Three Bean Salad
Acoustic Potluck
© 2007 Mike & Dayle Black (700261215235)
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Instrumental Kansas Acoustic Music. Original tunes written by Mike and Dayle Black as well as some great New England and Contra Dance tunes.
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- 1 Field Assignment
- 2 Kerouac / Little Tarkio
- 3 Santo Mariachi
- 4 Grumbling Old Man Cackling Old Woman /Old Dog
- 5 Zmrzlina / Willafjord
- 6 Flint Hills Ride / Jump at the Sun / Balls to Hall
- 7 Noodler’s Harnpipe
- 8 Problem Solved / Biscuits & Gravy
- 9 Garden Walk
- 10 Camels in the Deep Creek
- 11 Boiled Okra / On the Road
- 12 The Old Forge / Digger’s Reel
- 13 Red Bird / Second Shift
- 14 Gravely Harmonic
- 15 Window Pain / Reconciliation Reel / Shirley’s Reel
- 16 Great Plains Jig / Paddy on the Kaw / Blue Jig
- 17 Three String Waltz
- 18 Train to Prague
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BIO:
Mike Black – Mandolin
Mike spent a lot of his early years as a heavy metal guitar player, which accounts for his love of power tunes. Mike turned to the mandolin in 1993 after his father got one the year before. In 2004 Mike was named the Kansas State Mandolin Champion. Mike plays the mandolin he built for himself while working as an apprentice for Summit Mandolins.
Dayle Dryer Black – Fiddle
Dayle grew up singing lots of protest songs while her Dad played guitar and family sang or whistled. Later Dayle received a Masters Degree in Classical Piano. Since a real piano couldn’t easily be packed for camping trips, she picked up the fiddle in the fall of 2003 after her first trip to Winfield and has been rocking out since.
Mike Yoder – Guitar
Mike Yoder is an award winning photographer as well as songwriter. Mike has won the song writing competition at the Walnut Valley Music festival twice. Mike is also a long time member of the renowned Alfred Packer Memorial String Band. Mike is the chief photographer at the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper. Some of his photographs can be seen in the books America 24/7 and Kansas 24/7. And most recently finished his own book of photographs for the 100th anniversary of the Vinland Fair.
About the CD:
Three Bean Salad was formed originally as a dance band with Mike Black on Mandolin, Dayle on Piano and the late Gary Hughes on Fiddle. The most recent line up of Three Bean Salad with Mike Yoder on Guitar was cooked up for the 2004 MandoFest held at the historic Liberty Hall in Lawrence, Kansas. Since then Three Bean Salad has opened up for several top name players such as Mike Marshall, John Reischman, Don Stiernberg & Butch Baldassari. Three Bean Salad has also played for Dance Weekends and instrument workshops.
We began formulating a plan to write a few tunes for Three Bean Salad during the 2005 Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS . We had constantly been scouting out new tunes to learn but felt we needed to have a few that were our own. We had fun with our first tunes, so we set a goal to come up with one tune a month. Some months were surprisingly productive and others dry, but we exceeded our goal with 22 tunes in about a year. Plus, we were having a fabulous time creating and trying out tunes on
our jamming buddies.
We chose the name Acoustic Potluck because of the eclectic mix of styles these tunes have. The tunes are just like the food at a potluck; you never really know what’s going to show up. This collection includes reels, jigs, groove tunes, power tunes, dance sets, and waltzes. We’ll jam on anything: New England, old-timey, Irish, Klezmer, whatever comes up, and our tunes grew out of this musical smorgasbord. Many of these tunes have been successfully contradance road-tested: Flint Hills Ride, Digger’s Reel, Window Pain, Biscuits & Gravy, Old Dog, Paddy on the Kaw, Second Shift, Problem Solved, Boiled Okra, and Field Assignment, while others are just for jamming or zoning out. Guitar players tend to enjoy and fear our tunes because they are challenging as well as fun. As one of our friends put it “these tunes make the guitar part of the music rhythmically as opposed to being just back up accompaniment.”
The stories behind the tunes along with the sheet music of our original tunes with the chords played on the recording can be found in our tune book.
Three Bean Salad: Acoustic Potluck Collection.
For more information, please visit our website: www.threebeansalad.net