![]() ![]() Capoing 5 for C or even 7 for D can give a brilliant, sparky tone, but no depth. Like Earl we all use them to play in G-format: second fret for A, fourth for B. The banjo crutch has always been the capo (or “cheater”). The fiddle players didn’t like B too well, but they had no choice. Bill’s voice could cut like a knife when he was near the top of his range. He’d choose G for some songs like John Henry or Mule Skinner Blues, but more often went to Bb or B-natural, or C for a song like Molly and Tenbrooks or Blue Moon of Kentucky. He realized that the singer is the focal point of the music, and to “sell” his singing, he needed each song to be pitched in its optimum key for his voice. Strict! Even Bill realized there were ladies here, and that meant singing and playing in D. Bill Monroe would say, ‘Don’t do that!’ Many’s the time I would hear him say, ‘You do it where you do it and let them adjust to you.’ He said if they can’t do it, don’t let them play it.” As Hazel Dickens once recounted, “Alice and I used to work around the musicians, and if they couldn’t play in a certain key, we’d adjust. Women have reason to be sensitive about choice of keys. ![]() Yes, now that marijuana is legal in two states, and the health care web site is starting to work, what injustices are left to conquer? I nominate: Key tyranny… What’s the moral of the story? Well, obviously: There’s ladies here! He said, “I think there’s ladies here.” I said, “What do you mean?” He said, “Cause in the night I was thrilled and delighted.” See? So then he went into such a story-it’s hundreds of years later, I still blush. Mel: Well, one morning he got up smiling. Mel: He says, “Hey, there’s ladies here!”Ĭarl: I’m very interested to find out how Bernie discovered the woman. Mel: Bernie, one of the first leaders of our groups. The softer ones, I think, were ladies all the time.Ĭarl: Who was the person who discovered the female? Mel: Well, yes, just stronger or smaller or softer. ![]() We didn’t know who was the ladies and who was fellas.Ĭarl: You thought they were just a different type of fellas? They was with us, but we didn’t know who they were. Mel: You want to know something? We were so dumb that we didn’t even know who were the ladies. ![]()
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