Posted by JanetB
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Size: 944kb, uploaded 11/1/2014 12:31:38 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 10/31/14. The history behind this name is fascinating. Check out the TOTW: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/293687 George Washington called Peter Francisco his "one-man army." I discovered I have the 1976 US stamp created in his honor, carrying a half-ton cannon on his shoulder! The tune appeared in Knauf's "Virginia Reels" book in 1839. I'm playing on a Gold Tone cello banjo, so it's in the key of D, played in what's equivalent to open G tuning.
6 comments on “Peter Francisco (CB)”
rickhayes Says:
Saturday, November 1, 2014 @3:07:54 PM
Sounds great on the CB Janet, but whatever you play sounds great.
hayesdt Says:
Sunday, November 2, 2014 @5:56:00 AM
Another really good one, Janet. Always much enjoy your renditions.
J-Walk Says:
Sunday, November 2, 2014 @6:05:55 AM
Excellent playing, Janet (as always). That tune sounds so good on the cello banjo. Make sure you include this one on your greatest hits album.
JanetB Says:
Sunday, November 2, 2014 @9:19:13 AM
Thanks for listening and your most kind words. It seemed right to have a big, lower-pitched instrument to honor the 6'6" patriot who was kidnapped as a child, indentured as a boy, fought in the Revolution as a teenager, was "Sergeant at Arms" for the Virginia state Senate, and lived to be 71 with six children. Nothing like a 4'11" banjo picker to honor him! His many-times-great-grandson who wrote the book about Peter Francisco, called The Hercules of the Revolution, is also 6'6". There are monuments erected for him in Richmond, New Jersey and Massachusetts--a man the Portuguese are proud to remember.
Denton Says:
Sunday, November 2, 2014 @10:53:44 PM
Lively tune. Are there versus?
JanetB Says:
Monday, November 3, 2014 @6:19:20 AM
None that I know of, Denton. Check out the TOTW if you have time and watch the video for which I added a link on the second post. It tells you a lifetime's worth of ideas for lyrics, which you're better at writing than me!
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