Re: "Dark" Fiddle Tunes?
I picked up "the night before larry was stretched" -- the session version, which i think is in G -- at any rate, you play it on lower strings -- and passed it on to a couple of people including a relatively new box player. the box player took it to his teacher to get the fingering right --and the teacher told him he was on his own because he found Larry to be "too dark." i have no idea why, unless it was the title, but i'm putting it out there. the set i learned it in was Fig for a Kiss, The Night Before Larry Was Stretched, Kid on the Mountain. actually, Larry and Kid are nicely modally dark. Kiss is pretty bouncy, in my opinion.
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