Thread killer, they call me.
Working on Spotted Pony, and also a tune that was on the New Standards Flatpicking Guitar album with David Grier and Kenny Smith called Song for Emily.
Here's Kenny Smith playing it on his Collings OM2H guitar. (Haven't found a mandolin version to emulate, but at least you can get the gist.)
Here's Two from Cole's 1001 Fiddle Tunes, Under the Double Eagle and Nicodemus Johnson
Bill Cheatham and Salt Creek. Mostly from Bob Grants book. With some Ben Clark extras thrown in. (For me) most of Ben's stuff is a bit too non-traditional for jam circles, but cherry picking licks from his lessons make a traditional piece a little more fun to play.
St. Anne's Reel. Just watched a youtube video of Joe Walsh at Joe Val festival playing this tune. What great phrasing and touch he has.
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to leave alone."
These Old Blues, off James Alan Shelton record, Adam Steffey on the burn.
Fiddle tune? No. Hot stuff? Yes.
Alan. Is that the 'and Friends' album with Krauss and Steffey?
This one. RIP, JAS
Love to hear my fiddlen' friends play this one... "Waynesboro" ...Old-time fiddle tune
And one more OT tune I've been working on called "Ways of the World"
I Pick, Therefore I Grin! ... "Good Music Any OLD-TIME"
1922 Gibson F2
2006 Gibson F5 Goldrush
2015 Martin HD28-V
2017 Gibson J45
In honor of my new granddaughter, born Thursday, I'm working on "The Pleasures of Hope" from O'Niell's "Dance Music of Ireland". (Her name is Hope.)
Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
--William Shakespeare
Lot's of new tunes being learned here, as band members agree that we need to reinvigorate the set list. These include: Dry and Dusty, Duck River, Saturday Night Breakdown, Hey Girl, Cape Breton Home, Quiet Waltz.
Explore some of my published music here.
—Jim
Sierra F5 #30 (2005)
Altman 2-point (2007)
Portuguese fado cittern (1965)
Shove That Pig's Foot a Little Further in the Fire...what a fun tune....anyone know any of the "back story to this tune?
Sandy
Straight from the Brittany Haas/Dominick Leslie/Greg Liszt Master Class at "Mandolines de Lunel" (a mandolin festival in the South of France) last Autumn, where I learned the tune:
Dominick Leslie: So the story that I've heard about this tune is that there were a couple of thieves who escaped from prison, and they stole a pig. And the cops were looking for them, they were looking for the stolen pig, you know, and so they saw the cops come in and... "Hey man, shove that pig's foot a little further into the fire so the cops won't see it."
Brittany Haas: (laughs) That's a great story.
Dominick: So... I'm not sure it's actually true.
Brittany: That's really more interesting than what I've heard.
Dominick: What have you heard?
Brittany: It was that the pig's foot is, like, another way to call a fire poker.
Dominick: Oh. That's probably right.
[…]
There's a lovely video of Sarah Jarosz playing this song on Youtube. I used google chrome to slow it down to 1/2 speed, learned it and it's now one of my favorite tunes to play. I'm trying to learn Jerusalem Ridge now.
A "pig's foot" is a blacksmiths tool, as I understand it.
Some good information here: http://www.banjohangout.org/archive/125024
I'm with Jeff on this one.
Explore some of my published music here.
—Jim
Sierra F5 #30 (2005)
Altman 2-point (2007)
Portuguese fado cittern (1965)
That video of Sarah playing STPFALFITF is wonderful.
That Gil sounds wonderful.
Everything is awesome.
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Getting hooked on old fiddle tunes Have Whisky Before Breakfast memorized. working on this version of Chinquapin Hunting I particularly like the syncopated feel of this one
Red Wing. Another tune I haven't heard called, but it's in every book I have so Red Wing it is.
These tunes tend to start out sounding like kids songs til you find some double stops, speed and dress it up some and then it's my favorite tune for a while.
Red Wing is a very recognizable melody, and it's one of those tunes that if you hear it a few times, you almost can summon it without practicing it. And you're so right about the need to dress some of these tunes up or they can be tedious, or cliche or whatever.
But you're right about it never being called.
I've never heard it called.
Never.
I learned Red Wing BC a jam I go to plays it every time, I like the song and it was easy to pick out a simple melody line. It's a song I kind of work on a little each day to spruce it up with more notes and double stops and such.
Two other tunes I'm doing this with are Grandfather's Clock and Walking Cane.
(Sorry, Duplicate post. See next)
Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
--William Shakespeare
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