Learn "Speed Trap Town" on River Dulcimer

Jason Isbell's "Speed Trap Town" is a poignant song that beautifully captures the essence of small-town life and the just the raw pain of growing up. I made this tutorial on a Cumberland prototype river dulcimer, but it'll work on about any dulcimer guitar style instrument (see below Seagull Merlin version).

This version was made in 2019 with my friend Syneva Colle on cello. I rather think that the dulcimer and cello combo sounds pretty rad, but I'm biased.  And Syneva is such an incredible player, I suspect everything sounds better.  (She has since gone on to get her doctorate in cello... yeah, Dr. Cello.  What am I even doing with my life?)

     

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