Cora Dye (TOTW)

Posted by JanetB

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Size: 1,472kb, uploaded 6/13/2015 7:49:41 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

For the old-time Tune of the Week, this version comes from Illinois fiddler Jim Reed on the Dear Old Illinois CD set, ready to be re-released soon. Cora Dye was the name of a musician who taught Mr. Reed, but the original name may have been Old Sage Friend. See the TOTW: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/305004. Hope you enjoy this delicate first effort to learn the tune.

Cornstalk Fiddle and a Shoestring Bow

Posted by JanetB

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Size: 750kb, uploaded 10/18/2014 6:02:27 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 10/17/14, as played by Clyde Davenport. Learning this tune has got me looking at an old Christmas present I got one year called Homemade Instruments by Dallas Cline. Wouldn't that be a fun one to make!

Cottage in the Grove

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Size: 3,056kb, uploaded 9/30/2023 11:14:35 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

In topics:
TOTW 9/29/23 Cottage in the Grove

This old Celtic tune was recorded and tabbed by Art Rosenbaum in the 1970's based on banjo player Bob Lucas' rendition. As Tune of the Week, it's an interesting research project. Played in sawmill tuning, it might be a most enjoyable listen once familiar with it. Here I play rather slowly and am just trying to reproduce its many notes. The first half is based on a flutists' mp3. The second half is from Art's tab.

Cousin Sally Brown

Posted by JanetB

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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

A tune learned from the playing of North Carolina fiddler Marcus Martin (1881 - 1974). I hear a sad and serious melody.

Cousin Sally Brown (Gaither Carlton)(TOTW)

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Size: 1,051kb, uploaded 8/7/2021 10:15:56 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Many of us know a Cousin Sally Brown with an evocative modal tuning. This is a different melody. The source is Gaither Carlton, to me known as the father-in-law of the more famous Doc Watson. My arrangements here come from Gaither, Doc, and another banjo player of the region, Calvin Cole. I'm playing on the slower side. Check out the TOTW to hear more, especially Paul Brown.

Cowboy Waltz

Posted by JanetB

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Size: 1,122kb, uploaded 6/8/2012 8:04:35 AM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

At a music camp dance several years ago, Kit and I heard Heidi Claire fiddling this as the traditional last song of a dance. We just had to learn it and found a notated source by Elena Corey when she was active in the California Bluegrass Association. Here's our banjo/mandolin duet.

Cowboy Waltz (CH) (TOTW)

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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 1/20/17, this is a favorite Texas waltz my husband, Kit, and I have enjoyed. Don Borchelt does a great job covering its history if you check it out, and has lots of examples, including two superb videos of his own.

Coyote Howl (TOTW)

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Size: 1,368kb, uploaded 10/23/2020 10:44:05 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

An original tune for Tune of the Week, 10/23/20, by a musician to admire, fiddler Joe Herrmann. He says the title came from an incident of coyotes marauding his wife's sheep, killing four and injuring one. Employing a sheepdog in the pasture later solved the problem, but the coyotes still howled. However, they also stayed away. I'm in sawmill tuning, an appropriate choice for this title.

Cricket on the Hearth

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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

For the TOTW Marmaduke's Hornpipe/Cricket on the Hearth, this one is based on Kenny Baker's fiddling.

Cripple Creek (CH)

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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Two versions alternate. The first one comes from Tommy Jarrell's Round Peak style, as taught to me by Adam Hurt. The second is my clawhammered rendition of the classic Scrugg's style first lesson taught in 3-finger style. The bluesy notes of Tommy Jarrell's compares with the major tones of the Scrugg's style, though both have slides.

Cripple Creek (TOTW)

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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Marion Thede was an Oklahoma native who notated fiddle tunes throughout the states in the late 1920's and The Fiddle Book is still sought after by old-time music fans. For the Tune of the Week, 8/10/18, a three-part Cripple Creek as performed by J.S. Prise, originally from Mississippi who had moved to Oklahoma, is hereby introduced. It's fun to play as you hear the traditional song embedded in this unique version.

Crossing the Cumberlands

Posted by JanetB, written by Bill Monroe and Lamar Grier

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Size: 928kb, uploaded 9/1/2011 5:34:03 PM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

There's a mysterious sound to this tune, as if crossing those mountains wasn't an easy or safe thing to do. I enjoyed figuring it out with the melodic style, and then chordally.

Cuckoo's Nest

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Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Played on a Gold Tone Cripple Creek mini-banjo, key of G.

Cuffy (CB)--TOTW

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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 11/7/14, I'm learning that Cuffy is the name of several historic figures in the era of slavery. I'm impressed there's even a Guyana silver dollar coin with Cuffy's image. The timing of the tune feels unusual, but the only crooked part would be a half measure between the A and B parts. It's the melody itself that has an interesting path. Check out this week's TOTW: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/294064

Cumberland Gap

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For the TOTW, the first time I've used Cumberland Gap tuning, and after listening to many, many, many versions offered here, this is a combination of what I heard.

Cumberland Gap--gourd

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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

A slow-fast arrangement on gourd. I was trying to get more gourd sustain in the recording.

Dance All Night (TOTW)

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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

A version adapted from the Highwoods String Band

Dandy Jim (TOTW)

Posted by JanetB, written by Clyde Davenport

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Size: 925kb, uploaded 5/31/2014 5:09:56 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 5/30/14, from Kentucky fiddler Clyde Davenport, recorded by Jeff Titon and in his book "Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes." The timing in the A part feels like it has African-American influence--something I'd like to know more about. For tabbing the tune I used two measures of 4/4 timing followed by a measure of 2/2 timing.

Dark as a Dungeon

Posted by JanetB, written by Merle Travis

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This song reminds me of my dad who grew up in the coal mining town of Ashville, PA.

Dark Eyes Reel (TOTW)

Posted by JanetB, written by Albert S. Bowman

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Size: 1,016kb, uploaded 8/16/2014 5:33:51 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 8/15/14, learned from BHO member ajisai's fiddling. She learned it from an old violin instruction book of the early 1900's. Without a historic recording to go by, this reminds me of the manner in which Turlough O'Carolan's tunes were learned and carried on. Someone notated them and published them and we're all better off for knowing his beautiful music.