Скачать с ютуб Barrett's Privateers - Marc Nerenberg with Bashu Naimi-Roy - Live at the Yellow Door Hootenanny в хорошем качестве

Barrett's Privateers - Marc Nerenberg with Bashu Naimi-Roy - Live at the Yellow Door Hootenanny

This was the second of two videos I made of this song, Stan Rogers' "Barrett's Privateers", on 18 August 2023. This first one (which can be found here::    • Barrett's Privateers - Arranged by Ma...   ) was recorded in my studio that afternoon, and that evening I performed it, recording this version at the first Yellow Door Hootenanny, following a four week summer hiatus, with the addition of Bashu Naimi-Roy - that evening’s Featured Performer, on accordion, in this unrehearsed duet. That Bashu was the Featured Performer at that Hootenanny was a stroke of good luck, in that not only does he play the accordion, which I thought would be a perfect addition to the banjo accompaniment, but he has also demonstrated an uncommonly good knack at listening closely to the beginning of a quirky irregular arrangement he's never heard before, and figuring out just the right accordion support to provide for that arrangement. Considering that I asked him to join me just as I was about to begin, that was an essential skill for him to have to pull this off - which, as you can see here, he did admirably! I had originally been considering singing this as an audience sing-along opening song at that first Hootenanny following the hiatus. But as I thought about it, I realized that, despite having sung along on the sing-along parts of this song countless times over the years, I had never really deciphered the words of the story told in the verses. All I really knew was that it seemed to be a jolly drinking song, a Canadian sea shanty with some seafaring fighting in it. So I looked up the lyrics and was surprised to find that this usually high spirited song actually tells a very sad story. It's such a mirthfully sung tragic tale, that I had always, quite mistakenly, thought the repeated line in it that says "I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier" was "I'm a drunken man on a Halifax pier". Indeed, my perception of the song changed completely at that point, and I decided to work out an arrangement emphasizing the tragedy of the story (that surely I'm not the only one to have missed when singing along high spiritedly). So, instead of a spirited sing-along, I came up with a slower, banjo accompanied version that puts the story front and centre. In the process of arranging the song, I reduced the number of times the chorus was sung from nine to four, and packed the short verses together into groups of three, telling the story in three longer "chapters" instead of nine tiny bites. The characters and story itself, which is set during the American Revolution, are fictional, but are based on the very real situation of England along with its Canadian and Caribbean colonies sending privateers (i.e. legal, government sanctioned, pirates) to attack American ships, while Washington sent American privateers to attack them just as forcefully. I'm playing it here on a 1910 Fairbanks banjo, strung with artificial gut strings, tuned gAEAC# - an open A9 chord - mostly using old-time thumb-lead two-finger picking, with occasional bits of clawhammer technique inserted here and there.