Page 2 of 2 FirstFirst 12
Results 26 to 44 of 44

Thread: Bluegrass "snow" tunes

  1. #26
    Registered User Timbofood's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2007
    Location
    Kalamazoo, MI.
    Posts
    7,487

    Default Re: Bluegrass "snow" tunes

    Boy, “Deepening Snow” has to be one of the most touching little tunes I’ve heard in years! I’m taking that one to the band! Thanks for sharing Allen!! “Snow Deer” might get in there too!
    I like Cliff Waldron’s version of “Ice Covered Birches” better but, I will listen to almost anyone’s, it’s a great “heart song” as a buddy of mine used to call them.
    Timothy F. Lewis
    "If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett

  2. The following members say thank you to Timbofood for this post:


  3. #27
    Registered User Charles E.'s Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Saint Augustine Beach FL
    Posts
    6,633

    Default Re: Bluegrass "snow" tunes

    Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum recorded "Teardrops Falling in The Snow". They also played an original tune, written by Tom, called "Snowy Day"........

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP6w...zdDSF&index=33
    Charley

    A bunch of stuff with four strings

  4. #28
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Jul 2008
    Location
    Burr Ridge, IL
    Posts
    10

    Default Re: Bluegrass "snow" tunes

    Claire Lynch Band - Snow Day from the Holiday! recording.
    Tom D

    "music is the wine that fills the cup of silence." Robert Fripp

  5. #29
    Registered User Rob Ross's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2011
    Location
    Apple Valley, MN
    Posts
    120

    Default Re: Bluegrass "snow" tunes

    Previously mentioned "Snowflake Reel" is one of my all-time favorite tunes. It is also known as "Snowflake Breakdown", and was written by Canadian fiddler Wally Traugott. It goes together quite well with "Snowball" by Alan Munde and Brian Berline, which makes it a truly bluegrass snow tune.
    Rob Ross
    Apple Valley, Minne-SOH-tah

    1996 Flatiron A5-Performer, 1915 Gibson F-2 (loaned to me by a friend), 2008 Kentucky Master KM-505 A-Model
    1925 Bacon Peerless tenor banjo (Irish tuning), 1985 Lloyd Laplant F-5, 2021 Ibanez PFT2 Tenor Guitar (GDAE)
    and of course, the 1970 Suzuki-Violin-Sha Bowl Back Taterbug

  6. The following members say thank you to Rob Ross for this post:


  7. #30
    Stop the chop!
    Join Date
    Oct 2008
    Location
    europe
    Posts
    1,698
    Blog Entries
    1

    Default Re: Bluegrass "snow" tunes

    [QUOTE=allenhopkins;1626237]Ice-Covered Birches



    Snow Deer (there's a Woody Guthrie vid with lyrics, too)




    /QUOTE]


    Snow Deer was written by Percy Wenrich and Jack Mahoney in 1913. The lyrics are about a Native American girl, in the same category as Silver Bell (also by Wenrich) and Red Wing. The only time I've heard it done by a Bluegrass group was when I sat in with Smiley Hobbs' group in Arlington, 49 years ago, playing Mr. Hobbs' mandolin. It works splendidly in that idiom, but it's not really about snow.


    And Woody Guthrie strikes some very strange chords in bars 3-4.

  8. The following members say thank you to ralph johansson for this post:


  9. #31

    Default Re: Bluegrass "snow" tunes

    Is Snow Drop Bluegrass?

  10. #32
    Registered User Timbofood's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2007
    Location
    Kalamazoo, MI.
    Posts
    7,487

    Default Re: Bluegrass "snow" tunes

    Quote Originally Posted by Kellie View Post
    Is Snow Drop Bluegrass?
    Many would say “No” but, I can hear a good version of it in my head! Anything can be done in the style if you are driven to do it. My band does “Streets of Bakersfield” as straight BG as possible. It’s fun to cross genres if you can do it with taste.
    Timothy F. Lewis
    "If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett

  11. #33
    Registered User KGreene's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2014
    Location
    Virginia
    Posts
    164

    Default Re: Bluegrass "snow" tunes

    Quote Originally Posted by Timbofood View Post
    Many would say “No” but, I can hear a good version of it in my head! Anything can be done in the style if you are driven to do it. My band does “Streets of Bakersfield” as straight BG as possible. It’s fun to cross genres if you can do it with taste.
    I couldn't agree more ... we do quite a few of JP songs in BG fashion ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJzalbTTc9Y ... (snow and Christmas in the lyrics anyway) ... Really doesn't seem that long ago when JP came out with this, makes me wonder where the years went!
    2014 Gibson 'Harvey' F5G
    1917 Gibson F2
    2013 'The' Loar LM600VS
    2013 Morgan Monroe 4FJ
    Blue Chip Picks
    The Scallywag Social Club

  12. #34

    Default Re: Bluegrass "snow" tunes

    "February Snow," written by Shel Silverstein and performed by Lester Flatt.
    MadMax

  13. #35
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Jan 2005
    Location
    St Paul, Minn
    Posts
    569

    Default Re: Bluegrass "snow" tunes

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBCO90KBMRE

    Peter Ostroushko Horizontal Hold

  14. The following members say thank you to ajh for this post:


  15. #36

  16. #37
    Mando-Accumulator Jim Garber's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2003
    Location
    Westchester, NY
    Posts
    30,753

    Default Re: Bluegrass "snow" tunes

    Here's a different :"Snowbird" that I play a lot: an old time Kentucky tune by Sammy Dyer. Also "Snowbird on the Ashbank". Sorry, Charley, to insert non-bluegrass tunes in here.
    Attached Files Attached Files
    Jim

    My Stream on Soundcloud
    Facebook
    19th Century Tunes
    Playing lately:
    1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1

  17. #38
    Registered User Charles E.'s Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Saint Augustine Beach FL
    Posts
    6,633

    Default Re: Bluegrass "snow" tunes

    Hey Jim, it's cool with me. I played that one with the group back in Raleigh. Only we called it "Ash Bird On The Snowbank".
    Charley

    A bunch of stuff with four strings

  18. #39
    Mando-Accumulator Jim Garber's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2003
    Location
    Westchester, NY
    Posts
    30,753

    Default Re: Bluegrass "snow" tunes

    Here's Bruce Greene playing "Snowbird".

    Jim

    My Stream on Soundcloud
    Facebook
    19th Century Tunes
    Playing lately:
    1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1

  19. #40
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Apr 2009
    Location
    Centerville, Tn
    Posts
    9

    Default Re: Bluegrass "snow" tunes

    Patty Loveless
    Bluegrass, White Snow

    https://youtu.be/helw6XLkvxI

  20. #41
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Jan 2007
    Location
    Kenai, Alaska
    Posts
    154

    Default Re: Bluegrass "snow" tunes

    Hey,
    Does anyone know who wrote Ice Covered Birches? I have been told it was written by a guy named Carl Hoffman, kind of an Alaskan Bluegrass legend. Would love to know for sure.

  21. #42
    Registered User William Smith's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2010
    Location
    Sugar Grove,PA
    Posts
    3,371
    Blog Entries
    1

    Default Re: Bluegrass "snow" tunes

    Footprints in the snow-Big Mon?? Sled Ridin -Dale Sled. Snow Deer-fiddle tune banjo style by Don Reno.

  22. #43

    Default Re: Bluegrass "snow" tunes

    One more -- "Snow White Grave," by Jimmy Martin.
    MadMax

  23. #44
    Registered User djeffcoat's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2003
    Location
    Beaumont, Texas
    Posts
    147

    Default Re: Bluegrass "snow" tunes


Bookmarks

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •