It's not point-and-laugh. Really. These are just two people playing the music they believe in. And in that sense, it's some of the best music ever made.
May 23, 2009 4:47 AM   Subscribe

Rod and Joann Mainhood, from Oregon City, on guitar and accordion, performing "When I Was Hungry Lord You Fed Me". Rod's yodeling in the home stretch is not to be missed.
posted by flapjax at midnite (36 comments total) 6 users marked this as a favorite
 
Awesome
posted by Catblack at 4:52 AM on May 23, 2009


And the chorus!
posted by robcorr at 5:26 AM on May 23, 2009


Nice find.
posted by allkindsoftime at 5:35 AM on May 23, 2009


One more yodel!
posted by lordrunningclam at 5:37 AM on May 23, 2009


umm, if you shout out "here ya go!" in the middle of a song, shouldn't something happen?
posted by kitchenrat at 6:03 AM on May 23, 2009 [1 favorite]


I love it. Just regular folks doing regular music.
posted by RussHy at 6:07 AM on May 23, 2009


The yodeling was the good part.
posted by Jikido at 6:23 AM on May 23, 2009


Thank you so much for this.
posted by Captain Cardanthian! at 6:38 AM on May 23, 2009


Having. Operating. Chimera.
posted by Mblue at 6:41 AM on May 23, 2009


I love accordions.
posted by ocherdraco at 7:02 AM on May 23, 2009


Tree jacks. Culvert. Less gfhanas.
posted by Mblue at 7:05 AM on May 23, 2009


Well, not bad. I preferred the yodeling as I cannot relate to cheesy god-love.

But:

RussHy: "Just regular folks doing regular music."

what. Are you being ironic?
posted by defenestration at 7:20 AM on May 23, 2009


Relax, I just meant they are not professionals. Didn't mean anything negative at all.
posted by RussHy at 7:28 AM on May 23, 2009


I always wondered what happened to this woman.
posted by HuronBob at 7:34 AM on May 23, 2009


Nah it's cool. It makes sense that there is a cross-section between folk music and DIY/punk/etc music—y'know, the whole nonprofessionals doing what they want to do thing.

I wasn't quite sure what you meant. I had election flashbacks: real America, regular people, etc. I'm glad you didn't mean it that way.
posted by defenestration at 7:36 AM on May 23, 2009


Well...the yodeling was good. Something I can't seem to master.
posted by Miko at 7:40 AM on May 23, 2009


Yeah, wouldn't it be cool, Miko, to really be able to yodel? I've been thinking of trying to learn, but I've never gotten around to starting...

And even though ol' Rod does get a little pitchy with it here and there, the way he really goes for it there at the very end is an impressive display of, well, throwing caution to the wind!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:45 AM on May 23, 2009


Wow, that feller is ONE LETTER OFF from being called "Rod Manhood".

I enjoyed this. I like to think of Rod and Joann rocking out after supper. That's a nice life.
posted by dirtdirt at 7:54 AM on May 23, 2009 [1 favorite]


These folks are the finest kind. Love how people are so stony-faced on these shows sometimes. Great find, Flaps!
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 8:05 AM on May 23, 2009


I've been sitting on a really interesting link of amateur gospel music from around the country. I've been hesitant to post it on the blue because I expect it might get really raked over the coals for both being gospel, and for some of it being really homely music. But your post here, flap, has given me the gumption to post it. I'll post it tomorrow, bein' appropriate for Sunday and all.
posted by Miko at 8:20 AM on May 23, 2009 [1 favorite]


Do it Miko! Even this godless liberal can appreciate some good gospel music.
posted by defenestration at 8:24 AM on May 23, 2009


Yeah, don't fear the haters.
posted by RussHy at 8:26 AM on May 23, 2009


Is this what we're using now that Rick Astley is passe again?
posted by Panjandrum at 8:27 AM on May 23, 2009


It was good. Not as good as the last Flapjax accordion post, but it's gonna be hard to post something as good as that one twice on the trot.

Also: Rod Manhood is my new porn star alter ego name, as of right now.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 8:28 AM on May 23, 2009


I like to think of Rod and Joann rocking out after supper.

When I read this, I flashed back to the one of the original meanings of the expression and my mind was filled with a vision of Rod and Joann 'rocking' all over the dining table.

Not an image I care to repeat, but one that I couldn't resist inflicting upon the rest of you.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 8:37 AM on May 23, 2009


At the chorus, I keep imagining him seguing into "I wanna thank you / For puttin' me / Back in my snail shell" which is the only thing that could possibly improve this.

Miko, I am an atheist but I love bluegrass gospel. It's profoundly human and beautiful. I'd encourage you.
posted by Countess Elena at 8:54 AM on May 23, 2009


Yes, it's great that regular people like this get together & sing, and that he can do the funny switching thing with his voice.

But if you have ever had to suffer through evangelical church services, you will know that the baby-consciousness shot through every last inanely-repeated chorus of one of these songs – the awfulness of overhead-projector-led crowd-singing infesting every last phrase like a poisonous pablum – has you sweating helplessly and eyeing the door, praying to sweet Satan for help.

No matter if a nigga can yodel.
posted by gorgor_balabala at 9:07 AM on May 23, 2009


Flap -- Good one. i like the gal. It's not easy to grin like that and play the accordian at the same time. Take it from me. But for my money, the best yodeler of the past 25 years has been Ranger Doug. He achieves a warm, liquid, quaver, with fine control, and generally some nice and unexpected melodic twists. Here he is singing-yodeling "Pinto Pal." But his finest recorded yodel winds up Riders in the Sky's "Back in the Saddle," which ah cain't find at present.
posted by Faze at 9:35 AM on May 23, 2009


Faze, thank you. In defense of good music (although you're not shitting on the poor everyman churchgoer like me– sorry about that), THAT had actual chords, actual modulation, and was very, very fine. There's something to be said for actual musicians who understand it, out there deserving our approval.
posted by gorgor_balabala at 10:10 AM on May 23, 2009


That was fun!

I have been listening to a lot of Vestal Goodman lately. Even a godless old heathen can love her competition with Johnny Cook to sing higher in 'Looking for a City'.
posted by winna at 10:40 AM on May 23, 2009 [1 favorite]


That is a perfect example of the type of people you'd find week after week on Stacey's Country Jamboree, mentioned earlier by boost ventilator.
posted by LeLiLo at 11:06 AM on May 23, 2009


umm, if you shout out "here ya go!" in the middle of a song, shouldn't something happen?

... you mean besides a smokin' accordion solo?
posted by BitterOldPunk at 1:05 PM on May 23, 2009 [1 favorite]


...out there deserving our approval.

Well, of course, we all know that the *approval* of the discerning Metafilter audience is surely the most cherished and highly-sought-after goal of professional and amateur musicians everywhere. I don't think anyone would question that.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:03 PM on May 23, 2009


there aren't enough bhong hits in the world.....
posted by OHenryPacey at 6:13 PM on May 23, 2009


GONG!! Tell it to St. Peter.
posted by gorgor_balabala at 9:29 PM on May 23, 2009


I have entered the twilight zone...
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