The Barber's Fiddle - Becky Buller
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- čas přidán 9. 04. 2020
- Becky Buller with guest vocalists: Jason Carter, Kati Penn, Sam Bush, Laurie Lewis, and Shawn Camp.
Fiddle Solos: Laura Orshaw, Michael Cleveland, Stuart Duncan, Jason Carter, Deanie Richardson, Johnny Warren, and Sam Bush
Group Fiddlers: All soloists, Bronwyn Keith-Hines, Jason Barie, Katie Penn, Fred Carpenter, Tyler Andal, Brian Christenson, Laurie Lewis, Shawn Camp, Nate Lee, Dan Boner, and Becky Buller
Becky Buller Band:
Becky Buller - Vocals, Fiddle
Ned Luberecki - Banjo
Dan Boner - Guitar, Fiddle, Harmony Vocal
Nate Lee - Mandolin, Fiddle
Daniel Hardin - Upright Bass, Harmony Vocal
Songwriters: Becky Buller/Lynda Dawson
Copyright 2020 Dark Shadow Recording - Hudba
Mighty fine !!
I heard this on 88.7 and It's been in my head ever since. Love this song!!!! ♡
All those fiddlers sound so great!
Super! Great job highlighting a Bristol treasure!
I LOVED this! What a great story, well sung and well played! Thank you so much.
This is great tune and video, with great singers and pickers. I always enjoy seeing those at the top of their crafts getting together. If only John Hartford and Curly Ray Cline had been living to be part of it.
Becky Buller can sure enough brighten up a tune that causes your feet to tap!
I've heard the song many times but hadn't seen the video until just now. Very nicely done! Thanks for posting it for us to see.
Good song...
What a marvelous tune! I love it! ... saw the wall full of two-dollar bills.
Dang!! That was NIIIIIICE!!!
Awesome! Just awesome
Love ya, Becky! Hope all is well, big hug from Detroit!
You have kept the spirit of bluegrass music alive and have taken it to a higher level. Bless your heart Becky, you are a genius, and may the people of the world come to appreciate your music.
EDIT: I'd bet the fiddlers you showed doing the short solos are fiddlers who couldn't make a living on a fiddler's pay. (coming a from gigging musician myself)
Thanks for listening
Wow....thanks for that. Well done!!
Just fantastic so many great great players
Love it! Stuck inside working from home, like so many of us. Just what I needed to get my foot tapping! Thanks!
Great tune behind an entertaining story
This is just a awesome song and video. Thank you for including the photo of the bluegrass 5. My family is in this photo, Sterling, Floyd, Mac, and of course, the barber Billy Womack. The others in the photo I just don't remember their names. Brought tears of joy and some sadness. Thank you so much for making this and sharing. Becky, thank you for being family too.
Do you have any idea who the gentleman is on the left at 1.27? Glasses and looks like a brown shirt he's wearing. He looks so much like a dear friend of mine who passed 10 years ago. His last name was Bush and he had roots in the Carolinas going back to the 1600s. I know it's not the same person, but every time I look at this video and see that pic, it's as if my friend is looking back at me!
Awesome
I love this! New fan, here
I need a barber! Great song!
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This is a song about many a musician's life, including mine.
Only a musician who has had to give up his dream of making a true living on music could understand the heartache of the lyrics behind this song. Cat
Below are the lyrics from Becky's website:
The Barber’s Fiddle - Becky Buller, Goodnight Sparky Music, BMI
Lynda Wittig Dawson, Grandma Bea Music, BMI
For Gene at the Star Barbershop in Bristol, VA; Mr. Billy Womack of
Woodbury, TN; and the person who told me this story at Dollywood a
million years ago. - BB
Mr. Gene’s barbershop
State Street, the Virginia side
Walked in hand in hand with Pa
5 years old and terrified
Mr. Gene smiled at me
Helped me up into the chair
In the mirror I could see
An old red fiddle hanging there
The gray-haired barber caught my gaze
Said, “That’s a tale I like to tell
Of a young man who came in one day
With a fiddle and a dream to sell
He tried to live out on the road
Thought music was where he belonged
It broke his heart and it broke his soul
Made him sing a different song
Chorus:
Fiddled up high Fiddled down low
Fiddle most everywhere I go
I’d fiddle until my dyin’ day
If I could make a life on a fiddler’s pay
He sat in this very chair
Scared of what his folks would say
His hope was gone, his pockets bare
They warned him it would end this way
He returned to start anew
No money for a shave and trim
He asked, “Would this fiddle do?”
Said it wasn’t any use to him
Chorus
Mr. Gene swept the floor
Spun me ‘round and said you’re done
I begged him to tell me more
What happened to the wayward son
Turns out it was Mr. Gene
Hung his fiddle up that day
And now I’m living out his dream
Because he taught me how to play
Chorus 2 (repeat twice):
Fiddle up high Fiddle down low
Fiddle most everywhere I go
Gonna fiddle until my dyin’ day
If I can make a life on a fiddler’s pay
Tag:
Livin’ my life on a fiddler’s pay
I love this so much!
Go Nate!