NOFX They've Actually Gotten Worse Live CD

The cd strats off with the hard driving mopuntain ballad Poor Ellen Smith followed by a Kentucky blues version of the classic House of The Rising Sun, My Katy is a super fast dance tune, Dear Mother is Acie's reading of a letter from his mother when he left home at age 17. This section concludes with a dynamic gospel song Church By The Side of the Creek.

Next up is the finest woman singer in all of bluegrass music, grammy nominee Claire Lynch singing the JJ Cale song, If You're Ever In Oklahoma.

The cd then has excerpts from two live concerts with two of the world's fastest and most interesting banjo players.

First is JR Prater and his son Jay on guitar and singing lead with Acie on fiddle, Jerry Clemons Sr on mandolin and the incredible Gerald Couch on bass playing very traditional songs at the Three Stooges in Cedar Lake, Indiana. Next is former Tennessee Railsplitters banjoist Bill Jackson acompanied by Acie on fiddle and the Rogers Brothers, This section at the Lick Skillet in Aetna Green, Alabama opens with a prayer by Jack Clausing for the troops and concludes with a rousing Jesus Hold My Hand.

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95BiographyAcie Cargill was born into a musical family. His grandmother was Hattie Mae Tyler Cargill, a noted Kentucky singer of traditional ballads. She was the last of the Tylers, a family noted for being strict preservationists of the musical traditions passed along for many generations from Northern England /Southern Scotland. The tunes that they sung all used primitive scales. They were unique in their area in that they played instruments along with the ballads and the instruments all used special tunings that allowed the ancient tunes to be played without adding obstrusive notes to the performance.

Acie knows all those scales and tunings and has been recorded for the Library of Congress, singing some of the old songs he knows and playing the 5 string banjo in the Tyler drop-thumb style. He is considered the living master of this style.

The family lived in very secluded areas without electricity and they were not exposed to the newer types of music that swept through the US that featured the piano or the guitar using the 6 string guitar chords that are so prevalent today. In the Tyler music, there are no 3-note chords, just moving modal melodies.