Tony Trischka/Tim Eriksen "O Death"

http://timeriksenmusic.com/
http://www.tonytrischka.com

It was so much fun playing with Tony these last shows! We've been playing together since 1994 (!) but only for Christmas shows, so it was extra fun to have a chance to do some duo stuff. I hope we get to do more soon...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• old
• time
• banjo
• fiddle
• bluegrass
• oh
• brother
• where
• art
• thou
• dock
• boggs
• maine

[batfancy]

@BenDuvallIrwin Long-gone for sure! And of course the whole "conversation with death" or "death and the lady" story goes back before there were any white folks in the Appalachians, though it's hardly "as old as the hills" as the saying has it- probably only came together as such in the last half millenium or so...

[BenDuvallIrwin]

@RealMadMartigan It's a traditional Appalachian song, the author is unknown and long-gone.

[batfancy]

@jeanhaliburtonwills yeah, I've heard that said but never investigated. It wouldn't surprise me- there's certainly a lot of new music that's claimed as old and vice versa, and so often some kind of mash up...

[jeanhaliburtonwills]

@BenDuvallIrwin the composer of this song is Loyd Chandler

[JShmoe76]

@RealMadMartigan I believe the song is originally from Dock Boggs done in the1920's, and Ralph Stanley did an excellent cover, which was used in O Brother Where Art Thou

[GloomMaven78]

I have to say that THIS is my favorite version of "O Death"!

Fantastic job!!!

[guitargodattheheart]

man you make me wanna play the fiddle again :)

[RealMadMartigan]

Hey Tim love your version of this song..Just curious was this song written by Ralph Stanley, cause I always see him doing it

[beergrass13]

awesome

[zoeplankton]

neat shot from above too! looks like a really good show.