Posted by JanetB, written by Ralph Stanley
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
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TOTW 9/20/24--Clinch Mountain Backstep
For the bluegrass boys who are so lightning quick and pin-point accurate, here's my mountain modal clawhammer. Thanks, guys.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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TOTW 9/20/24--Clinch Mountain Backstep
A clawhammer arrangement of Ralph Stanley's classic 3-finger style, played in modal sawmill tuning.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This version of Coal Creek comes from the playing of Mannon Campbell. It is said to resemble Shooting Creek, so here are the two of them in a medley.
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This old-time Tune of the Week, 3/31/17, came from the playing of Kentucky fiddler Manon Campbell who learned it from his aunt. The story is that a boat was caught in a slow whirlpool at Coal Harbor Bend and didn't realize that the dance tune they kept hearing, thinking they were floating downriver, was from the same gathering at the house by the river. My arrangement comes from fiddler Rhys Jones of the group Bigfoot.
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For the old-time Tune of the Week. I learned this listening to Don Borchelt and Ed Britt. Instead of using double D tuning for the key of D, I'm in open G and tuned down the 5th string to an A note. That may be a little quirky I suppose, but sounds okay to me and avoids the dissonance when playing the open G chord in the second measure.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the TOTW, 5-9-14, from Christian Wig and Mark Ward's fiddling. Played in modal tuning on a Mac Traynham Whyte Laydie openback.
5 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Turlough O'Carolan
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A pretty planxty by O'Carolan written to honor a patron known to have brought together two great blind Irish harpists.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Noah Bingham
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned for the Tune of the Week from the playing of Kentucky fiddler Estill Bingham. This one's also in Jeff Todd Titon's Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes book with its 170 tunes.
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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.
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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!
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
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.
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A tune learned from the playing of North Carolina fiddler Marcus Martin (1881 - 1974). I hear a sad and serious melody.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As played by Missouri fiddler Lyman Enloe, tuned in what is called open C, but on a cello banjo, so that you are hearing Cowhide Boots in its normal key, which is G. (dGDGB)
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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.
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For the TOTW Marmaduke's Hornpipe/Cricket on the Hearth, this one is based on Kenny Baker's fiddling.
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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.
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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.
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