After warming up to “Three Little Birds” (the same warmup song they’ve played since the first meeting in January 2011), Guz teaches the group the featured song. They’ve been meeting at the church gym ever since, and pastor Cynthia Kepler-Karrer is a regular. Within a few months, more started showing up and they had to move to a larger space. Three months later, they hosted the first Austin Ukulele Society meeting at a community room at Central Market on North Lamar Boulevard. “Jen and I looked at each other and we were like, ‘We gotta do this.’” “We were all invited to bring ukes and we watched the movie, and there was a big sing-along,” says Guz.
Then, inspiration struck in October 2010 when they went to see The Mighty Uke, a documentary about the renaissance of the ukulele around the world. They became friends and would go see ukulele jams and play-alongs. They met in 2007 when she was looking for someone to teach her ukulele lessons and he was playing in the string ensemble Shorty Long with Pops Bayless. The society was founded by Jen Richardson and Bob Guz, two ukulele enthusiasts who yearned for something more than just a typical sing-along group. “I’m always trying to get people to come.” “This is the most fun night of my month,” says Tom McMinn, a cardiologist who first started attending meetings with his daughter about five years ago. While players of all ages and experience levels come to learn, improve their skills, and pick up a new song, they inevitably leave feeling revitalized and accomplished. Since January 2011, the society has hosted these monthly meetings to anyone interested in learning the ukulele (or “uke”), the four-string, guitar-like instrument most often associated with Hawaiian music. When it’s time for the group to warm up to Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds,” the ukulele players begin strumming and singing, “Don’t worry about a thing / ’cause every little thing is gonna be all right.” Slowly, as their playing grows stronger, the symphony of ukuleles and voices blends together and sounds so pretty, you actually feel like everything is going to be all right. Some greet each other and chat about this month’s featured song, Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold,” while others tune their instruments, filling the venue with dulcet notes that sound almost like a mix of harp strings and wind chimes. Catchy lead git riff and great keys, bass drums, and rhythm git.It’s evening on the second Thursday of August, and members of the Austin Ukulele Society settle into their seats inside the gym at Memorial United Methodist Church in Windsor Park. Great sophisticated (lots of frets used). Blues power Schoolgirl,Same Thing and Hurt Me too.īaby Blue is the first real electric version of Dylan acoustic tune.(forget anything the Byrds did). Ballroom dance on Lindy as good Chet Atkins.
Who the hell did that in 66? No one,ĭancin' puts anybody's idea of what acid rock is to shame. A Banjo jam, acid solo, motown solo, blues solo and spot on ending at 18:21 minutes. Jerry's solo have no lost sequeways on this version. The question and answer adlib between the drums/lead git/pig would make any black sole stop in his tracks. This is best Midnight Hour I have ever heard. The scale work is 12 to 14 frets of movement like a master jazz man with all balzy blues, and high speed bluegrass scales one song. To this day I new I never would witness Jerry at his finest hour which is this recording. I first heard this recording in 73 (releases by Pride Records in 72).
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