Someday This Will All Be Underwater: A Song History
"Someday This Will All Be Underwater" is an original instrumental by Butch Ross, whose songbook credits its lead electric dulcimer part as written by him.[1] Ross recorded it as the twelfth track of A Long Way From Shady Grove, an all-instrumental album released on May 9, 2009, on which he is credited with mountain and electric mountain dulcimer, guitar, bass, keyboards, loops and laptops.[2] Ross's own Bandcamp note dates the piece to August 2008, when he improvised it on a loop pedal while playing a show at Rock City; he credits two songs, the Church's "Lost" and Yes's "Holy Lamb," as the spark for its opening phrase.[3]
Esaias van de Velde, The Great Flood of January 10, 1624 (or Repairing the Broken Dike on the River Lek by Vianen, 1624), etching, 1624. Shown for the floodwaters in the title; it has no connection to the tune.
The tune appears in A Long Way From Shady Grove, a Fingers Of Steel book of sheet music and tab drawn from the album; the listing gives the tune in DAD tuning with a capo at the third fret, along with a separate part for the lead electric dulcimer.[1]
Sources
- Fingers Of Steel: "Butch Ross, A Long Way From Shady Grove".
- Butch Ross (Bandcamp): "A Long Way From Shady Grove".
- Butch Ross (Bandcamp): "Someday This Will All Be Underwater".
- Image: Esaias van de Velde, The Great Flood of January 10, 1624 (or Repairing the Broken Dike on the River Lek by Vianen, 1624), etching, 1624. The Cleveland Museum of Art.