The Dumb Things that Hold Me Back
Sure I'm tired. Sure I've basically worked from 8 a.m. this morning until like, five minutes ago when I sent yet ANOTHER email to a client out of state (yeah, that work at home stuff is NOT what it's cracked up to be!). And I spent an hour on the phone with my brother and his family catching up.
So I was in this zone, the "my day is incomplete" zone, and came across this absolutely wonderful vid of Casey D playing with Noam Pikelny (who was rather underutilized at last year's John Cowan show at The Kent Stage) and the venerable Rob Ickes on dobro.
Why oh WHY am I not picking up my fiddle at this minute? Because it's late and I'm tired? Because I have to be up and get my kids ready to take their dad out to breakfast? Because because because?
I have too many excuses. Casey Driessen is a part of my little world, he's unknowingly saved my soul on more than one occasion and remains a spirit-lifter and an inspiration, a soul friend. Would he be too tired to pick up his fiddle at 11:30 on a Friday night?
I guess I'll watch this one more time and try to figure it out on my son's fiddle. For a few minutes, anyway.
Hope wherever you are, you're having a good weekend. Mine includes delivering my son to his first away-from-home, weeklong experience at an academic camp. I'm elated, terrified, and well, I'll blog more about that later. Peace out, readers.
posted by Mando Mama @ 10:26 PM
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3 Comments:
That's a fine piece, a beauty. I love the old world sound of it.
I hear you on the work at home thing. Seems like it's round the clock.
Hey now, MM! Glad you found some energy with that vid. I love that eerie sound and slow pace. Very mellow and provocative at the same time.
And yeah, had a nice little time driving home from the D Sunday morning. I drove with the windows open and the radio/CD off until I got to the first rest area on the OH Turnpike just to enjoy the feeling of freedom and reflect on a nice evening.
Hope you and A had a similarly refreshing ride home.
You are both right, that old world "eerie" sound really is lovely and I can't help but try to learn it. Mando is going better than fiddle. There are little crooked spots that I need to hear over and over before I get them.
Blu, if anyone gets the work at home thing, it's you! What were we THINKING?!
Mr. Bains, so nice to see you! We had a lovely trip to the other D and back, got the backstory on Orville and Wilbur, and left G a full four hours away at a seriously Lutheranesque university. So far I haven't totally freaked out. Yet. But A was awesome, a good travel companion. Thank Shiva!
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