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Double Bass Bass Playing in Folk Music

#21
Ok, well now I've heard about 15 songs so I have alittle more information. So, to my ears I here a few things. The Blues, Celtic/Irish music and Jazz. Oh yeah and alittle rock (60's blues/rock). Im not sure why you say that jazz and rock wouldn't be useful to you, just the tone of the bass is pure growly jazz and the arrangments sound very rock to me. But, I realize we hear different things so another idea I have is the band Lunasa. You might find some interesting ideas there.
 
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#22
mcnaire2004 said:
Depends on what type of church your playing at...
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But....we're talking about folk music, right?

You might want to check out or already have checked out some Piazzolla stuff for a classical/folk blend. Lúnasa is fantastic. If you like that I recommend having a listen to 'the bothy band', especially the 'Old Hag you have Killed me' album. While there's no bass, it's really great, great music, and is in quite simlar to some of the Lunasa stuff, if a bit less experimental.
 
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Conor MacCarthy said:
But....we're talking about folk music, right?

You might want to check out or already have checked out some Piazzolla stuff for a classical/folk blend. Lúnasa is fantastic. If you like that I recommend having a listen to 'the bothy band', especially the 'Old Hag you have Killed me' album. While there's no bass, it's really great, great music, and is in quite simlar to some of the Lunasa stuff, if a bit less experimental.
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But he did mention it was for a church group, right?
 
#27
assuming you mean Danny Thompson...
a big part of what made pentangle so original was that they were made up of a bassist and drummer who were previously jazz musicians, with the guitarists and singer who were folk musicians. Danny Thompson went on to work more in the folk world, and thats what he's famous for, but prior to pentangle he was mainly a jazzer. To my ears, Mingus is the biggest influence on what he's playing. You could argue that their approach was a precursor to the whole ECM thing, in that they were finding a way to make creative, improvised music that used american elements but was rooted in european music.
I love his bass tone...
 
#28
Danny Thompson. Played for Donovan, currently you can hear him with Richard Thompson, No relation as far as I know. He doubles but his upright work is dead on. refer to "Live from Austion Texas" real good stuff, trio. Also Fergus Marsh with Bruce Cockburn. Plays it all but does some nice urb and stick work.
 
#37
oliebrice said:
I really, really reccomend Danny Thompson, who can be found on records by Pentangle, John Martyn, Nick Drake, Richard Thompson and countless others...
wondeful player, with a gorgeous tone. he was the first person to make me want to play the double bass.
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I can only endorse this heartily - check out this earlier work and later (Whatever, Whatever Next, etc.) in which he tackles folk, jazz, Scandanavian folk tunes...

Still my favourite bassist after all the years...
 
#38
It depends on what you call "folk". Bill Lee, Spike Lee's father, played on lots of Hootenany era folk recordings:

Odetta, Peter, Paul and Mary, even played electric with Dylan on "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" lots of other artists too here he backed up Gorden Lightfoot on this tune

 

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