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Stoneface - Posted - 03/30/2009: 13:17:46
I went through J-Walks complete list and I think nobody mentioned Backstep Cindy, yet... here's my current top-5:
Sally Ann
Backstep Cindy
John Brown's Dream
Cider
Mississippi Sawyer
Oli
"This is music from hardscrabble people who didn''t put a lot of sugar in their coffee, their lives, or their music." Oldwoodchuck
Steve Donnelly - Posted - 03/30/2009: 13:18:25
Lonesome John
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
Sally Goodin
Quince Dillon
Barlow Knife
smd
chip arnold - Posted - 03/30/2009: 13:45:57
Changes all the time. Right now I'm playing:
Sweet Fern
Storms Upon The Ocean
Snowdrop
Coal Creek March
Peach Bottom Creek
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Take what is given
Give what is taken
Chip Arnold
OTJohn - Posted - 03/30/2009: 14:12:52
Hmm.... currently, right off the top I'd say:
Chinkapin Hunting
Walkin (Up) Georgia Row (Road)
Texas (with a fiddle)
Ducks on the Millpond
Hangman's Reel
chip arnold - Posted - 03/30/2009: 16:02:11
Hi Craig, We'll look forward to it :-)
OTJohn, Which Chinkapin Hunting is that? I play a D Chinkapin Hunting I got from Will Keys who got it from Art Stamper who got it from his dad Hiram.
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Take what is given
Give what is taken
Chip Arnold
Jami108 - Posted - 03/30/2009: 16:48:26
Chip, glad to see there is another Carter Family fan here!
Jami
"When you want genuine music—music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whiskey…ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose—when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!" - Mark Twain
handsup8 - Posted - 03/31/2009: 07:57:18
I just learned two tunes from Pete Sutherland that I'm playing alot:
Tater Patch (A modal)
Old Kentucky Whiskey (Open A)
Other current faves:
Greasy Coat (A Modal)
Wolves a Howlin' (Open A)
Texas (A Modal)
Ted
Handsup8
chaosfrailer - Posted - 03/31/2009: 08:44:03
Sugar Hill
Rambling Hobo
Golden Slippers
Rock the Cradle Joe
Fortune
Take care, but take it!-Harold Hausenfluck
banjers51 - Posted - 04/03/2009: 13:08:11
Hard to choose, but these are the ones I come back to year after year:
Cherokee Shuffle (in D)
Green Willis
Billy Wilson
Cowboy's Dream
Texas Gals
Banjers51
Joe Newberry - Posted - 04/04/2009: 07:47:16
Roustabout
Rambling Hobo
Cumberland Gap
Lost Gander
Arkansas Traveler (which I think should be the National Anthem! Wouldn't it be fun at a ballgame to "all rise for the picking of Arkansas Traveler"...)
www.myspace.com/joenewberry
whyteman - Posted - 04/04/2009: 07:54:00
I really like your "Lost Gander" on Banjo Gathering. Different from S. Wade and M. Seeger's, but brilliant all the same. I've still never heard Dee Hicks' "original" version. Could you shed some light on that? He must have been a superb musician.
Don.
Haul off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve.
Joe Newberry - Posted - 04/05/2009: 08:39:20
I believe Dee Hicks' playing of Lost Gander was on a sampler that Mike prepared as a teaching aid some years back. And you are right, Mr. Hicks was an amazing player.
www.myspace.com/joenewberry
ScottK - Posted - 04/05/2009: 09:37:54
I was wondering about Lost Gander just yesterday. Over in the Old Time Up Picking Recordings thread Jami posted links to a couple of out of print albums that others have digitized and put on on-line. The first is "Traditional Music from the Cumberland Plateau Vol 1 & 2" and the second is "On the Tennessee Line" by Virgil Anderson. On the latter (which is a really great record) Virgil Anderson plays a version of Wild Goose Chase that is basically Lost Gander. On the former Clyde Davenport fiddles a version of Wild Goose Chase. It's kind of hard (for me, anyway) to hear a connection between the tunes. They versions are pretty different from each other. Anyway, it was cool to bump into Anderson's Wild Goose Chase.
"Traditional Music from the Cumberland Plateau Vol 1 & 2" also includes three songs sung by Dee Hicks, but he only plays banjo on one of them.
I also really like Joe's Lost Gander and everything else on his "Two Hands" CD!
Scott
Edit: Since my curiosity was aroused, I went and poked around the Digital Library of Appalachia. Turns out they have a lot of Virgil Anderson recordings including another version of the tune under the title Wild Geese Flying North.
Edited by - ScottK on 04/05/2009 09:53:20
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