Grey eagle

[hedding]

anyone got a really basic melody of this song? I've heard it so many different ways I am having trouble finding just a simple melody, something I can add on to. Thanks.

[evanreilly]

Here is a good live version of the tune Grey Eagle (http://theworld.com/~ereilly/greyeagle.mp3) played by Bill Monroe. All mandolin lead!

[swampstomper]

Herschel Sizemore and his bandmates (Bobby Hicks, Craig Smith, Dale Perry, and David Parmley) have an exceptionally fine version of Back in Business (http://www.hayholler.com/hh_detail.cfm?ID__ID=4&aid=3) on Hay Holler. You can't get much more melodic than these guys. To top it off this is tabbed out in his AcuTaB transcriptions (http://www.acutab.com/artists/sizemore/book/sizemore.html).

[kudzugypsy]

yep, if your gonna learn Grey Eagle, you GOTTA get the Sizemore version. i was just listening to it this morning on my ipod - still amazes me. this aint no simple arrangement however.
this is one tune that has a great amount of interpretation, you will play this in Texas entirely different than in Virginia for example, plus the midwest has a different version - i learned my version of GE from a Byron Berline fiddle method.

you can try one of the fiddle fakebooks for a basic arrangement.

[Bernie Daniel]

Evan: "Here is a good live version of the tune Grey Eagle played by Bill Monroe. #All mandolin lead! "

Thanks for that! #

Grey Eagle is a song long in the "back of my mind" to learn -- that recording moved it to the front burner. #

Can I ask - do you know -- what era of the Monroe's career was that played? #Sounds like it was closer to the end? Maybeit is the recording but sounded like a number of missed notes in it. #Maybe played during a period when he had the strings jack up to "Bay Bridge" height?

Wondering.

[AlanN]

Them's not missed notes, boy, them's my style. You gotta a problem with that? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[Bernie Daniel]

Is that you Bill? #No nothing wrong with the picken at all -- I just need to get my ears checked right away!

[evanreilly]

Here is another good live version of Grey Eagle played by Bill Monroe; this time Bill has Chubby Wise help him on the fiddle. Grey Eagle (http://theworld.com/~ereilly/greyeagle2.mp3)