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This Whole Wide World Around

from Long Train A​-​Rollin' by Marc Nerenberg

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I wanted to record something uplifting, that wasn't a usual Christmas song, for the holiday season near the end of the otherwise endlessly bleak year of 2020. My initial idea was to record an instrumental version on banjo and harmonica of the old blues/gospel song "Needed Time" (AKA "Come By Here" or "Daniel in the Lion's Den"). But once I started working on it, I found myself making up a new stanza (swiping the original lyrics of the first line) that puts into words the sentiment I was aiming for. So I recorded it with that new stanza being sung once near the beginning, and again at the end of the song, with the rest of it being the banjo/harmonica duet that I had set out to record. It seems to me that the inclusion of this single sung stanza turns it into a sort of musical greeting card, with the music standing in for the picture on the front, and the lyrics being what's written inside. This was recorded on 19 December 2020, and was played using mostly old-time thumb lead two finger picking style (with occasional dashes of clawhammer) on a banjo tuned gFCFA, along with a Bb harmonica played cross keyed in F.

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from Long Train A​-​Rollin', released August 2, 2021

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Marc Nerenberg Montreal, Québec

Marc Nerenberg is a veteran Montreal folksinger who plays old time banjo styles and blues harmonica. He has a narrative- centric repertoire, recounting stories in song and wrapping stories around songs. You may “be drawn in by a combination of Marc’s mastery of traditional banjo styles, his idiosyncratic singing, and [his] richly detailed ballads.” (Mike Regenstreif – Folk Roots/Folk Branches 2019) ... more

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