Al Caldwell

Al Caldwell is an R&B musician who mainly plays the bass guitar and banjo with the Travelling Black Hillbillies. He is also a studio engineer and producer.

Al Caldwell
BornSt. Louis, Missouri, United States
GenresR&B
Occupation(s)Instrumentalist, studio engineer, producer
InstrumentsClarinet, trumpet, bass guitar, banjo
Associated actsTravelling Black Hillbillies
Websitewww.tbhillbilly.com

Career

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Caldwell started out as a clarinet player and moved on to the trumpet. He attended Mississippi Valley State on scholarship.[1] He has played for a variety of entertainers including Vanessa Williams,[2] He also works for hire on studio albums as a session musician. He has performed on a number of television shows.

When Caldwell plays electric bass, he usually performs using Extended-range basses, (or "ERBs"), which are electric bass guitars with more range (usually meaning more strings, but sometimes additional frets are added for more range) than the "standard" 4-string bass guitar. The techniques used to play the extended-range bass are closely related to those used for basses, including finger plucking, slapping, popping, and tapping, though a plectrum is very rarely used. The upper strings of an extended-range bass allow bassists to adopt playing styles of the electric guitar. One such style is the practice of "comping", or playing a rhythmic chordal accompaniment to an improvised solo. Al Caldwell was the first MIDI 9 string bassist. Conklin Basses made the first Midi 9 string for Al Caldwell. Al Caldwell had Benavente Basses make the first 11 string MIDI bass.

Discography
  • 2004 9 String Human Being - Baby Al Music
  • 2004 Good Livin - Baby Al Music
  • 2004 Hillbilly Soul - Baby Al Music
  • 2004 Hootananny Soul - Baby Al Music
  • 2005 Hell if I know - Baby Al Music
  • 2005 Forbidden - Baby Al Music
  • 2005 Bass for Lovers - Baby Al Music
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gollark: (or even, by multilaterating the position of the computer sending the GPS ping, break GPS for *specific locations*, to make them... possibly harder to target for some things, I don't know)
gollark: (which reminded me of some other evil idea someone came up with - the `gps` API sends your computer's ID with GPS pings, so in theory, if you controlled most GPS servers in one dimension, you could completely mess up or subtly offset certain people's GPS)
gollark: I also added a small note to https://wiki.computercraft.cc/Gps.locate about the results not always being reliable, since GPS is kind of vulnerable to spoofing.

References
  1. "Al Caldwell and the Travelling Hillbillies". Archived from the original on 2007-01-01. Retrieved 2006-12-05.
  2. "Al Caldwell Broadens the Bass". Archived from the original on 2006-04-26. Retrieved 2006-12-05.
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