At a Sunday afternoon jam session at the local micro brewery, our fearless CEO demythologizes the fiddle as the Devil`s legendary music maker by standing boldly among a quartet of violinists and emerging unscathed.
In the Soldier`s Tale, classic composer Igor Stravinskiy chronicled the Faustian story of a Soldier who trades his fiddle (metaphorically, his soul) to the Devil for a magic book and disaster ensues. Country rock fiddler Charlie Daniels told another deal-with-Satan fable in his “Devil Went Down to Georgia” hit tune. Appalacian fiddlers traditionally put rattlesnake rattles in their violins to charm the infernal instrument. Doesn`t every burgeoning banjo player struggle to conquer the melodic fiddle tune “Devil`s Dream”?
As Halloween approaches, the young executive smiles and dismisses these scary tales as “fiddlesticks.” Bluegrass musicians everywhere take heed and fear the violin no more, thanks to our plucky CEO.
P.S. Congratulations to Howard Marshall for his recent publication “Play Me Something Quick and Devilish: Old Time Fiddlers in Missouri.”
(BRC update: Check-out the BRC `Peace Dove` banjo on eBay Nov. 23-30, and our new Hall of Fame inductee- a bass player!)
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