• Registered: 2007-08-26
  • Posts: 19

Topic: Looking for Blues Recordings with Great Blues Violin/ Viola/ Fiddle

Hi. folks!

I'm hoping I can get some help on a new passion I got zapped with by pure coincidence. My wife and I were flying into Chicago this June, and we got out Outbound flight postponed a day. As luck would have it, the Chicago Blues Festival was in Day One, and we decided to take it in!

While there, we saw a great Blues Combo, folks from different bands jamming together, and they were playing great Chicago-style Dirty Blues. One of the musicians was a violinist, and his playing, jamming against a Stratocaster Slide Guitarist, was enough to make you melt. Violin/ viola/ fiddle, played in the blues can add a level of drama and mood that is staggering!

Anyways, I am finding it hard to find a good album version of this experience (Ruby Harris just doesn't have "teeth" and Papa John Creach is pretty much stuck with the Jefferson Airplane sound), and thought I'd ask this group if there were any contemporary blues bands that they know of that have a violin/ viola/ fiddle player!

Thanks!

  • From: Deep in the forest
  • Registered: 2007-02-11
  • Posts: 5,296

Re: Looking for Blues Recordings with Great Blues Violin/ Viola/ Fiddle

Hey Scott, What a great question. I don't have a specific answer but I did "go looking". I googled "blues violin players" and was surprized at the number of hits.. There's even some instructional books! Did see Ruby Harris listed for Chicago, but didn't go deeper as my computer "has issues". It will be fun to see what people come up with.   Cathy