RP is putting me right where I need to be this morning. As always, thanks!

I love RP !

My connection just dropped out - am I missing anything?

some sweet guitar work...  love it...

 

 majdim7th wrote: 
I don't think so, although I could certainly be wrong. I just picked up my guitar near the end of this, but if you put the capo on the first fret, the main chords seem to be, ( Relative to the capo) Bbmaj7, A.

At any rate, the song is certainly in the key of Bb and I don't use DADGAD much, but it doesn't seem like a sensible tuning for a song in Bb.

If I could find this recording, I'd try to figure it out. 

 chickenpoop wrote: 
Not to mention stealing Blackwaterside from Bert Jansch and claiming ownership of it. They were terrible thieves. Terrible (at that time) singer too.

Anyway, Valse Arabe is pretty good, marred slightly by the naff "octaves" passage.

 papaman wrote: 
Methinks Don Ross has a striking sound  (heavy wood as he calls it) and this is more reflective, not so percussive.

Sounds similar to Don Ross.

 nctomatoman wrote: 

And the problem is.................????????????

I agree with you, though, that there's a TON of great stuff issued by ECM. You're the only other person I've encountered, virtual or otherwise, who knows of Steve Tibbetts. Trippy music, indeed!

(Calling Mr. Owsley, calling Mr. Owsley...)

How can nctomatoman get so worked up. Thanks RP for playing this. Ralph Towner is great also, but so what? Kick back, enjoy, get a life. Chill.
 nctomatoman wrote: 

DADGAD?

Beautiful!

Very G d

OK enough....the ECM jazz label has about 200 variations on this sort of music, most of it done much better (Anouar Brahem on the oud, but some of Ralph Towner's stuff..Steve Tibbetts...though certainly not with the same ethnic slant).

Very trippy - nice!

BillG wrote:



I should , in all honesty , say that I was just thinking,
"What a nice Christmas-y tune."
Guess even my hard heart can change!
7.

Nice piece of music.

I like the odd sequey in the middle of each verse. It could be just another "sweet" song, but it has a haunted quality to it.

The main progression sounds a little like the theme music from "Brokeback Music," which I've had stuck in my head since the Oscars last night.

Once again, Radio Paradise provides me with tunes I've never heard anywhere else. I enjoyed the sort of middle eastern / arabic flavor to the acoustic guitar on this song. The guitar is nicely recorded. I'd like to hear more from this artist.

coding_to_music wrote:

EXACTLY!

i keep expecting it to roll into Black Mountainside, as i heard Jimmy do on some bootleg round about 1975. it was fantastic!

Nice!! Gave it an 8.

Who is this gifted guitarrist I haven't praised before now? Thank you again.

LLMikeJ wrote:

I have no idea if Tim Reynolds did a version of this song, but I must agree that this song sure reminded me of Tim Reynolds when I first heard it.

Very good!!!!!!!!!!!!!

coding_to_music wrote:

Led Zep were always sneaky like that, a little old blues riff there, old Yardbirds stuff here, Partridge Family over there

Good stuff!

(Two weeks later)
Bought the CD based on hearing this track here. CD a bit uneven, though certainly interesting from a world music perspective.

I think Tim Reynolds did a version of this song...?? can't find it on amazon.com??