Blackbird & Beggarman Now Available on iTunes!
Thanks to the wonderful folks at tunecore.com, my CD from 1994, entitled The
Blackbird & the Beggarman is now available at iTunes.
Here is the link to the iTunes Music Store, where you can preview and download individual tunes, or the whole album:
Stephen Seifert
and Jerry Rockwell
on FolkAlley.com
In May of 2008, Stephen Seifert and I did a little tour of Ohio dulcimer
clubs and folk groups.
Our very first event was this interview at WKSU
in Kent with former host Jeff St. Clair.
The audio for the entire interview,
including three sets of tunes, as well as video for each of the sets
is now up on folkalley.com. FolkAlley has to be one of the finest folk
listening experiences online or offline:
http://www.folkalley.com/music/extras/seifert-rockwell/
Long story made short:
Jerry Rockwell is a full-time musician, recording artist,
teacher, mountain dulcimer builder, composer/ arranger, and music
theory advocate.
The Cabbage Waltz
2008 is roughly the 30th anniversary of the publication of my book
entitled Chordal Explorations for 3-String Dulcimer, which
I self-published in a small 5.5" X 8.5" edition while living in Northern
Vermont. The main chord progression I used to illustrate the C, F,
and G7 chords (in CGG or 155 tuning) was the infamous "Cabbage Chords" --
or the chorus chords to Bile Dem Cabbage Down.
Three decades later, it seems that almost everyone is playing in
DAD or 158 tuning, and I've found myself playing almost exclusively
in 4-equidistant DADD in recent years. As for the Cabbage Chords, for
me they have really stood the test of time, and I've spun them into
many different genres, grooves, and time-signatures...
...The Cabbage Waltz was written as a New Year
greeting at the end of 2008, and includes links to PDFs and MP3 audio
files.
Read the complete article online.