I am looking for the details of a particular cover version of Chuck
Berry's "Never Can Tell". The distinguishing feature of this cover is
that it has a really hot fiddle break. (I heard this recording in a
pub in Phnom Penh.) |
Request for Question Clarification by
googlenut-ga
on
05 Feb 2005 23:57 PST
Hello wazzawazza-ga,
Could the version that you are looking for be the one by Ronnie Lane
with Slim Chance? I was unable to find a clip with a fiddle break,
but according to ArtistDirect.com, ?Slim Chance regularly featured two
fiddles, accordion, dobro, mandolin, and saxophone in addition to the
standard rock quintet at its core.?
You can hear a clip at the link below (track 20).
ArtistDirect.com
Ronnie Lane
You Never Can Tell
http://ubl.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,335361,00.html
Googlenut
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Clarification of Question by
wazzawazza-ga
on
06 Feb 2005 16:47 PST
Thanks for your efforts. Unfortunately Ronnie Lane's version is not
it. "You Never Can Tell" appears on 5 or so albums by Ronnie Lane,
none of them the one I'm after. In the cover that I heard in Phnom
Penh, I recall the following: male voice (gruff, drawling American
accent, black?), included hot sax playing, and hot fiddle break as
mentioned previously. I thought that it might be John Prine's cover on
the Common Sense album, because his voice fits, but the album credits
do not say anything about a fiddle player.
wazzawazza
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Request for Question Clarification by
googlenut-ga
on
06 Feb 2005 20:53 PST
Hello wazzawazza-ga,
Based on your description of the voice, Aaron Neville sounds like a possibility.
BarnesAndNoble.com
The Grand Tour
Aaron Neville
http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?userid=pkV2vQmIf8&EAN=731454008624&ITM=14
The album credits don?t list a fiddle. They do list a mandolin. I?m
not really familiar with the sound of a mandolin. Is it possible for
it to sound like a fiddle?
Googlenut
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Clarification of Question by
wazzawazza-ga
on
08 Feb 2005 18:13 PST
Hi Googlenut
Sorry for the delay. I've just come back from town where I gave Aaron
Neville's vers. of YNCT a full hearing. The voice sounded about right
but unfortunately not the one. Not surprising I guess - making a
mandolin sound like a fiddle would take some mighty sophisticated
processing - easier to get a fiddle player, though both instruments
share the same tuning (GDAE). In principle mandolin players could find
their way around a violin fingerboard, however what I heard in
Cambodia was really hot - sounded like a real virtuoso.
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