Offthetrails explores the backroads of Louisiana’s Cajun Country,
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How to Play the Fiddle : Making Basic Notes Using Five Note Scale on Arpeggio Exercise on the Fiddle
Learn how to make the basic notes using the basic five note scale on arpeggio exercise on the fiddle with expert music training tips in this free online instrument instruction video clip for beginners.
Expert: David Kaynor
Contact: www.DavidKaynor.com
Bio: David Kaynor has over 30 years of fiddle playing experience. He currently teaches and plays the fiddle in the Connecticut River Valley.
Filmmaker: Jay Holzer
Duration : 0:3:5
Here is a song from Jimmy C.Newman about the cajun boudin (boo-dahn).Traditionally, boudin is a sausage stuffed with pork and rice. Recently, shrimp, crawfish, and alligator have been added to the list of meats used.
Jimmy C. Newman was born and raised in true Cajun style just outside Big Mamou, Louisiana. However, it wasn’t Cajun music but the cowboy music of boyhood hero Gene Autry that got him started singing with bands, traveling through the South and Southwest. Soon, he was host of his own radio show in Lake Charles, Louisiana. That led to membership on the famous Louisiana Hayride radio showcase, to a TV show in Shreveport and to a Dot Records recording contract.
In 1954, Jimmy C. had his first country hit — the plaintive “Cry, Cry Darling,” which he co-wrote. He followed that with the hits “Daydreamin’” and “Blue Darlin’” and won Opry membership in 1956. In 1957, he had his biggest country hit with “A Fallen Star,” which also crossed over to the pop charts.
Then it was time for Jimmy C. to get back to his Cajun roots. He formed his Cajun Country band and was soon playing the music of his native Louisiana to fans around the world. Along the way, he became the only Cajun artist ever to receive a gold record on a Cajun French song. The tune, “Lache Pas La Potate,” earned gold status in Canada in 1976.
Jimmy C. and his band—known for their skilled, high-energy performances—have enjoyed success in Europe since their first appearance in London, England, at the famous Wembley Country Music Festival in 1980.
In 1991, Jimmy C. and Cajun Country earned a Grammy nomination for their Rounder Records album Alligator Man. The next year, Jimmy C. earned a special award from the Cajun French Music Association of South Louisiana for contributions to the promotion of Cajun Music worldwide.
In November 1993, Jimmy C. added to his list of television credits with a guest appearance on the CBS Sunday Night Movie Conviction, playing and singing traditional Cajun music.
On March 12, 2000, Jimmy C. was inducted into the North American Country Music Association’s International Hall of Fame; that award hangs on the wall alongside his induction into the Cajun Music Hall of Fame in Lafayette, Louisiana. Jimmy was inducted into the Cajun Hall of Fame in October 2004. For all that acclaim, he’s equally proud of his induction into the Fred’s Lounge “Wall of Fame” in his hometown.
The proud Cajun credits his band for much of his unique sound. With Bessyl Duhon on Cajun accordion and some of the best musicians in Music City, the group treats audiences to such high-spirited favorites as “Jole Blon,” “Jambalaya,” and “Diggy Liggy Lo.”
Jimmy C. and wife Mae continue to make their home on their 670-acre Singing Hills Ranch in Rutherford County, Tennessee, just a short drive from Music City and the Grand Ole Opry.
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I was born in 1921 and my music heroes were Jimmie Rodgers, Gene Autry and some of the western swing bands. I started playing the guitar when I was 12 years old. I did my stint in the Army then moved to Shreveport, Louisiana. I was on the Louisiana Hayride for some time. A 1937 cajun song started my career although I am not known as a cajun singer. I passed away in 1991 and an a member of the Country Music Hall Of fame. I liked my flashy clothes too. I was wondering if you know who I am?
yep, its webb pierce
Buck Norris sings “Cajun Moon” by Ricky Skaggs.
