What's your new fiddle tune?

[Mike Snyder]

Lord knows I've tried to pick Sugar, but it keeps turning into Waterbound! You'll have to teach it to me next September.

[Gary S]

I play Sugar in The Gourd. My advice is "The way to get the Sugar out is roll the gourd about".

Have a great day...Gary

[Eddie Sheehy]

This week it's Ashokan Farewell. That tune resonates with my soul...

[JeffD]

I have renewed my acquaintance with La Bastringue. Great fun tune. That and Reel de Montreal. Tunes I thought I forgot, and hadn't.

[Jack Roberts]

Faded love

[JeffD]

Hunting the Buffalo

Found it in Portland book this afternoon, and remembered where I had heard it - Clyde Curly's CD of old timey mandolin. I can't get enough of this tune. I think I blew out my left index finger playing it.

[Martin]

Lonesome Fiddle Blues

[JeffD]

Hey folks. Check out Hope's tune of the month this month. Its an old timey classic. I play it, in a few renditions, on mandolin and its pretty awesome.


http://www.happyhollowmusic.com/tuneofthemonth.htm

[Marion Rose]

Chattanooga.

[Harlan_55]

Some great and downright fun fiddle tunes I have been working up

1. Candy Girl - once you get the groove on this one, you just cannot stop playing
2. Roaring River - great fiddle tune from Georgia, got that real bluesy old timey feel
3. Gallop to Georgia - another Georgia classic
4. Turkey in the Peapatch - Portland Collection Vol II
5. Granny, Will Your Dog Bite - New England Contra-dance tune
6. Hey Little Girl, Do What I Tell You - Portland Collection Vol II
7. Little Rabbitt - another barnburner endless looping
8. Hog Eye - don't know much about this but is fun to play
9.Georgia Railroad - another in the georgia theme
10. Squirrle Heads and Gravy - it's making the rounds through all the jams here, fun tune

Celtic Fiddle tunes

1. Swallowtail Jig - Morrison's - Drowsy Maggie ( Em set played lots in local sessions)
2. Foxhunter's - The Kid On The Mountain ( slides with a distinctive feel )
3. The Banshee - Blarney Pilgrim - Blackthorne Stick
4. Cooley's -Merrily Kiss the Quaker-Over the Moor To Maggie
5. Sid Chalmers - Mucking In Geordies Byer - Haste To The Wedding
6. O'Keefe's Slide - Road To Lisdoonvarna-Trip To Sligo
7. The Bucks of Oranmore
8. Caroan's Concerto
9. Balleydemonds - Breeches Full O' Stitches - Denis Murphy's - Egan's
10. The Butterfly - Drops of Brandy - Old Wife of Coverdale

[JeffD]

Sullivan's Hollow.

What a tune. Its got me in its tractor beam and I can't seem to do anything but play it over and over and over.

[TWINGDAE]

Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine

[Gary S]

Sullivan's Hollow...I was just playing that this morning...Gary

[JeffD]

Sullivan's Hollow...I was just playing that this morning...Gary

Isn't a fun tune.

[Pete Counter]

The week before last I learned "Temperance Reel", Last week it was "Sailor's Hornpipe", This week I learned "Lost Indian". Im having a great time with fiddle tunes lately.

[Kate D.]

My current new old time fiddle tune is "Folding Down the Sheets".
In fact I think I'll shut the lid on this laptop right now and play it!

[Mike Buesseler]

My favorite version of "Sullivan's Hollow" is played on fiddle by Uncle Earl. I can never get that flavor, on a slower tune, played on mandolin. Anyone care to post his/her version here for a little inspiration?

[JeffD]

My favorite version of "Sullivan's Hollow" is played on fiddle by Uncle Earl. I can never get that flavor, on a slower tune, played on mandolin. Anyone care to post his/her version here for a little inspiration?

While I do love the playing of Rayne Gellert, the version of "Sullivan's Hollow that inspired me is from a CD called Mississippi String Bands volume 2, and the tune is played by Leslie and Hendrix Freeny of Freeny's Barn Dance Band, recorded in December of 1930.

Freeny plays it faster than Uncle Earl, but not fast by any fiddle tune standard. Just enough to go from meditative to moving, but not fast enough to change time zones.

I am still working it over and over. I use a lot of double stop tremolo on those longer crooked pauses.

I liken the tune to a spring creek, full of exhuberance but pooling up every 100 feet or so.

[woodwizard]

President Garfield's Hornpipe and President Grant's Hornpipe (2) Gooderns!

[AlanN]

President Garfield's Hornpipe and President Grant's Hornpipe (2) Gooderns!

Oof....Garfield on the B part...Oof.

[Barbara Shultz]

Hey folks. Check out Hope's tune of the month this month. Its an old timey classic. I play it, in a few renditions, on mandolin and its pretty awesome.


http://www.happyhollowmusic.com/tuneofthemonth.htm

Hey, that's a cool site! We play that tune, have just known it as "Sally in the Garden"..... it's one of our favorites! I play it on either the mando or OM....

Barb

[woodwizard]

Oof....Garfield on the B part...Oof.

hey Alan ...actually the A part was kinda tricky for me getting it up to speed with that little down-down thing going on. The B part was pretty down-up down-up all the way. The B part is pretty tho ain't it? Both are fun President Hornpipes.

[JeffD]

Hey, that's a cool site! We play that tune, have just known it as "Sally in the Garden"..... it's one of our favorites! I play it on either the mando or OM....

Barb

The most mournful version I have heard of this tune is on Kathy Mattea's album "Coal". Its a solo banjo, at a slow temp, and if you listen to the cuts off the album in order (who does that anymore?), you will experience some powerful stuff. The tune by itself is moving, but in context it really glues together the song before it and the one after.

[AlanN]

hey Alan ...actually the A part was kinda tricky for me getting it up to speed with that little down-down thing going on. The B part was pretty down-up down-up all the way. The B part is pretty tho ain't it? Both are fun President Hornpipes.

Exactly opp. for me. The A part is pretty straight; the B part, with the pinky getting heavy use, is...oof.

Tony Furtado cut a version of it with A. Steffey doing mandolin chores. 'No pinky' Adam does a very nice job on it.

[Eddie Sheehy]

Whiskey Before Breakfast... see thread in General Section....