INSTRUMENTALIST SAMPLES

Electric Guitar:

  • "Blue Tulip" from Okkervil River's The Stand Ins (excerpt)
  • Jazz guitar:  An arrangement of Joe Pass's "Blues for Alican"  (excerpt)

Mandolin:


  • J.S. Bach Goldberg Variations, Variation 1, with Joel Hobbs on mandola (rehearsal excerpt)
  • "Love to A Monster" from Okkervil River's Overboard and Down (full song)

Piano:

  • "Prelude no. 21 in B-flat major" J.S. Bach (full)
  • "Huddersfield" from Black Before Red (full song)

Pedal Steel:


  • "A Girl in Port" Okkervil River The Stage Names (excerpt)
  • Pedal steel and string arrangments: "True Love Cast Out All Evil" Roky Erickson (full song)

String Arrangements:


  • "The Valley" from Okkervil River's I Am Very Far (excerpt) 
  •  "I Don't Know" from Oh No Oh My's People Problems (excerpt)
  • from Roky Erickson's True Love Cast Out All Evil: pedal steel and string arrangements (full song) 

Banjo:

  • Banjo, keyboard, background vocals:  "So Special" from Black Before Red's upcoming record (song)
  • Scruggs-style traditional bluegrass:  "Wildwood flower" (excerpt)
  • clawhammer: "Rock of Ages" by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings (banjo part)