We have a fiddle player, and not just ANY fiddle player, but a really GOOD fiddle player. John Hunsinger joined us Wednesday night for band practice and just blew us away with his ability to jump in on songs and improvise accompaniments and leads. He even took leads on songs we KNOW he'd never heard before because they were songs I wrote so NO ONE has heard them...except the elite few who have bought the CD. He plays with an authentic bluegrass style and ear.
For a bluegrass band, having a fiddler is like a barbecue rib joint having beer; you can have one without it, but it sure is better with. After playing music for an hour and a half, we all enthusiastically said he passed the audition (tried to say it in a Beatles accent; failed) and then waited expectantly to hear whether we had passed his. He said yes. We gave him one of our CDs. And you know we don't hand those babies out to just ANYONE!
Welcome John!
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