reverb and maybe made it sound a little more
I don't know radio friendly but this is to me the mix was just absolutely right on point with the style
but not too dry not too wet very nicely done and I really like the lead singers voice
you know I've talked about this on other occasions especially when I've looked at punk bands
you know I think sometimes we get caught up on like you know gosh this is the singer sound is good as sting
or John Mayer or pop or rady what is it really needed like what's more important is is the singer hitting the notes
and conveying all of the proper emotion and is this is the vocal tone perfect for the genre
I would check all three boxes on that one for this singer this is this is great stuff like I I would love to see this band
I would love to see this band live I bet you they tear up clubs right and you know what would be really cool
and really efficient is have this band open up for a punk band because these guys walk on stage
all acoustic couple of mics they can tear it up get everybody riled up then a punk punk band comes in and they burn it down
it's matter of fact these guys should do a double bill with FM rodeo I'm just saying
so I hope you go over two wave lake and check out the no good redwood ramblers they've got a full record up there
and it's really good stuff it's really good stuff this is a great example of bluegrass in americana
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