St. Louis Tickle

[ddanze]

5 stars, just great!

[tommymacdonald]

This song is also the basis for the song buddy bolden's blues

[GreenHat9]

Thanks for pointing this out. Actually, luigiranalli77 (below) also mentioned this last year. I've been meaning to update my notes on this page to reflect this.

[GreenHat9]

Well, I didn't have a written score. This is my own arrangement (by ear) based on what I've heard on several recordings, including Dave Van Ronk's. Thanks for your comment.

[canuto02]

Save of ragtime!! i love ragtime!!!

[luigiranalli77]

I like it very much!!! Of course that's not really the St Louis Tickle, but a guitar rag entitled Blake's Rag, which includes a strain common to St Louis Tickle, a folk rag strain originally known as the "funky butt". Great! Did you pick it from the Grossman recording or does a piano arrangement of this exist in print?

[GreenHat9]

Hmm, that's interesting. I was unaware of Blake's Rag or funky butt. I've listened to a few recordings of each on YouTube, and I certainly see how these strains are closely related, truly in the folk music tradition.

My arrangement comes from Dave Von Ronk's and Ed Sweeney's guitar performances. I didn't write down the arrangement, it's just by ear from recordings. The Sweeney version is available on iTunes. Version by Arlo Guthrie and FrostyMorn (who learned it from Van Ronk) on YouTube.

[GreenHat9]

And to answer your question, I don't know of any piano arrangement in print.

[bauerinxyz]

You are VERY easy to listen to.Great.

[FrostyMorn]

Sweet! Very nice arrangement, and well played. I play DVR's transcription for guitar, as you know, which is where I first heard the tune. Nice to hear it rendered so well on another instrument.

[tdub1941]

Darn! This is great. I love it! Nice work!

5 STARS!

Everybody needs see and hear you perform at any of the Ragtime Festivals!

Thanks for your post of this video.

RagJazzMonkey

Tom Warner

[GreenHat9]

Thank you, Tom, for these kind comments, and for the tremendous service you have done in posting so many live music festival performances on YouTube. Those posts been very helpful to me.

-Paul

[tdub1941]

Paul,

Excellent!

I'm glad you have been able to make good use of them!

I sure love collecting them and posting them!

AND, listening to them many times over!

RagJazzMonkey

Tom Warner

[0104vtvs]

it's an absolute pleasure to listen to your play ! It seems you have some deeper knowledge about ragtime. Can you answer me a question ? Do you know the music on this clip: 'cakewalk dance clips' (the 7th on my favorites)

[kozy501]

Nice I'm soon going to take piano lessons.

[Keeper1st]

Very nice job. I notice you're in San Francisco, yet I don't recognize you -- from the side at least. Do you not attend the local annual ragtime festivals, in Sutter Creek and Sacramento? If not, you should, and you should get up and play during the open piano and after hours sets at the festivals. You've got good accuracy and tone. Many would enjoy your performances, I'm sure.

[GreenHat9]

Thank you very much. I wasn't aware of the festivals, and I'm so grateful to you for pointing me toward them. I see I missed the one in Sutter Creek this past summer, but it looks like I'll be able to make the one next month in Sacramento.

[Keeper1st]

Awesome. You won't regret it, for sure. The WCRF in Sacramento isn't as laid-back and atmospheric as Sutter Creek, but considerably larger.

[Gangly1]

Very nice Paul.

Congratulations again sir.

I think I have this somewhere on guitar by Ralph McTell (Streets Of London).

Regards,

Paul

[GreenHat9]

Thanks, Paul. Encouragement from you means a lot to me!