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Presented by Down the Road Records, Bell Buckle Media was in charge of Bluegrass and Folk Promotion
Tony Trischka - Down the Road Records (Bell Buckle Media)
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How fortunate we are to have this new set of recordings revisiting the Earl Jam opus. For those unfamiliar with this iconic story, the brief recap is that during the darkest days of COVID, Tony Trischka received "the call," a thumbdrive of tapes containing years worth of Earl Scruggs and John Hartford jamming at Earl's house after his retirement from performing, later ascertained to be from 1987-1998.
A man on a mission, Tony - not unlike the late John Hartford - whose life by his own admission had been inspired and changed by Scruggs' music, then set out to transcribe Earl's solos note-for-note. Along the way, he found himself becoming further committed to finding a way for the larger community to hear these later Earl Scruggs efforts. It is hard to overstate the musical importance and historical significance of what Trischka has done with this canonical material.
As Neil Rosenberg stated in his liner notes to the previous set, themselves winners of the IBMA liner notes award, "Ultimately, Tony's recreation of Scruggs' solos reflect the same kind of intensive woodshedding that Glenn Gould did with Bach's published scores." These recordings occupy a unique place not only in Earl Scruggs' and Tony Trischka's music, but in bluegrass overall, due to the unusual story of this recorded contemporary output, in collaboration with previously unavailable Earl Scruggs music from the past.
Trischka has put all this incredible music together, from past and present, as both producer and musician, with meticulous respect and ability to replicate the original Earl Scruggs "jams," or solos, and assembling top-notch musicians to breathe new life into classic material. With new jams from today's musicians, sensitively and vibrantly recreated, featuring Tony's inspired Scruggs work, this is a unique tribute to Scruggs' music but also an equally unique manifestation of the historical continuity and originality of the bluegrass tradition in action.
With any luck, those with ears to hear will recognize this "Second Set" for what it is, not just what it represents: nothing less than Trischka's own finest work to date, his magnum opus, without overstating or sounding too grandiose. It's an astounding achievement, delivering Scruggs's music in fresh and irresistible contexts, the best of old and new.
Both this set of Earl Jam, as well as the first, stands on its own. Though companion pieces in a sense, there is no overlap of material. While some of the special guests overlap, from Billy Strings, Del and Ronnie McCoury, the Gibson Brothers, Sierra Ferrell,, Molly Tuttle, and many more, new names were also added, like the SteelDrivers, Sister Sadie, and rising star Farayi Malek (from outside the bluegrass world). Tony's song notes, which follow, contain all the details.
None of this material has been previously released and features different approaches and arrangements, while remaining faithful to Earl's solos. The repertoire itself is all different, too, and some may prefer this set to the other, though completists may feel each set of recordings is incomplete without the other. Each offers something that the other does not.
This set perhaps offers more of a tip of the hat to John Hartford's own music, and not just for the crucial role he played as musician/archivist in preserving these jam sessions on tape. In this set, Hartford's classic original "Gentle On My Mind" is a welcome and much-loved addition, as is the little-known "I Wish We Had Our Time Again," a later version or doppelganger, shadow song, of a 1933 Hatton Brothers tune. One could almost regard Hartford's process with that tune, not to mention his efforts to revive the fiddle music of the late Ed Haley, as a kind of foreshadowing of Trischka's own later mission with the Scruggs material.
In a larger sense, these recordings are a testimony to the contributions of all three of these musicians: the late Scruggs and Hartford, and Trischka himself, each regarded as major musical innovators and stars in their own right who also have played major roles, in different ways, in the preservation and dissemination of knowledge about the roots of the music they play -- their own music. In so doing, they are all keepers of the flame, part of a deeper musical legacy.
In the process of proselytizing the gospel of Earl Scruggs, Trischka has given us not only that great gift but also his own most mature and distinguished music to date, the culmination of a lifetime of work. Though he is already highly-respected, highly-awarded, and well-loved, here he has put his own stamp on the music that inspired him, now carrying on that tradition himself.
Béla Fleck's appreciation of Tony Trischka bears repeating: "I was fortunate to study with Tony Trischka. If Earl created the tradition single-handed, Tony developed a whole new set of strategies to use it for self-expression." That capacity for self-expression, coupled with a musical intelligence capable of figuring out ways to make Earl's jams live again in a new way, is literally extraordinary. In Picky Fingers: Earl Jam 2, Tony has made a wish come true: "I Wish We Had Our Time Again," bringing together Earl Scruggs of the 1990s with the music of today.
--Marian Leighton Levy,
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