This Road This Moment: A Song History

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"This Road This Moment" is a Bing Futch composition, and its page in his songbook All Over The Map carries a 2005 copyright from J.O.B. Entertainment.[1] The book traces the tune to Clear Blue Trickling, an album by Mohave, the band Futch co-founded in 1999 and in which he played mountain dulcimer.[1][2] Apple Music gives the album's release date as September 30, 2005, and lists "This Road This Moment" as its eleventh and closing track.[3] In the sources consulted here, nothing explains the title.[1][2][3]

Hand-colored etching of a country road with horses pulling carts past a house.

Thomas Rowlandson, Horses and Carts on a Country Road, etching, hand colored, 1771–1827. Shown for its country road; it has no connection to the tune.

All Over The Map is a downloadable mountain dulcimer collection that mixes a few Futch originals with folk classics and includes an MP3 recording of each song.[1] There the tune is set in DAA tuning, and its opening section is marked to be played with a drone.[1]

Since 2006 Futch has performed as a solo act at festivals and venues around the country, and he films episodes of Dulcimerica, a long-running YouTube video series.[2] At the 2016 International Blues Challenge in Memphis he reached the finals and won the solo/duo "Best Guitarist" award while playing only the mountain dulcimer.[2]

Our book that contains the song "This Road This Moment"

Sources

  1. Bing Futch: "All Over The Map".
  2. DulcimerDownloads: "Bing Futch".
  3. Apple Music: "clear Blue Trickling" (Mohave).
  4. Image: Thomas Rowlandson, Horses and Carts on a Country Road, etching, hand colored, 1771–1827. The Cleveland Museum of Art.

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