Horace Weston's Celebrated Polka (version 2)

This is a redo of the piece I posted a month ago at http://soupgreens.com/2009/09/25/horace-westons-celebrated-polka/ . I wanted to approach it from a different angle. The other version uses fingerpicking on a parlor classical and has exaggerated dynamics and tempo shifts. This version is flatpicking on a steel string acoustic and keeps the dynamics and tempo even.

Both of these recordings are part of a blog series on the 19th century classic banjo star Horace Weston. See also:

http://soupgreens.com/2009/07/29/horace-weston-champion-banjoist-of-the-world/
http://soupgreens.com/2009/08/26/egyptian-fandango/
http://soupgreens.com/2009/08/28/a-fall-in-the-fickle-field-of-fancy/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5TzkJ6gjtk

Category:

Music

Tags:

• classic
• banjo
• polka
• flatpicking
• steel
• string
• Gibson
• L3
• solo
• black
• and
• white

[lcsgze]

I think that this song is baffling people. Is it a weak Strauss ripoff? Pretentious Doc Watson? Why would anybody want to mix romantic-era pop with vintage americana?