Cover of Ukrainian folk song Chervona Ruta
Posted Fri, 09/10/2021 - 10:37 by Burd
Harmonica sounds fantastic in blues. But I was wondering if it could sound cool in the Ukrainian folk music. All of my attempts to find harmonica covers of it gave nothing. So I tried to do it myself with my current knowledge of harmonica. Here is information about original song https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chervona_Ruta_(song). You might watch it on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV_4XvldJw0.
Since I do not have good backing track for it, I tried to play solo. It sounds quite different from original. And I am wonder if it is possible to create better solo cover of this song for harmonica. Guess yes, but do not have good ideas how to do that.
Thank you in advance for your feedback and advices!
Comments
Very nice
Nicely done! Having become popularly known in the Ukraine as a traditional folk song, despite having been composed in 1968, it shares a trait with an American song I may share soon, "Ashokan Farewell," which was used in a TV documentary about the U.S Civil War (1860-1865), and was thought by many to have been a traditional song from that era, notwithstanding that it was written in 1982 by the manager of a music camp in Ashokan, New York State. But then as Louis Armstrong is famously quoted about jazz being "folk" music: "all music is folk music; I ain't never heard no horse sing a song,"