By the time he was in his mid-thirties, Kentuckian Ricky Skaggs had already produced a career’s worth of music. At age seven he appeared on TV with Flatt & Scruggs; at 15 he was a member of legendary Ralph Stanley’s bluegrass band (with fellow teenager Keith Whitley). None of his ’80s peers, male or female, had better musical credentials than Skaggs. The term “multi-talented” lacks the power to characterize this extraordinary singer and instrumentalist. Not only can he sing and pick with the best in progressive country, his broad and deep experience in traditional music separates him from the crowd. In the estimation of many, he is without peer as a combination vocalist and instrumentalist (guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo). After playing with Ralph Stanley for three years, Skaggs moved on to progressive bluegrass bands the Country Gentlemen and J.D. Crowe & the New South. With his own band, Boone Creek, he mixed the old and the new, adding Django Reinhardt. Skaggs took Rodney Crowell’s place in Emmylou Harris’ Hot Band in 1977, and the band’s excellent Roses in the Snow album showcased Skaggs’ versatility. Two number one hits came out of his 1981 album Waitin’ for the Sun to Shine, and the awards started arriving. Skaggs is largely responsible for a back-to-basics movement in country music. He showed many that a bluegrass tenor with impeccable taste and enormous talent could sell traditional country in the ’80s, a time when pop music had invaded the land of rural rhythm.
Skaggs began playing music at a very early age, being given a mandolin from his father at the age of five. Before his father had the time to teach Ricky how to play, the child had learned the instrument himself, and by the end of 1959, he had performed on-stage during a Bill Monroe concert, playing “Ruby Are You Mad at Your Man” to great acclaim. Two years later, when Skaggs was seven, he appeared on Flatt & Scruggs’ television show, again to a positive response. Shortly afterward, he learned how to play both fiddle and guitar and began playing with his parents in a group called the Skaggs Family. In addition to traditional bluegrass, Skaggs began absorbing the honky tonk of George Jones and Ray Price and the British Invasion rock & roll of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. In his adolescence, he briefly played in rock & roll bands, but he never truly abandoned traditional and roots music.
During a talent concert in his midteens, he met Keith Whitley, a fellow fiddler. The two adolescents became friends and began playing together, with Whitley’s brother Dwight on banjo, at various radio shows. By 1970, they earned a spot opening for Ralph Stanley. Following their performance, Stanley invited the duo to join his supporting band, the Clinch Mountain Boys, and they accepted. Over the next two years, they played many concerts with the bluegrass legend and appeared on his record Cry From the Cross. Skaggs also appeared on Whitley’s solo album Second Generation Bluegrass in 1972.
Though he had made his way into the bluegrass circuit and was actively recording, Skaggs had grown tired of the hard work and low pay in the Clinch Mountain Boys and left the group at the end of 1972. For a short while, he abandoned music and worked in a boiler room for the Virginia Electric Power Company in Washington, D.C., but he returned to performing when the Country Gentlemen invited him to join in 1973. Skaggs spent the next two years with the group, primarily playing fiddle, before joining the progressive bluegrass band J.D. Crowe & the New South in 1974. The following year, he recorded another duet album with Whitley, That’s It, and then formed his own newgrass band, Boone Creek, in 1976. In addition to bluegrass, the outfit played honky tonk and Western swing. Boone Creek earned the attention of Emmylou Harris, who invited Skaggs to join her supporting band. After declining her several times, he finally became a member of her Hot Band once Rodney Crowell left in 1977.
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Learn about the basics of how to play the fiddle with expert music training tips in this free online instrument instruction video clip.
Expert: David Kaynor
Contact: www.DavidKaynor.com
Bio: David Kaynor has over 30 years of fiddle playing experience. He currently teaches and plays the fiddle in the Connecticut River Valley.
Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso
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Learn about bowing and how to use the bow when playing the fiddle with expert music training tips in this free online instrument instruction video clip.
Expert: David Kaynor
Contact: www.DavidKaynor.com
Bio: David Kaynor has over 30 years of fiddle playing experience. He currently teaches and plays the fiddle in the Connecticut River Valley.
Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso
Duration : 0:2:58
Learn about jig bowing on the fiddle with expert music training tips in this free online instrument instruction video clip for beginners.
Expert: David Kaynor
Contact: www.DavidKaynor.com
Bio: David Kaynor has over 30 years of fiddle playing experience. He currently teaches and plays the fiddle in the Connecticut River Valley.
Filmmaker: Jay Holzer
Duration : 0:3:7
Country Music and the bass fiddle go hand in hand. Play the D Major scale in this free video clip on musical instruments.
Expert: Steve Anthony
Contact: www.SteveAnthonyStudios.com
Bio: Steve Anthony has been a professional photographer since 1989.
Filmmaker: Paul Muller
Duration : 0:1:5
Home video by cajun band from sweden.
Boiling bayou cajun band… “The members play traditional Cajun Music with passion and precision, though they’re not from Louisiana. These Creole cowboys are actually from Stockholm, Sweden…”
Duration : 0:3:25