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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Emmett Lundy played this lovely waltz and may have learned it locally. But it was actually recorded by De Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters in the 1920's, where it modulates. I like Mr. Lundy's simple version. They were in North Carolina. He was in Virginia. The radio influence was strong then. I like the image the title gives of dancing when the Evening Star is first seen. That is the planet Venus and is something you who are interested in astronomy may want to look up.
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Size: 1,580kb, uploaded 5/18/2016 6:51:43 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This cheerful tune comes from West Virginian Wilson Douglas, though I learned it from Bobby Taylor. I found it examining the very first old-time Tune of the Week dated 7/26/08 and suggested by Erich (vrteach) who never guessed that the TOTW list has way over four hundred tunes now. Fair Morning Hornpipe was offered as a related tune to the original topic, Nancy, and even favored by Erich. It's cheerful and fits the morning today!
5 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Turlough O'Carolan
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Size: 1,032kb, uploaded 2/10/2012 6:02:18 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
O'Carolan's Fairy Queen is highly regarded by scholars of his work. To me its sound is more classical than Celtic. Irish folk have believed in fairies, the "good people," and O'Carolan's first composition, Shebeg Shemore, was about a battle between the little people of two hills.
2 commentsWritten/Posted by JanetB
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Size: 1,179kb, uploaded 9/25/2011 7:13:36 AM
Genre: Classical / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This reminds me of the swirling leaf eddies that keep my first graders from having an orderly line every fall by the cafeteria.
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Size: 2,070kb, uploaded 2/14/2015 11:50:22 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week. I listened mostly to Tommy Jarrell and Fred Cockerham's Fall on My Knees and also to Rayna Gellert. It's a sad song for Valentine's Day. I hope everyone's having a happier one!
9 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,723kb, uploaded 4/1/2013 9:17:46 AM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This is my interpretation of Edden Hammon's fiddling. There's been much discussion on the Hangout about this tune and I wanted to find the oldest known source of it, though it's said it comes from his great-uncle Pete, born 1847. I like to think it's about the waterfalls of the James River, but the somber modal tone sounds more like it's about a historic event in Richmond, which would actually make the title "Fall of Richmond," as many also use.
5 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,758kb, uploaded 5/31/2013 5:58:56 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This is my second recording of West Virginia fiddler Edden Hammon's tune. The first one was in modal tuning. This one's in open G tuning. I found it was easier and am puzzled why I didn't discover this while learning the piece.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,475kb, uploaded 2/5/2021 5:35:35 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Interesting to get a Tune of the Week from the Shetland Islands, which is far from home even if you're from Scotland. Our TOTW presenter suggested a homesick sense in a couple of measures, but overall happiness in the rest of this dance tune.
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Size: 1,551kb, uploaded 4/11/2021 8:36:34 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Played by the treasured fiddler of Kentucky, Clyde Davenport, this Tune of the Week introduced me to a second CD of field recordings I wouldn't have known about. This crooked tune is typical of Mr. Davenport's unique, but traditional Appalachian tunes with roots that usually go farther back across the sea.
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Size: 1,627kb, uploaded 11/24/2012 4:11:36 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned from Dave Hum, it's my farewell piece for him. He's missed on BHO.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Joe Blalock
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Size: 1,070kb, uploaded 1/9/2015 8:38:54 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 1/9/15, this tune was written after Joe Blalock was laid off from his job at the textile mill in Trion. I heard it on Bob Carlin's Banging and Sawing CD. This introduced me to the fiddling of James Bryan of Alabama, who has since become my favorite fiddler. Check out the TOTW thread on Farewell Trion.
4 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Joe Blalock
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Size: 2,145kb, uploaded 6/21/2011 9:33:09 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen
A beautiful tune. Listen to James Bryan's version on Bob Carlin's Banging and Sawing CD.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,412kb, uploaded 10/10/2017 2:42:09 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 10-6-17. Vesta Johnson, Missouri fiddler, learned this from Cyril Stinnett who learned it form his father. I'm glad to see this elderly fiddler (age 95) showcased in this week's TOTW. I find the title amusing.
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Size: 1,591kb, uploaded 8/3/2015 7:20:12 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
An original clawhammer piece, written in semi-traditional ABB format, portraying the feelings of a concerned father and a happy child.
1 commentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,758kb, uploaded 11/13/2012 6:06:08 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A traditional Irish song about a man named Feilim who took his small boat and it crashed. It may have been an Ulster chieftain whose land had been taken. You can feel the admiration and sympathy in the music. The Irish have a great talent for such expression.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by John Hartford
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Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
One of the hardly-known tunes of John Hartford from the new book, Find Your Thing has title with a deep thought. As I was watching the Australian Open wheelchair finals last night, practicing the tune, I was moved that these men had "found their thing."
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,556kb, uploaded 12/2/2012 9:38:49 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This Hammons Family tune is one of those captivating mountain melodies that make fiddle tunes a pleasure to hear. Played on a Bart Reiter Whyte Laydie in open G tuning, it would be capoed at the second fret to play with a fiddle.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,041kb, uploaded 7/28/2013 1:14:50 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned from Adam Hurt's Earth Tones CD. This tune kept going through my head on July 8th as I wondered how close the Smartsville grass fire would come. It ended up burning 73 acres. This version appears to originally come from North Carolina fiddler Marcus Martin.
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Size: 1,967kb, uploaded 12/17/2017 9:38:14 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From the fiddling of Kentuckian Clyde Davenport -- one never can get tired of his style or tunes. This one has those little unexpected twists in meter and melody that delight us. I'm in good company with Joe Newberry and Don Borchelt who both uploaded this tune on BHO years ago. Jeff Titon claims it's related to an Irish tune called The Mullingar Races and that other tunes with different melody have been recorded with this title.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 752kb, uploaded 7/29/2014 7:56:39 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned from Bruce Greene's CD of this title. I recently "discovered" his fiddling and the significance it had in our knowledge of Kentucky fiddlers, though he first heard this from a banjo player in western Kentucky named James Dickison. It's in the Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes, which I'm happy to also discover.
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