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Size: 1,543kb, uploaded 5/29/2008 3:12:31 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
This is in Gm tuning. Written by Bill Monroe. It was the first tune I learned totally by ear. I had recorded it on a small cassette recorder as Bill Foster played it in the banjo competition, either at the Fiddler's Convention in Florence, or in Athens, prior to 1974. For some reason, in order to learn it, I made a wooden capo layered up from a kite frame, that skipped the 4th string, and rubber banded it on at the 5th fret. Later on, I found where those notes were on the fingerboard without needing the 1st - 3rd strings capoed. Listening to it, you can visualize the early settlers coming across the mountains, on foot, on horse back, in wagons, carrying everything they owned, and risking their lives heading into a new frontier. Banjo: 2008 Smith Walnut Legend, Device: Zoom H2 Recorder
3 comments on “Crossin' The Cumberlands”
Roll Player Says:
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 @9:30:27 PM
randal morton Says:
Sunday, October 19, 2008 @7:59:05 PM
Hey Hugh, Great playing! I have always loved Crossing The Cumberlands! Very Nice!
Your Friend, Randal
greadore Says:
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 @8:35:15 PM
Very nicely played! Shows you don't always have to have that hard drivin bluegrass to feel it.
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