INSTRUMENTAL JAM PAGOSA LATE NIGHT TENT MEETING

From the just held Pagosa Springs 4 Corners Festival. Sat. late night jam with the Belleville Bearface Crooked Punchduster Outfit. You'll see many familiar faces here and I'll be naming names as I'm able; fiddle break is Phoebe Hunt(The Bellville Outfit, Brittany Haas (Crooked Still), Jeremy Garrett, and Odessa Jorgensen( Biscuit Burners); banjo thruout by Chris Pandolfi, mando by Thile and Jesse Cobb and Jason Norris (an amazing mandoist from the band Bearfoot). Of course, the IBMA nominated Andy on dobro, and the soon to be nominated Andy on guitar, along with Mike Mickelson (Bearfoot), Rob Teter, and the great Chris Eldridge
( who sooner or later will be vocalizing on Jimmy Skinner's classic, "I'm A Rambler"

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• pagosasprings
• fourcorners
• bearfoot
• odessaj
• bellevilleoutfit
• belleville
• thile
• latenight
• jam
• phoebehunt
• stringdusters

[chrisbworth]

Does anyone know what they're playing? Like the name of the song? Or is this new or traditional or something like that?

[motnovak]

Hi, yes, thanks for asking. My viewers say ( and I'm sute they're correct ) that this is the Squirrel Hunters, written by the late John Hartford. There is vid on my site of Betse Ellis of The Wilders playing it. And it is mentioned as the song they play ( and another great version ) in another vid posted here with Phoebe Hunt and Jeremy Garrett ( Belleville, Stringdusters ) in one of the workshops at Pagosa. Thanks for stopping by, Tom N.

[motnovak]

WOW!! Thanks to all of you for the comments. I'm a pretty new fan so a lot of performers are still new or unknown to me but I was reallt bowled over by Jason Norris, Brittany Haas, and Phoebe Hunt and Mike Mickelson. Add the great contribations of Odessa J ( can we JLo her and just refer to her as OJo ) and Bearfoot sure stood out! Earlier in the weekend I'd been bowled over by Angela Oudean so it was quite the Bearfoot discovering weekend for me!

[mccarty53]

Actually, the first person to really popularize this tune was the late, truly great mandolinist Butch Baldassari.

[banjobozo]

It's called "Chinquapin Hunting".



[TheCubanafrothunder]

God I fricking love this video! Shred o rama

[Thefiddlefan]

Sheer genuis each artist in this jam is!! Cannot help but wonder how anyone can get themselves to dislike this performance.

[Thefiddlefan]

Sheer genuis each artist in this jam is!! Cannot help but wonder how anyone can get themselves to dislike this performance.

[bourgeois3256]

I'm pretty sure this tune is called "Chinquapin Honey." At least that's the name I was told by the person who taught it to me!

[waitingontrial1]

This is definitely not the squirrel hunters. who ever said that was retarded

[jolysable]

ca c'est du boeuf extraordinaire!!!

[egomouse]

That's some really epic jamming!

[mandolinjames]

the tune is chinquapin hunting. david grier does a wonderful version (and i believe the first to come out on a "big release" after hartford did it) on panorama. and just to point out the dusters do this song at every show they play so take that into consideration before anyone is deemed better than anyone else. familiarity is probably the most important factor improvising ie. being aware of the melodic and harmonc structure of a specific tune because you play it at every show &jam you ever do.