Join: Jun 1, 2006

Name: ottlakerambler

Hometown: Marquette County, Upper Peninsula (MI)

Location: US

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Some unsolicited testimonials: "Painful. Simply painful." GD ~ Marlboro County, SC "A trainwreck in the making." LK ~ Greenbrier County, WV "No say ya. How pout somebody put da fiddle on sauna pench and chump on it, ok?" TH ~ Keweenaw County, MI "He's going nowhere. And the crazy thing is, he seems to like it that way." FB ~ Keya Paha County, NE "Rambling Dave's fiddling reminds me that I got to grease the hinges on my root cellar door." EW ~ Dubuque County, IA "I have never heard of him." SP ~ Marquette County, MI "His fiddling makes me cry." AG ~ Beaver County, PA "There but for the grace of God go I." VM ~ Wicomico County, MD "Let's blow out his pilot light and hope he never returns to YouTube." RA ~ Oconto County, WI "This guy is great!" JJ ~ Grundy County, IL

Videos (22)

Reawakening ~ Original Video and Guitar from Michigan's Upper Peninsula

  • Length: 3:53
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 23 people
  • View Count: 252' favoriteCount='2
  • Author: ottlakerambler

Tags: Acoustic  anything  but  Citalopram  Fingerpicking  Fingerstyle  Folk  Guitar  Hydrobromide  Instrumental  Lake  Love  more  Music  Original  Ott  Peninsula  Rambler  Song  Tao  than  Thoreau  Upper  Video  Watercourse  Way 

For a change of pace... scenes from my part of the country. All segments are videos that I filmed and edited, although a couple objects are so still they appear like pictures. That's me on the guitar (and brief vocals): "Reawakening," which I wrote and recorded last year. "We must learn to...

Fiddlin' Phil May with Darling Nelly Gray

  • Length: 1:18
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 8 people
  • View Count: 359
  • Author: ottlakerambler

Tags: Darling  Fiddle  Fiddling  Gray  Hiawatha  May  Music  Nelly  Old  Phil  Time  Tune 

In his 80th year, and playing since he was 70, here's my friend and mentor Fiddling Phil May of Marquette County. Darling Nelly Gray is one of his signature tunes, being played out in the yard on a fine late-summer day here in the Upper Peninsula. If you have the option, watch this video in...

Elk River Blues ~ Old Time West Virginia Fiddle Tune

  • Length: 1:1
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 14 people
  • View Count: 714' favoriteCount='5
  • Author: ottlakerambler

Tags: 1946  Appalachian  Bluegrass  Blues  Carpenter  Elk  Ernie  Fiddle  Folk  High  Jeep  Lake  Lonesome  Old  Oldtime  Ott  Rambler  River  Sound  Time  Tune  Virginia  West  Willys 

My favorite West Virginia fiddle tune, one that I learned directly from Dave Bing at last summer's Augusta Old Time Week. It's an Ernie Carpenter tune with a rather sad background. That's KJ's 1946 Willys. Without heater, or brakes, she plowed snow for many a long winter here in Michigan's...

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