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    Default Is there another name for this tune?

    I recently stumbled on the following video of a mandolin and guitar duo playing a tune called "Wiley Laws' Tune". I don't think I had ever heard of a tune by that name, but it sure sounds familiar. Is there another name for this tune?


    I can find next to nothing about the tune using Google and only two other youtube videos. It looks like maybe it was a tune that a fairly well respected oldtime fiddler named Wiley Laws played and maybe he indeed wrote it. Or maybe it was just something he liked and it had some other name. In any case I do like the tune and this duo's rendition of it.

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    Default Re: Is there another name for this tune?

    At the end of the YouTube audio of Manco Sneed playing it they mention Boon fiddler Wylie Laws as being a blind fiddler from Tennessee.
    The audio is pretty hissy so I could be mis-interpreting what is said there, so it would be good to have a few people listen in too.


    Hog -Eyed Man feature it in their 3rd CD and the liner notes include the following;
    "1. Wiley Laws’ Tune (2:43) Manco Sneed (1885-1974), a part-Cherokee fiddler living in western NC, got this distinctive tune from his mentor J.D. Harris (1868-193?), originally of eastern TN, who in turn got it from Wiley Laws, a blind fiddler who immigrated from England in the 19th century and was the source of several regionally popular tunes. We picked up the third part from John Harrod’s field recording of Manco’s son-in-law, J. Laurel Johnson, himself a fine fiddler from Atlanta, GA. Manco may once have played that part too, as it bears the emotive syncopation and intricate phrasing characteristic of his music."
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    Default Re: Is there another name for this tune?

    Ok, this tune has become an ear worm. I am having flashes of a broadway musical with a hoedown scene and this tune being played. Maybe "Oklahoma!"?

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    Default Re: Is there another name for this tune?

    Quote Originally Posted by HonketyHank View Post
    I recently stumbled on the following video of a mandolin and guitar duo playing a tune called "Wiley Laws' Tune".
    BTW those contemporary musicians are two members of the Foghorn Stringband.

    That is a great tune and now on my list to learn. I love the rolling ragtimey feel.
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    Some discussion about this tune here.
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    Default Re: Is there another name for this tune?

    Got kind of a hornpipe sound to it.

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