Used To Ain’t Here No More

Name: Used To Ain’t Here No More
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Steven Hausheer on June 29, 2024

Used To Ain’t Here No More - Ken Tillery

$14.99

SKU: RL-15 Category: Albums

Description

Description

KEN TILLERY, who offers this guitar instrumental collection, Used To Ain’t Here No More, is a bare-finger guitar instrumentalist with a preternaturally fine touch from Hot Springs, Arkansas. It doesn’t much matter if they’re simple ‘parlor’ pieces where there’s nothing to hide behind, or if they’re so layered that it normally takes two men and a boy to play them. Some relatively simple pieces – Lena Hughes’ versions of “Spanish Fandango” and “Pearly Dew,” Etta Baker’s “Carolina Breakdown” – stand up alongside medium hard pieces like Sam McGee’s “Buckdancer’s Choice” and some massive rags – “The Hink” and “Sheridan Square Rag” by Dakota Dave Hull.

Tillery learned to play from a Roy Book Binder video as a teenager and then reached out to learn in person from Roy, Hull, and Andy Cohen who produced this album. He has the wit to manage a hotel as his day job, so he can leave his job at the office and practice seriously at home. His touch and technique are so exquisite that he recorded this entire album, thirteen complex guitar instrumentals, in fourteen takes. And there wasn’t anything seriously wrong with number thirteen. Andy is just picky.

Ken makes it a point to aim high. This album includes compositions by Sam McGee, Dakota Dave Hull, Andy Cohen, Estil Ball, Hacksaw Harney, J. Bodewalte Lampe, Etta Baker and Lena Hughes. These are hardly his outer limits. At the moment, he is apprenticing on five string classic banjo with maestro Clarke Buehling.

Release Date: March 15, 2024

Musicians

Ken Tillery, vocals and guitars

Track List

Grandfather’s Clock 3:28 Henry C. Work, EMI Music Pub. Group OBO EMI Robbins Catalog Inc.
Spanish Fandango 3:26 Henry Worrall, Arrangement by Ken Tillery, Riverlark Publishing
The Evergreen Glide 4:06 Ken Tillery, Riverlark Publishing
The Hink 5:02 Dakota Dave Hull, Arabica Music
Carolina Breakdown 3:02 Etta Baker, Lucky Guitar Music
Buck Dancer’s Choice 2:53 Sam McGee, BMG Gold Songs OBO Uncle Fuller Music
Pearly Dew 2:47 Traditional, Arrangement by Ken Tillery, Riverlark Publishing
Knoxville Blues 4:03 Sam McGee, BMG Gold Songs OBO Uncle Fuller Music
Chow Time 2:46 Estil Cortez Ball, Copyright Estil Cortez Ball
1Sheridan Square Rag 5:59 Dakota Dave Hull, Arabica Music
Sweet Man 3:43 Richard Hacksaw Harney, Blind Basement Music c/o Adelphi Records
Creole Belles 3:47 J. Bodewalde Lampe, Warner Chappell Music Inc. OBO Warner Bros. Music, a Division of Warner Bros. Inc.
Planxty: Miss Joanna Swan 2:41 Andrew M. Cohen, Earwig Music Company Inc.