Tune of the Week - Camp Meeting on the Fourth of July

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Posted - 07/03/2009 :  15:50:11          

Great Tune! I've had this one on my list of tunes to learn ever since I played along with it at a dulcimer festival a few years ago. I can add that there is also a nice version at the Pegram Jam site:

http://www.pegramjam.com/

To get the tunes you have to email to the owner and he'll tell you the secret. When you get the secret, be gentle with the server, they have a limited bandwidth. The chord chart book is useful, too, and you don't need the secret.

Erich -- There''s always room for cello..

http://vrteach.org/banjo/
http://prairiegrapevine.org/
U of Illinois-Springfield Old Time Music

Edited by - vrteach on 07/06/2009 20:57:36

Posted - 07/03/2009 :  15:55:45            

That's a good tune, and very appropriate choice, Duane!

Rising Appalachia does a great banjo/fiddle version:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/rappalachia

I also have a vocal version by the Wolf Bros, from a CD called "Old Time Tuning"

Posted - 07/03/2009 :  21:25:17  

Cool tune. I'm from Arkansas and I've never heard it before. Guess I'll have to learn it.

Posted - 07/04/2009 :  06:00:14    

Anybody got a TAB for it?

Bob B

My Level? Uh...kinda...
......"Advanced"...Novice ?

Posted - 07/04/2009 :  09:41:58      

Excellent pick, and certainly appropriate for the day. I couldn't find an *.mp3 of this one already at BHO, so here's one in aDADE on my fretless Gatcomb (Nylgut, gray wool sock betwixt skin head and dowel):

http://www.banjohangout.org/myhango...usicid=13520

I put a tab of this at the website in my siganture.

LyleK
http://lylewk.home.comcast.net

Posted - 07/04/2009 :  12:31:13        

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Originally posted by LyleK

Excellent pick, and certainly appropriate for the day. I couldn't find an *.mp3 of this one already at BHO, so here's one in aDADE on my fretless Gatcomb (Nylgut, gray wool sock betwixt skin head and dowel):

http://www.banjohangout.org/myhango...usicid=13520

I put a tab of this at the website in my siganture.

LyleK
http://lylewk.home.comcast.net

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Posted - 07/04/2009 :  15:31:26      

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Originally posted by BANJOJUDY
I now have 365 days to learn it for the next 4th of July parade.

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Posted - 07/06/2009 :  07:52:43        

Thanks for picking this tune and bringing it out for us to hear.

Posted - 07/06/2009 :  16:10:53      

Great tune! Erich, thanks for the reference to the Pegram Jam. A wealth of tunes there!

When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth''s pills, 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,"Enthusiastic Eloquence," San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle, 23 June 1865

Posted - 07/06/2009 :  20:40:05        

No rain in Port Townsend this July 4th. We played Camp Meeting on the Fourth of July at least a couple of times on the fourth up at Fiddle Tunes. Good call, Duane!

Scott