Craig Duncan, Orange Blossom Special

[sonyahannah]

Now THAT'S what I call sex appeal!

[buffheat]

So you played with Dawker Mountain Valley Boys? I saw you when I was a kid at Lakewood Campgound in Myrtle beach - under the big seashell stage. We bought your album and unfortunately I don't have a record player anymore. I LOVED the way you guys did "Going' Down That Road Feeling Bad" and "Barefoot Nellie". That albums is one of my favorites - I wish I could still listen to it! Glad to see you're still out there and in my great state of Tennessee!

[netposse]

How old is this video Craig? You can still get your legs to move like that? For how long? This is your old classmate Debi B. and yes I can still clog too. My husband I really enjoyed listening to you play. We have old fiddles here from his family who use to gather and play on weekends. Very musical family.

[OneCarolinaGirl]

Craig, you are fabulous! My husband and I first heard you in a store in Myrtle Beach. You were playing our wedding song. We stopped and bought it. When I got home I bought more. We hope to see you in concert some day. BTW, the e-mail on your website isn't working. Thought you'd want to know that. We may be some of your oldest fans, but we're some of the biggest too. Is there a place where you post your public appearances?

[Jaybird143]

Ah, Craig, happy memories of the Dawker Mountain Valley Boys! You look the same as in 1975!

[southernsportsman424]

are Craig and Stuart related?

[i8bugs1]

ok anybody who can sing and dance while playing has impressed me

[b1ak3m]

Nice job mister!

[yank22257]

We have a statue playing a fiddle...and he does a fine job.

[kantalope]

meh he was ok lol

the girl who plays this for our marching band concerto is better. yeah a violin concerto for marching band, pretty insane.

[missystu]

Too much bullshit - not enough playing. Try again when youre awake or sober.

[stevesprinceofsteaks]

Typical no talent bass player comment. Try playing a real instrument and come back and try again. Cocksucker. lol

[ralph5656]

@missystu

No body I repeat NOBODY sounds good on this tune without backup. He has guts to do it this way. He can sit in with ANY band. Now thats a real musician. What he did was not easy, ask any fiddle player.

[ninjaslayer99]

dude this guy can fiddle i know that but ive heard the orange blossom special played better

[inzektorider]

insane

[UISTMAN59]

We had Craig Duncan and Friends at the local church here last night and they were great! They played this one too. Brilliant. *****

[sundhamar]

is that performance not in the sound hall in lerwick shetland isles?? im pretty sure i was there.... i could be wrong though!! great playing!!

[jts024]

amazingly effortless

[GeoffBowers]

Great to see this played and sung solo! There's hope for us all yet. :O)

Great stuff! Geoff.

[wink285]

haha dude you ROCK! your violin sounds so good it's crazy! you play this awesome!!! :D

[fiddlerman1]

He's the guy who wrote my fiddle book.

[ninjaslayer99]

damn i meant to say the metis people play it best:P

[ninjaslayer99]

he play it ok and the best the main chourus was good. the metis peple play it soooooooooooooo good. theres this guy darren lavalee. god hes pro

[Bluegrasser1592]

Man what are u talkin bout. That guy rocks, and yes when ur playin music u should tuck ur shirt in. But again man soundin awsome keep it up

[ninjaslayer99]

eh i heard better. he plays it ok but i heard ppl who play it it like a pro.

[fiddlerman1]

Best fiddle playin iv EVER heard!!!

[BlueYellowDogs]

:O Dude!! that was....incredible! Bout blew me away! Great sound, Great job!! (and don't listen to that other guy, ur shirt tucked in makes you look sharp!)

[mytimeisablur]

awesome - I can't sing and play at the same time - good stuff :)

[giggleblaggle]

That dancing thing at the end was kinda reet. Don't tuck in your shirt, it's wierd.

[giggleblaggle]

Smoky Mountain Sunday

[hankmacgregor]

Look forward to seeing Craig at Guildtown Bluegrass Festival Scotland on the 10th 11th 12th August

[hethinksitsreal]

Yeah...that's my uncle. You rock Uncle Craig!

[seminolechik791]

that was awesome. the orange blossom special is my altime favorite fiddle song. i love this version of it too!!

[cinnamontwistt]

youuuuhoooo is right you feel the music!

[fhesi3]

Very good. Thanks Craig for all the books.

[stradivariusone]

this is frightening , If this is what I'm going to sound like after I'm thru with his book teach yourself fiddling ... I wa thinking of getting the cd but this made me change my mind.... I'm looking elsewhere for instructions ... if he's playing on the instructional cd ... forget it ... he cannot play ...

[Pitcairn2]

Saw him tonight at Guildtown. You must be joking- that man CAN play.

[addictofgames]

No offense...the Orange Blossom Special was written in triplets...to mimic the sound of a train. While his improvisation is good...I think I'll stick to the Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt rendition of the Orange Blossom Special.

[EMTech118]

I dont. not believe it. But ya never know :)

[xms32]

Craig Duncan is a former professor at vanderbilt in nashville. If you think this is amateur just because its fiddle music, ask him to play some paganini. He can and will and he'll do it better than you.

[buffoman]

I was in college withhim inthe early 70s. Craig is one of the most prolific writer/editors of fiddle and orchestral string method books in the business. Just look at a MelBay catalog. 1st time i have heard him in years. Still good

[xms32]

I've reviewed 3 of his books. Great author, writer, and teacher. Talked to him on the phone once many years ago, very nice guy.

[EMTech118]

I take that back, I wasnt at the middle part as of yet. That is honestly a hard thing to do from the bridge of it to the end. I used to be able to do that, but havent picked up a violin lately unfortunally.

[SwinginDrumMeister]

Can you do the dance at the end? Lol. Wish the camera was further back so we could see it better.

[KanzlerM]

Perhaps part of the problem is that he makes it look easy?

[EMTech118]

es posible

[KanzlerM]

Besides, by the time you get to the point it might matter, you'll be long past using his book.

[EMTech118]

im with the ones that hope its a joke..thats honestly beginner level playing...

[lilhyperfingers]

Beginner level? You gotta be crazy. I think all of us wish we could do that!! Gosh.

[dwurtz]

This is absolutly not a "beginner level"!

[shankandbrisket]

WOW!

[oedible]

this is how beginner level players can get an audience

[SwinginDrumMeister]

That's gotta be a joke, surely to God? Craig Duncan's top class.