I haven't been around much since a quite while (besides lurking etc.), so it's about time for a new little contribution. Here is Beaumont Rag on CA: link #2.
I got the idea from a clip that shows Nout and his dog in a little train station in France, and this is the tune he plays. It is very well suited for CA.
You can play it "swing" style or Cajun style, and of course I prefer the last of the two in this case. It's a pity that the sound is so lousy. From now on I will use a different camera.
Criticism, complaints and questions are more than welcome!

Nice squeezing Peer - I like to see songs that are not part of the traditional cajun/zydeco repetoire played on a cajun box, and you seem to have the knack to get it sounding right.. I like your take on 'Honky Tonk Woman' also.

Well, sorry Peer it's not Cajun style; was just beginning to get used to a onerow at the time anyway. 'Bout this tune; just sat around messing around waiting for a train that never came at Liernais, France. There was a road sign for Beaumont 3km, while wife was videoing the surroundings and butterflies, and it's just about how i always played Beaumont Rag on my me ole friggin' fiddle, but on a fiddle you play it in F usually:



- Nout

I was talking about my own clip brother Nout, not about yours!
Maybe I should have said "Two Step Rhythm" instead of "Cajun Style", for that is what I meant. Maybe I'll try to post a Beaumont Rag in swing rhythm, so you know what I mean. It makes a huge difference.
What I said about your stationvideo, is that it's a great idea to do this one on a CA, and that's a fact!

Europeans, you gotta love them.

I LOVE it, Peer!!!!! Great sound! I think I might even like it better if you did it "swingy" ala Ed Poullard - sounds right up his alley. Jolly good show!!

BTW, is that a National dobro over your left shoulder, or maybe a National copy, like a Johnson? Is it a squareneck? A tri-cone? I traded off one of my old keyboard accordions for a squareneck resonator (Regal) about 6 weeks ago, and have been happily making noise with it ever since. I also spent some money at Janet Davis music, just up the road here, and put a new cone, inserts, spider, nut, and strings on it. IT sounds pretty good, even if I don't, but I love fooling around on it. Pedal steel has always been my fantasy second choice, behind the accordion . . .

Thanks, Jamey, I'll try a swingy version too, if I can. I hardly played CA since a few months, this was my first trial for something new. It's always nice to discover new possibilities on just these ten buttons.
On most of my videos there are three stringed instruments in the background.
The tricone is a tweaked Johnson (a Chinese). I bought it second hand for a few hundred euros. The brown resonator is a Johnson too, also bought second hand. The first owner had put in a different cone already. I've always been a fan of prewar blues guitarists like Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller and the like, and I've always dreamed of having guitars like that. When the Chinese started making "fakes" of decent quality, (not like Arietta) they came into range. All guitars have a rounded neck, and none of them top quality.
The OME banjo was inherited from a deceased friend. I play it quite a lot these days (more than te CA I must admit). This is a very good instrument.
On my Youtube channel petraki53 you will find some blues and banjo stuff!

On website #3 a "swing"version.
Better camera, better sound.
I hope you like it!

Can't wait! But right now I have gumbo and an impending jam to attend to. Ciao! And Chow!