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Greg Fair

Old-time! Get your old-time!!

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I like playing fiddle tunes on the mandolin, particularly model tunes and rowdy dance tunes. I also play the guitar. Recently, I've been reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez. "As long as every wall is threatened, the world can happen" (Tom Robbins).I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

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Music:

Member Since: 1/29/2007
Band Website: varnishcooks.com
Band Members: I play with Ben Proctor (banjo on "Honey Babe"), Ryan Griffith, and Greg Paul, and we are the Varnish Cooks.
Influences: Dirk Powell, Mogwai, Foghorn Stringband, Joanna Newsom, Rage Against The Machine, Mike Seeger, New Lost City Ramblers, Iron and Wine, Rich Mullins, MMW, Fuzzy Mountain Stringband, Modest Mouse, Nirvana, Elliott Smith, Highwoods Stringband, Steve Earle, Bruce Molsky, Pedro The Lion, Riley Baugus, Bela Fleck, Radiohead, Doc Watson, Tim O'Brien, White Stripes, Jose Gonzalez, Smashing Pumpkins, Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings, Sufjan Stevens, Alice In Chains, Roscoe Holcomb, Silversun Pickups, The Original Missouri Corn Dodgers, Neil Young, Patty Griffin, Dolorean, Jim Kimball, Sigur Ros, DJ Hercio, The Flying Burrito Brothers/Gram Parsons, System of a Down, Tool, ///// Authors, etc.:Leslie Marmon Silko, Emily Dickinson, Stokely Carmichael, James Joyce, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sounds Like: Sucker-punch intensity and emotional clarity; sincerity
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New Developments

The Varnish Cooks, the old-time stringband I play in, has a bunch of gig coming up (and we've already played a handful this summer). Lot's of fun. I'm really excited about some gospel tunes I've been ...
Posted by Greg Fair on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:16:00 PST

New Old Poems

I wrote these poems 4 or 5 years ago and just recently found them. Let me know what you think!! Afterward   The marsh burned and rippled a painful green.   The boy peered from his win...
Posted by Greg Fair on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:51:00 PST

Organic Beginnings: A Lifetime of Music

There is an ethnomusicologist named Jim Kimball in Geneseo, NY who has been digging up, documenting, and playing fiddle tunes for the last 30 years. He has amassed probably about 2000 tunes, and many ...
Posted by Greg Fair on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:38:00 PST

Song Sources

Honey Babe--Dirk Powell Sow 'Em On The Mountain--Foghorn Stringband Wild Hog In The Woods--Fuzzy Mountain String Band Zollie's Retreat--Dirk Powell Yew Piney Mountain--Appalachian Fiddle, Miles Krasse...
Posted by Greg Fair on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:02:00 PST

I love New York

Enjoy the sounds of mando incubated in a 55 degree apartment...
Posted by Greg Fair on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:52:00 PST

Snow Walk Through Downtown Rochester

The snow muted everything. It was unsettlingly silent; eerily, beautifully silent. Nature reduced/moved/called all vehicles to reverence. They became a great herd of migrating beasts, following, follo...
Posted by Greg Fair on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:09:00 PST