Recordings by FiddleBop

Fourteen Strings: My Favourite Things. On 12-13 September 2008, Jo, Roger and I went along to Hats Off studios in Stonesfield, Oxfordshire. With the much-valued help of Michael Taylor (Thanks, Mickie!), we recorded some fourteen tracks in two days. The best eleven of these are now on our CD Fourteen Strings: My Favourite Things.

We did all the recording 'live-ish': guitar, bass and most of the fiddle parts were recorded live (all of us in the same room at the same time, but separated by windowed screens). Most of the vocals, and some of the fiddle parts were put on separately. Mickie then mixed it all together. Musically, not all is perfect, but we are pleased with the result. We think that it captures the feel of FiddleBop, live!

The cover of the CD shows us playing live at the Music at the Crossroads festival, in July 2008. And the title? Well, the fiddle has four strings, so does the bass. And the guitar has six strings. And we all love to play!

Email us if you'd like a copy of the CD. Or you can download the tracks here (mp3 format), if you'd prefer.

Whichever you choose, let us know what you think.

Honeysuckle Rose (Fats Waller) 3.9 MB
Ain't Misbehavin' (Fats Waller) 4.6 MB
Night and Day (Cole Porter) 6.5 MB
My Favourite Things (Rodgers/Hammerstein, arr. John Coltrane) 5.3 MB
Crawling Up A Hill (John Mayall) 5.3 MB
Charleston (anonymous) 3.0 MB
Black Bottom (anonymous) 3.1 MB
Thirteen-and-a-half Days In The Desert (Joanna Davies) 4.9 MB
Minor Swing (Reinhardt/Grappelli) 3.1 MB
It Don't Mean A Thing (Ellington/Mills) 3.7 MB
Baby (Joanna Davies) 4.3 MB

2006 Demo. Before this, all we'd recorded were a few tunes/songs for demo purposes.

We did this on 11 November 2006. Our friend Nick Daisley of Folly Bridge Records (who also hosts this website) brought his recording equipment along to St Andrew's church in Great Rollright, where we had set up our instruments in the nave.

Nice acoustics, but unfortunately rather cold! Which did not help our playing... Anyway, here are some snippets from the session (all in mp3 format).

St Thomas (Sonny Rollins) 1.6 MB
Charleston (anonymous) 2.2 MB
Lambeth Walk (Furber/Rose/Gay) 1.1 MB

Many thanks to Nick Daisley, and to St Andrew's church.