Wil Maring
Posted by woodnbone on May 15, 2008
I have been on a Wil Maring kick tonight. She and Robert Bowlin have such a wonderful, refreshing sound; they are the real deal. Check out this video of them singing “Sunny Side of the Mountain:”
The way Bowlin’s fiddle comes in at about 0:54:00 just slays me ever time.
I figured her part out tonight. She is in open G tuning, capoed on the fourth fret, which really gives the D-18 (hers and mine) just a great voicing — big, dry, and woody.
EDIT: Wil Maring replied to my comment on this video on Youtube. She confirmed what I had thought about the tuning, although she is actually playing a D-21, which are great Brazilian Rosewood Martins. They are simply appointed like the D-18, but rosewood back and sides. Than you to Wil for responding. How cool is that!
