- Melt the Teakettle
- Lee Highway Blues
- Les Barres de la Prison
- Banish Misfortune
- John Henry
- A Little Help From My Friends
- Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
- Bemsha Swing
- Tone Guys' Boogie
- Aran Boat Song
- Working on a Building Medley
- Willow Graden Fantasy
- Carroll County Suite
- Celtic Groove
- (Untitled)
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Casey Driessen Primary Artist
Michael Kott Primary Artist,Cello
Buell Neidlinger Primary Artist,Cello
Vassar Clements Primary Artist,Guest Artist
Stuart Duncan Primary Artist,Guest Artist
Martin Hayes Primary Artist
Natalie MacMaster Primary Artist,Guest Artist
Hanneke Cassel Primary Artist
Richard Greene Primary Artist
Bruce Molsky Primary Artist
Suzy Thompson Primary Artist
Alsdair Frasier Primary Artist
Matt Glaser Primary Artist,Guest Artist
Alasdair Fraser Primary Artist,Guest Artist
Sam Bush Guest Artist
Tim O'Brien Guest Artist
The Nashville Lumberyard Featured Artist
Martin Hayes Performer
Denzil Best Composer
Vassar Clements Performer,Composer
John Lennon Composer
M. Christian Composer
Suzy Thompson Performer
Paul McCartney Composer
Traditional Composer
Richard Thompson Composer
Stuart Duncan Performer,Composer
Darol Anger Composer
Bruce Molsky Performer
Alasdair Fraser Performer
Thelonious Monk Composer
Matt Glaser Performer
Natalie MacMaster Performer
Jimi Hendrix Composer


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Overview
The sixth song on Darol Anger's 1999 CD, Diary of a Fiddler, is a pleading version of the Beatles' "With a Little Help From My Friends," which would have been a very appropriate title for the album. This album finds Anger pairing up with other pioneering violinists like Natalie MacMaster, Stuart Duncan, Vassar Clements, Sam Bush, Tim O'Brien, and several others, on mostly improvised or hastily learned songs recorded at fiddle camps and jam sessions between late 1996 and early 1999. The sense of exploration and experimentation is pervasive throughout the album, most often resulting in two fiddlers intertwining around one another, often in harmony but occasionally in battle. In the liner notes, Anger notes that Natalie MacMaster is "like a sword dancer. I swear she makes playing the fiddle sound dangerous," and that compliment could stand for any of the musicians that accompany him on the 14 tracks. The opening track "Melt the Teakettle" offers Anger's earthy, gruff fiddle playing against MacMaster's crisp Celtic melodies, while "Working on a Building Melody" starts slowly and undefined until accompanist Matt Glaser carves out a keening, almost classically-oriented violin cry, and the whole thing breaks down to an old-fashioned back porch stomp. Fans of Anger's previous progressive bluegrass/new acoustic works like Jam or Fiddlesticks will find not only familiar themes and stylistic threads here, but also some real sparks of invention that only improvisational jamming can produce. ~ Zac Johnson
Product Details
Release Date: | 07/20/1999 |
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Label: | COMPASS RECORDS |
UPC: | 0766397427522 |
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Album Credits
Performance Credits
Darol Anger Primary Artist,ViolinCasey Driessen Primary Artist
Michael Kott Primary Artist,Cello
Buell Neidlinger Primary Artist,Cello
Vassar Clements Primary Artist,Guest Artist
Stuart Duncan Primary Artist,Guest Artist
Martin Hayes Primary Artist
Natalie MacMaster Primary Artist,Guest Artist
Hanneke Cassel Primary Artist
Richard Greene Primary Artist
Bruce Molsky Primary Artist
Suzy Thompson Primary Artist
Alsdair Frasier Primary Artist
Matt Glaser Primary Artist,Guest Artist
Alasdair Fraser Primary Artist,Guest Artist
Sam Bush Guest Artist
Tim O'Brien Guest Artist
The Nashville Lumberyard Featured Artist
Technical Credits
Richard Greene PerformerMartin Hayes Performer
Denzil Best Composer
Vassar Clements Performer,Composer
John Lennon Composer
M. Christian Composer
Suzy Thompson Performer
Paul McCartney Composer
Traditional Composer
Richard Thompson Composer
Stuart Duncan Performer,Composer
Darol Anger Composer
Bruce Molsky Performer
Alasdair Fraser Performer
Thelonious Monk Composer
Matt Glaser Performer
Natalie MacMaster Performer
Jimi Hendrix Composer
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