After a good night’s sleep, I feel up to composing a few words to post. I didn’t have one yesterday because I hit the bag about 1:30 a.m. and got up at 6:45 a.m. to walk the dogs. I was pretty much brain-fried all day. That was after two days of essentially the same hours: Wednesday night was a jam session until 1 a.m., Thursday was a TV shoot and discussion afterward until 1:15 a.m. Poor, poor pitiful me.

The Friday night action was more fun, though. First, I spent a couple of hours watching Flamenco dancing by the Flamenco Louisville troupe at the Mellwood Arts & Entertainment Center (and got a new Harmonica Red CD), then I drove downtown to the BBC-Theatre Square to catch Arnett Hollow, which had been touted to me by my friend Brian White. AH is a five-piece: banjo, guitar, fiddle, double bass and full drum kit, which makes it sorta bluegrass but not really. Drums are verboten in bluegrass, ya know.

The opening act, a trio calling themselves DL, had some excellent guitar-based originals and were pretty impressive themselves, but Arnett Hollow - and particularly the leader, Chris Rodahaffer - put them in the shade. Rodahaffer, quite simply, is the fastest flat-picker I ever saw, and I’ve seen a bunch of them. Besides that, he can write songs. The admission included a new eponymous CD, which will get reviewed shortly, so I won’t write much more, except this: both Brian and I are pickers and we agreed that we either had to practice a whole lot more or quit the instrument altogether.

— PMM

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