Tim obrien talks doc watson11/29/2023 My mom’s brother played piano well, and there are various cousins on my dad’s side that play and sing, though I wasn’t much aware of that fact until much later. My parents sang for fun, just a verse or two in the middle of doing something else. My sister started singing and playing before me, and my oldest brother sang some doo-op for fun. I was able to get her to sing harmony on two songs on my next record. You’ve put out a few CDs with your sister Mollie. If for some reason, you absolutely could not make music now, what would you do instead? After unloading a truckload of flagstone one day, my back told me to work harder on my guitar playing. There was some hard physical labour there and I didn’t hold up to too well. After I quit school, I worked at a tree nursery to save money to buy a car and go on my walkabout. I taught skiing there, believe it or not, and at one point I drove tourists around on a little train. I worked in the public park in my hometown, picking up trash, then graduated to more responsibility. Have you had to do other jobs to support yourself along the way to where you are now, and if so, what was the most interesting or the most odd? One of my earliest memories is running into the kitchen to tell my mom that the cowboys were on TV. My friends had cheap electric guitars and I’d been learning riffs on one string – like the theme from Peter Gunn - from them before I got my own guitar.Īs a child, did you ever want to be anything other than a musician – you know, the usual – truck driver, fireman, pilot etc? “Go Tell Aunt Rhodey” and “Down in the Valley” with one the one finger C chord and the one ginger G7 chord. I learned a few Christmas songs that November and then got a little Harmony guitar and taught myself from a beginner’s guitar book. I was 12 years old and my sister was taking piano lessons and I had started fooling with the piano, so my parents offered to give me lessons. When, for example, did you first pick up an instrument, and what were the circumstances? Tell us a bit about the young Tim O’Brien.
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