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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Here's Sally Ann. The first part is from J.P. Fraley. The second is Scruggs. Oh, how he blessed us. The third is simple chording. The other version, Wistful Sally Ann, comes from Pete Wernick.
9 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 786kb, uploaded 8/26/2013 6:25:43 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the Tune of the Week, 8/23/13. This crooked tune is a pretty one, learned from a video of Carl Jones, based on the playing of fiddlers Harvey Sampson, Lester McCumber, and Ward Jarvis. It reminds me of another TOTW, Little Rose is Gone.
5 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 525kb, uploaded 9/24/2011 3:31:20 PM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned from Pat Cloud's book Key to 5 String Banjo. Also similar to Katy Hill. Very pentatonic (Pat Cloud's major focus in this instructional book).
4 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,187kb, uploaded 8/20/2016 4:15:02 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 8/19/16, this is a dance tune from Northumbria in England. It's often played on a melodeon and uilleann pipes; here it's clawhammered.
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Size: 1,280kb, uploaded 10/21/2017 8:22:45 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
An obscure tune for the old-time Tune of the Week, 10/20/17, this tune probably resembles well the style of Israel Welch, WV fiddler and multi-instrumentalist. The Welch Brothers (four of them and a cousin) had a popular dance band in the 1930's and all were skillful musicians. Brothers Tom and Israel Welch were still alive in the 1980's and could still play outstanding dance music.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by John Reischman
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, Salt Spring is a modern composition by John Reischman, an excellent mandolinist I've been fortunate to hear, along with his talented Jaybirds band, many times.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Salty River Reel is inspirational for learning more about Missouri fiddling. This old-time Tune of the Week, 2/4/17, comes from Cyril Stinnett, Missouri fiddler (1912 - 1986), though he didn't appear to have written the tune. He was a precise player, very shy they say, and very successful at fiddling competitions. His style came from the north Missouri region, influenced by Canadian hornpipes, and one of his important sources was Casey Jones, who recorded this tune in 1951. Cyril's first name is pronounced "Serl" and the recording of this piece was in the 1960's at a fiddle contest. It's upbeat, so hope you enjoy!
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Ralph Whited
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
James Bryan, the smoothest, greatest fiddler, learned this from Jim Cauthen and recorded it on his recent CD with Carl Jones, Cricket's Lullaby. Another crooked song.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From the playing of West Virginian Oscar Wright for the TOTW, 5/22/20. As our presenter says, it's a hypnotic type of tune, but I finally found a nice embedded melody.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Burnett and Rutherford played it as a dance tune called Ladies on a Steamboat. My mother once said that great tunes have a minor chord. This one has E minor. Does anyone agree with her? Ever since she told me that, I've found that my favorite tunes do have a minor.
6 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Henry Reed
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Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Henry Reed learned these from the Civil War fifer Quince Dillon. The two tunes are both in Am and one leads easily to the other in a medley.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This was the first song I figured something out with melodic fingering. Bill Monroe is given credit for writing this, though it's very similar to I Don't Love Nobody.
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Size: 1,424kb, uploaded 11/1/2015 7:06:46 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
As played by North Carolina fiddler Marion Reece (1874 - 1941). I can hear the scolding in the A part very clearly!
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From the Samuel Bayard collection of Pennsylvanian tunes in Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife. This medley is played by Mark Tamsula and Richard Withers on their excellent CD "Up in the Batten House."
4 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Anthony Hannibal Clapp
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 12/23/16, Anthony H. Clapp (1749 - 1816) -- said to have been an excellent fiddler and a slave belonging to the family of William Sydney Mount (famed painter of The Banjo Player) -- wrote and named this tune for the town in which he lived. Mount had it in his collections of fiddle tunes, which are kept at the Stony Brooks Museum in Long Island, NY. See this week's TOTW for more info.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Kit and I enjoy this song. Together with mandolin and banjo we're Plinky and Plunky.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From Edden Hammons fiddling, inspired by Adam Hurt's fiddling (yes, fiddling).
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time TOTW, 9/7/18, Shaking Off the Acorns comes from the playing of West Virginian fiddler Edden Hammons, who would have been 113 years old today. Most everybody else records it as Shaking Down the Acorns and it's definitely one of my favorite tunes of all time. It's modal and the first part has 12 measures with three 4-measure phrases.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
In topics:
TOTW 5/26/2023 - Flower From The Fields of Alabama
A song recorded in the 20's with wholesome lyrics. I'm playing the words as sung by the duet Burnett and Rutherford. It also goes along with the singing in the key of C on a recording by Clyde Davenport, one of my favorite old-time musicians. Check out the Tune of the Week for more.
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Size: 1,196kb, uploaded 12/12/2020 7:19:58 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The Tune of the Week goes by several titles. I chose two variations, especially since Take Me Back to Tulsa was a fun piece to sing with the Rough and Ready Fruit Jar Pickers. Shear 'Em had a much older resource than Bob Wills, but I liked how and learned from Gail Gillepsie's group, Happy Valley Band, played it like a real dance tune.
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