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banjukebox - Posted - 05/05/2023: 07:41:27
I have chosen "Red Lick" as this week's Tune of the Week. It's a fun "D" tune from Kentucky Fiddler Lella Todd.
The tune is slightly crooked in that it has an extra measure in the "A" part.
Lella was a well-respected fiddler in her neck of the woods. She lived in Spout Springs, Kentucky, a small town on the Red River.
Here are two links that will introduce you to both her history and this tune:
Anna and Elizabeth have a CRANKY they presented during their Tiny Desk Concert on NPR. The story starts at about the 1:30 mark.
John Harrod tells a little of her history and plays the TUNE in this link.
I learned the tune from one of Clare and Walt's happy hour presentations on YouTube: RED LICK
Lella's VERSION can be heard at at the Slippery Hill site.
I recorded a slow banjo version this morning to post HERE. Tab is HERE.
GMB - Posted - 05/05/2023: 18:32:52
I really like this one! Thanks for posting the tab. Will learn it for sure!
ndlxs - Posted - 05/06/2023: 05:23:26
Cool tune, Pat. As a ever improved fiddler as well as a banjar player, I'm always looking for quarter note tunes like this to play. Here's some decent notation for the fiddle version:
taterjoes.com/Warehouse/Fiddle...dLick.pdf
The other quarter note tunes I like are:
The Snout and Ears of Amerca/Maggots in the Sheep Hide (Sarah Armstong, Hill Country Tunes, Samuel Bayard)
Katie Hill
JanetB - Posted - 05/08/2023: 15:25:59
Nice playing and tune choice, Pat. I remember learning this a while back as played by Billy Stamper from a CD called "Traditional Fiddle Music of Kentucky, Vol. 2: Along the Kentucky River." The A and B parts were switched. I decided to re-learn it this week and used John Harrod's and Clare Milliner's recordings which you linked. When Clare plays it with Walt it feels like I'm in an 1800's parlor in a ladylike dress, she plays it so classically and prettily! (I never forget when I portray Lotta Crabtree once a year that it was she who helped popularize parlor banjo for women.) Red Lick was covered as a TOTW in 2015 and it's good to re-visit. It's the first mp3 below.
banjukebox - Posted - 05/11/2023: 05:45:02
ndlxs Thanks for the comments, Andy. I'm not sure what you mean by "quarter note tunes." What distinguishes these tunes from others in the Old-Time repertoire?
banjukebox - Posted - 05/11/2023: 05:48:58
JanetB As always, Janet, I appreciate your additions to the TOTW's. I enjoy hearing your interpretations and seeing how you construct your TABS. Thanks for all you do at this and other banjo sites.
ndlxs - Posted - 05/11/2023: 06:42:38
I just mean tunes that aren't all eighth note runs. Really, this tune only has quarter notes for a few measures.
My go-to quarter note tunes on fiddle are two Sarah Armstrong tunes: The Snout and Ears of America and Maggots in the Sheep Hide...which of course I chose for the names as well as the tunes.
For some reasons Youtube is not co-operating with the first tune...here's the Maggots:
youtube.com/watch?v=oXhoMf40bys
