Keeper1st | "When You're On Your Last Go-Round" played by Anthony Sarginson, with Martin Spitznagel @Keeper1st | Uploaded September 2018 | Updated October 2024, 3 days ago.
Martin on the left has not heard this tune before, so he's just following along figuring it out from watching and listening to Anthony play. This blues number was a favorite of Tom Brier, which he had transcribed from a piano roll medley at the request of the late John Motto-Ros. Tom often would break into this piece at ragtime meetings and riff on it for 10 minutes or more, especially with flute player Julia Riley.
Anthony, being the biggest Tom Brier fan, of course had to learn this piece because it was something Tom liked to play! He asked Martin to join in where he could here at this after-hours party during the 2018 Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival. By the end Martin is able to add a lot.
The composer of this piece probably is unknown. The piano roll medley it came from has a catalog number of 6311S and was paired with another blues piece called "Dyin' with the Blues".
Although Tom broke into this piece a lot, I never recorded it. Chip Lusby did record an early performance, however, with Motto-Ros seated in the background: youtube.com/watch?v=d0wU-7JmhIM and then after that video ended, Tom, being the playful person that he was (actually still is despite his limited physical abilities since the 2016 accident), had even more fun with it: youtube.com/watch?v=Hsh9-wYder0 (with some chilling foreshadowing spoken by Tom at the beginning).
See Anthony's YouTube channel for more performances by him (including many Brier compositions, of course!): youtube.com/channel/UCG7P3wkfrvpFXoetgyXp2rQ
Martin on the left has not heard this tune before, so he's just following along figuring it out from watching and listening to Anthony play. This blues number was a favorite of Tom Brier, which he had transcribed from a piano roll medley at the request of the late John Motto-Ros. Tom often would break into this piece at ragtime meetings and riff on it for 10 minutes or more, especially with flute player Julia Riley.
Anthony, being the biggest Tom Brier fan, of course had to learn this piece because it was something Tom liked to play! He asked Martin to join in where he could here at this after-hours party during the 2018 Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival. By the end Martin is able to add a lot.
The composer of this piece probably is unknown. The piano roll medley it came from has a catalog number of 6311S and was paired with another blues piece called "Dyin' with the Blues".
Although Tom broke into this piece a lot, I never recorded it. Chip Lusby did record an early performance, however, with Motto-Ros seated in the background: youtube.com/watch?v=d0wU-7JmhIM and then after that video ended, Tom, being the playful person that he was (actually still is despite his limited physical abilities since the 2016 accident), had even more fun with it: youtube.com/watch?v=Hsh9-wYder0 (with some chilling foreshadowing spoken by Tom at the beginning).
See Anthony's YouTube channel for more performances by him (including many Brier compositions, of course!): youtube.com/channel/UCG7P3wkfrvpFXoetgyXp2rQ
