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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Coal Creek, Virginia fiddler Roscoe Parish (1897 - 1984) was visited and recorded in the 80's by Andy Cahan and Alice Gerrard. I found this tune in the Milliner-Koken American Fiddle Tunes Book and an MP3 of Alice performing it. Its melody is like a music box! As I'm researching Roscoe Parish right now; it's given me more insight into his music. This tune is related to Flying Indian and O Lassie, Art Thou Sleeping Yet?, indicating it has deep roots.
5 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
John Salyer of Kentucky is credited with this version of the song in Jeff Titon's book of old-time Kentucky fiddle tunes. It's a beautiful and crooked tune.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From fiddler Howdy Forrester and Scottish composer James Scott Skinner, who recorded Rosebud of Allenvale in the 1920's.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Jay Ungar
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the Tune of the Week, 4/4/14. Jay Ungar has an art for writing modern beautiful old-time tunes. I like the title of this tune because I'm from California and the early history of this state is interesting. I'd recommend reading William Henry Dana, Jr.'s book "Two Years the Mast" for a literary picture of going "round the horn."
5 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Bill Monroe
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Size: 1,074kb, uploaded 8/13/2011 6:03:48 PM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A sleepy waltz. Kenny Baker recorded it. It modulates from C to A and back to C.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
As played by the Indian Creek Delta Boys and in the Dear Old Illinois collection.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Wade & J.E. Mainer
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
After hearing RG's Run Mountain and the original recordings by Wade Mainer, I liked RG's 2-finger picking and learned it like he plays it. Listen to RG and hear the many lyrics sung about this moonshine tune about "Run Mountain, sugar on the hill."
Add CommentPosted by JanetB
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned from the playing of Jim Reed who says he learned it as a boy from his father. It's not like Stringbean's version, but when I first heard it I knew I wanted to learn Jim's way. Jim picks it, I clawhammer, and, as Jim tells in his interview with Paul Roberts, his dad played this clawhammer style, too, on a beautiful old Bacon banjo that Jim snuck and played.
10 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the Tune of the Week, Nov. 15, 2013, based on Melvin Wine's version. Melvin played it in A. I arranged this one in open G tuning.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the Tune of the Week 5/13/13, based on Tommy Jarrell's fiddling. It's different from the tune as I learned it growing up. Played on my Bart Reiter Whyte Laydie in the tuning eDGBD.
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Size: 1,002kb, uploaded 10/29/2014 6:16:12 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learning from Kentucky fiddler J.P. Fraley is always a treat. His style is always flowing and cheerful. J.P. says he thinks he learned Sail Away Ladies from his father, Richard, though at first he cited Ed Haley, the famous blind fiddler. As a child, J.P. would listen to Ed for hours on the street corner of Ashland while his father was on business. This version doesn't resemble any other Sail Away Ladies I've heard.
4 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned from the playing of Virginia fiddler Luther Davis for the Tune of the Week, 8/3/18, this is yet another melody with the title Sail Away Ladies. Luther played it at a relaxed pace and had learned it from a friend named Charlie Higgins, also one of his mentors. I'm playing on my Mac Traynham Whyte Laydie in the key of G.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,243kb, uploaded 7/17/2012 3:04:37 PM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This one's for Jim, whose playing is inimitable, but he's glad to have us join in!
7 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen
This one was tabbed out by Alan Munde. It's for Ian's Alan Munde post on Sound Off!
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 8/25/17, this comes from the fiddling of Kentuckian Pat Kingerly, born in 1912. Funny, but somebody posted it on youtube as "Sow's Got Mud Between Her Toes." That title makes sense!
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
As played by Kentucky fiddler John Salyer, it's good to have yet another one of his unique tunes. The A part is rather plain, but the B part has character. If Sallie Cooper was that kind of person, I think I would have liked her.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
In topics:
TOTW 10/17/2025 Sallie Gooden (Sally Goodin) - Eck Robertson
Eck Robertson, Arkansas fiddler with a phenomenal recording history, played multiple versions of the commonly known old-time tune Sally Goodin. Check out the Tune of the Week link for an interesting story. I play just a few of his variations, plus add my own at the very end.
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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.
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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).
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