Topic: Dan Gellert and Ry Cooder

[uncle bud]

Here's something you don't see every day:

http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,1695796111001_2117513,00.html

[eric]

Damn...

[RobBob]

Ole Dan has more funk in his music than a lot of the younger folks trying to get it on.  This is great.  They sound good together.

[Parlor Picker]

Those guys are such natural players that the rhythms just fall off them... Nice old Gibson Ry's playing as well.  Great stuff.

[uncle bud]

Ry should be dragging Dan out of that pub in Dayton and straight into a recording studio. It's high time we had another Dan Gellert record.

[Mr.OMuck]

I'm sure that'll be one of the outcomes for Mr. Gellert. Boy ya just gotta like that Ry Cooder don'tcha? Seems like a really good fellow...a lefty too! On the political spectrum that is.

[Rivers]

Excellent all round! 

[Lastfirstface]

Dan Gellert has got to be my favorite extant fiddle and banjo player. I know some of his banjo playing has been posted in the "Musical Interests on Youtube" thread, but I don't think any of his fiddling has prior to this. This video of him doing Burl Hammons' Old Sledge just floors me:

[uncle bud]

Hi Lastfirstface - that one you posted ended up being Nancy Dalton. (Also good!) Here's Old Sledge. Dan's rhythmic sense is inspiring.

[Bill Roggensack]

Thanks Uncle Bud - that's about as good as it gets. How did you happen to stumble upon that video?

I say - Ry and Dan for PTCBW_2013 faculty. Of course, Ry would have to be booked in under a pseudonym - perhaps as Dan's sideman, Weenie McCooder? I think he's ready for the experience. Us old guys need to stick together.

And yes - it's high time Dan gellert put out another masterful CD, with lots of his fantastic banjo playing too.

[uncle bud]

Thanks Uncle Bud - that's about as good as it gets. How did you happen to stumble upon that video?

I say - Ry and Dan for PTCBW_2013 faculty. Of course, Ry would have to be booked in under a pseudonym - perhaps as Dan's sideman, Weenie McCooder? I think he's ready for the experience. Us old guys need to stick together.

And yes - it's high time Dan gellert put out another masterful CD, with lots of his fantastic banjo playing too.

If you'd asked me a month ago, I might remember where I found the Time video. No longer! The other stuff is material David Bragger of Sausage Grinder, banjochris's band, posted some time ago. Ry would have fun at PT.