A Father's Day Tribute
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:39 pm
As a Father's Day tribute, I am posting two tunes for my father, George Keener, RIP 2003.
The first is a tune is one I wrote for him and my "second musical father", Chet Atkins (RIP 2001) [Tune recorded last year]
http://youtu.be/MbGEAnFDv5Q
George Keener was of course my father, a great father, in every respect, and also the greatest man I have ever known. But Chet was also a true musical father to me ... without the influence of both my Dad and Chet, I probably would never have even picked a guitar up.
The second tune is one that was made popular by the late, great Jerry Reed: Papa's Knee. This is my rendering of it, in a slightly different D-tuning than Jerry used (6th dropped to D, 3rd dropped to F#). I have associated this tune with my Dad ever since it came out, some 40 or so years ago.
http://youtu.be/nLm-bUaG_l0
I used the slightly different D tuning than Jerry did because I just wanted to see how moving some of his fourth string action to the third string would work. It made playing the tune easier is some respects and harder in others, pretty much as you would expect when "you change gears" on a tune.
Anyway, this of course is intended for your listening pleasure, but it is most especially intended as an honoring of my fathers.
The first is a tune is one I wrote for him and my "second musical father", Chet Atkins (RIP 2001) [Tune recorded last year]
http://youtu.be/MbGEAnFDv5Q
George Keener was of course my father, a great father, in every respect, and also the greatest man I have ever known. But Chet was also a true musical father to me ... without the influence of both my Dad and Chet, I probably would never have even picked a guitar up.
The second tune is one that was made popular by the late, great Jerry Reed: Papa's Knee. This is my rendering of it, in a slightly different D-tuning than Jerry used (6th dropped to D, 3rd dropped to F#). I have associated this tune with my Dad ever since it came out, some 40 or so years ago.
http://youtu.be/nLm-bUaG_l0
I used the slightly different D tuning than Jerry did because I just wanted to see how moving some of his fourth string action to the third string would work. It made playing the tune easier is some respects and harder in others, pretty much as you would expect when "you change gears" on a tune.
Anyway, this of course is intended for your listening pleasure, but it is most especially intended as an honoring of my fathers.