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Jim_VA - Posted - 05/03/2024: 04:33:15
This week’s TOTW is the “Bibb County Hoedown,” which comes from a 1930 recording by Seven Foot Dilly and His Dill Pickles. The source recording is in the key of C, but the tune is frequently played in the key of A. (The Red Mountain band recorded this tune as “Gideon” in the key of A.) John Dilleshaw (Seven Foot Dilly), 1896-1941, was a six foot, seven inch tall guitar player from Paulding County, Georgia. The traditional tune archive attributes the Bibb County Hoedown to fiddler A. A. Gray, who recorded with Dilleshaw in the 1920s; but research indicates the group that recorded Bibb County Hoedown was known as “Dilly and His New Group,” and included Lowe Stokes on fiddle, along with a tenor banjo, bass, and possibly a second fiddle.
Bibb County, Georgia is located southeast of Atlanta, and is named for William Wyatt Bibb (1781-1820), who served in the US House of Representatives and US Senate for Georgia. Bibb later moved to the Alabama Territory, and was elected as the first governor of the new state of Alabama.
Some Resources:
Source Recording, in C: youtube.com/watch?v=4shjVi3kZuc
Modern String Band setting, in A: youtube.com/watch?v=vS5AZNObQL0
Traditional Tune archive, for musical notation
A few years ago, fellow Hangout member Janolov put together this Tab for the tune!
My Version:
I first heard the tune at jam sessions and I liked it so much I felt I had to learn a version. This is my take on the tune, with the banjo in standard A tuning. For the A part, I frequently fret a note on one string while hammering on to a lower string. [hides from the Old Time Police] There are also some nice opportunities for slides in the A part.
JanetB - Posted - 05/06/2024: 17:37:47
The tune grows on you when playing it. Going up the neck is harder when I'm reading my tab, having just learned it, but you do it just fine and after trying other possibilities you inspired me. My arrangement is from the Old Yeller Dog Band because I liked what the fiddler did with fill-in notes.
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