Chris Thile & Michael Daves: Forked Deer / Big Sciota

Recorded live at The Bell House in Brooklyn.
Chris Thile, mandolin; Michael Daves, guitar.

[gbvxquh]

They're so natural. It's like watching some rare exotic birds do a mating dance. Who can take their eyes and ears off of them? Not I. These two are so different, yet so equally paired by their voice through the music. Daves is the intense genius introvert, who seems like the voice of the hillbilly mountains, all cleaned up in a white dress shirt; and Thile is the polished showman with the chosen, rumpled style. Somehow, introvert and extrovert, expert artifice and authentic introversion, are on the same level through musicianship. Dave's voice is just like Thile's mandolin, when Daves' sings. his guitar is eonly xcellent, but his voice is like a mountain god.

[franklamontagne]

I thought I was a musician but now I understand I'm just a clown playing some chords around a campfire, lol.

[ellieheath]

This is the video I watch when I’m sad. Absolutely phenomenal

[keittkatranch]

Can't believe this has been on here for eight years and no one has commented! Great job 😮

[daggad]

Wow THAT was impressive !
This is the best piece of Bluegrass I have heard in a long time.Sorry Billy..
Fantastic !

[drummerboy]

Breathtaking.
This is what happens when two virtuosos get together. Pure magic happens.

[williamtrakas]

the dual-improvisation on big sciota that starts around 5:35 is just phenomenal: they are so instantly responsive to each others thematics, dynamic changes, where they need to be range-wise to complement each other and fill the sound spectrum. I couldn't come close to writing counterpoint like that, and thile-daves are doing it on the spot!

[hiddenhome]

WARP SPEED MR. SULU! my brain barely comprehends the tune of Big Sciota these fellas are so fast!!!!

[davestagner]

That tempo shift when going to Big Sciota. Wow.

[jamesoliver]

There ARE lyrics to "Big Sciota".

[hottoddy]

Ha! Thile is hammered in this video, and still rips it up better than anyone.

[bobriddle]

It's not for me to understand how one could not like this?

[BradMaestas]

I wanted to be at this show but it sold out quick. Glad I can see it here!

[omarobre]

YOU ARE AMAZING GUYS!!!!...

Wonderful song.... :)

[rapidroha]

I thought I didn't like blue grass until my music teacher sent me this video!! WOW AMAZING!!

[tomthorpe]

OMG! They're "off the hook!" Thile is super human. He was born with a mandolin in his hands I think!

[stevehuot]

There is a reason Chris Thile and Nickel Creek recorded their first album at the age of 14 (and kudos to the Watkins, who are amazing as well), and won the MacArthur Genius Grant at the age of 31, has recorded with Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Jerry Douglas, founded the Punch Brothers, and now hosts Live From Here. He is a flat-out genius who hangs around with like people. Oh, to have him sitting around the campfire with me and my friends!

[cybs]

And, I like the way they share the mic!

[gbvxquh]

The "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" of stringed instrument combos. Thile, "I shoot better when I like Sundance...Ha!

[patrickohaodha]

Michael Daves is one of the few people who can show Thile up when it comes to improvising around a fiddle tune man