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| Dick Kimmel | Fishin' Creek Blues |
| Review by Brenda Hough | |
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Cooper Creek Records CCCD-0173 Personnel:
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Dick Kimmel's CD features his clawhammer style banjo and the flowing style is supplemented by a fine collection of other instrumentalists and singers. Dick's clawhammer style uses right hand movements that mimic a guitar player's thumb/brush downstroke with the other fingers. His fascination with banjo started in grade school and he quickly moved from 4 string to 5 string banjo in his own band. He continued to develop his clawhammer style for old-timey tunes, but his main instrument in bluegrass bands was the mandolin with the Black Mountain Bluegrass Boys and Mountain Grass. Most of the 17 songs on the CD are traditional tunes done as solo pieces or with a band. The other musicians blend in seamlessly with Dick's banjo and the licks fly back and forth. Fishin' Creek Blues features some great work by guitarist Shawn Craver, and Double File features Dick with fiddler Gail Heil. The solo sound of the clawhammer banjo is featured in Pretty Little Dog and Ian Charles, the song Dick wrote for his son. One interesting inclusion in the CD are the words to Turkey in the Straw and a collection of Fisher's, Rickett's and Staten Island Hornpipes all rolled into a Hornpipe Medley. There will be a tablature book available from Mel Bay for anyone who would like to play along with this collection of tunes. |
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