Jakob's Ferry Stragglers Research Paper

The short story The Boat by Alistair MacLeod is narrated by a man who comes from a fishing family. His mother’s side of the family has forever lived and worked by the sea and continues this tradition. The narrator’s father always wanted to be an academic, but worked by the sea to support his family. The parents’ characters seem to clash in many aspect of their lives and this is very evident in the passage.

The albums of the Hamilton County Bluegrass Band included typical bluegrass fare, recording covers of genre pioneers Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs. Their concert repertoire included covers of bluegrass standards such as “Salty Dog Blues”, “Uncle Pen”, “Kentucky Waltz” and “Orange Blossom Special,” a song for which they became known for.[13] These songs referenced rural life and locations, whether explicitly such as “Kentucky Waltz” or within the lyrics, referencing hunting or barn dances. In 1967, the band performed Reno and Smiley’s “Barefoot Nellie,” a song with rural themes and humorous lyrics such as

The original name of this band was Bill Haley and the Saddlemen from 1949 – 1952 and performed country style. It was during this time that Haley became one of the top cowboy yodelers. However a great deal of the Saddlemen recordings didn’t get released until the 70s and 80s. They included wonderful tunes like “Rose of My Heart” and “Yodel Your Blues Away”. Members of this group included Haley piano, Johnny Grande accordion, and Billy Williamson steel guitarist.

They also played “Let’s Dance” by David Bowie. The two guitarists seem to start off simultaneously playing their guitars letting the musical beats take center stage before the vocalists began to sing the lyrics. The female vocalists started the next song a cappella (Chain, chain, chain) Aretha Franklin song “Chain of Fools” after a few chorus the instruments started to play the piano, guitar and then the drums throughout the song with a driving beat. The night began to wind down and the band played “Some Kind of Wonderful” by John Ellison it was first released by Soul Brothers Six in 1976. This song had the whole place singing along. As I close with my review of what I thought of the band I can personal say I enjoyed myself. They were very entertaining the kept the crowed singing and dancing with an upbeat present. They played most of the song true to the original version. If you like old school 70s and 80s music with a mixture of different genres, then you would like this

They were equal to a modern town’s band. The role of the Waits was to perform at public events that would be viewed by the town and were supposed to play original composed music.

The first song that the band played was very soft and relaxing. The string bass was the lead of the first song and played a flat four rhythm, and the rest of the band

There was no theme to the music that was played. The concert involved different genres of jazz, including Latin, contemporary, big band, and Dixieland. I felt that there was a good mix of songs and it did not affect the concert since there was no theme.

     Another song that I enjoyed was entitled “Humility”. There was also some mild humor in the introduction to this song. The trumpet soloist took off Mario Rivera’s jacket and put it on creating laughter when Arturo said it’s a good look for him. I too found his outfit rather funny. He was wearing leather pants, and chain wallet, and a nice button down shirt. He stood in the front of the stage for about 3 minutes until it

“Minor Mystery,” the first piece played by the group, was composed and arranged by Ellen Rowe. This song is a minor blues that is normally set to be played at a medium swing, however, this performance was taken at a slightly faster pace. This allowed for the piece to be played with more energy, rather than just standing still. “Minor Mystery” is a work that lets the ensemble demonstrate their stylistic technique. This piece is riddled with dynamic contrasts and notations such as marcatos, accents, and tenutos. This proved to be a challenge, due to the fact that not everyone has the same concept of how these notes should be played. While learning and rehearsing this song, stylistic concepts were probably what we spent the most time on. In order to really sound together and like one cohesive unit, the perfection of these articulations was crucial.

In the 1930s, a popular group from Kentucky named the Monroe Brothers was a successful country band. The brothers were Charlie who played guitar and Bill who played the mandolin. The

Oh sure there were other great acts and nice tunes played by all the bands that participated, but no one quite stood out to me like the band Sister Sadie.

They used to be a british blues band that was all male (“Fleetwood

To start things off, we will discuss the similarities. There are three that jump right off the page: one, both these songs were first released in the third album of the respective artists; two, both songs were released in the 1960s decade; and three, both songs were formatted along 7" diameter i.e. both were phonograph records.

The title of the fourth song was called, “Let’s get away from it all”. In their fourth song again, saxophone was played a huge role. From the beginning of the song piano kept playing same melody line repeated and saxophone was moving wide range of notes and pitch. The rhythm and the tempo of drum changed as saxophone changed rhythm and the tempo. The bass guitar helped drum to follow saxophone’s rhythm and tempo. The saxophone style was kind of similar with the how Louis Armstrong was playing a solo. There were two guitars, but saxophone dominated other instruments and it was difficult to hear other instruments.

The Seafarer by Burton Raffel was written during the Anglo-Saxon period where the Anglo-Saxon warriors lived to defend their King, like in the story Sir Gawain and The Green Knight. One of the warriors speaks about his challenges and begins saying that his story is not at all joyful. It is a story full of pain and suffering. The story paints a picture of what it means to be “dislocated”, “set out”, all by oneself and how badly it feels. “My feet were cast in icy bands, bound with frost,with frozen chains, and hardship groaned around my heart. Hunger tore at my sea-weary soul. No man sheltered on the quiet fairness of earth can feel how wretched I was”.(Raffel 1) The powerful imagery in this stanza sets the tone that the narrator is trying to