A tune I learned from the playing of Clyde Davenport
wonderful--I piddle with his flatwoods 3 finger style--I still strive for a usable tone with the picks on-- I notice you have switched to the clawhammer style lately,,it does have built in perks for sure--I just can't do everything ha ha
flatwoods is a whole different feeling almost a one chord drone was my concept --when I worked it up
Beautiful!
Thank you.
Beautiful, Eli! Really clean playing and lovely tone. Well done!
Interesting coincidence: my wife Maxine Gerber and I (both clawhammer banjo players) started noticing several years ago that there were a number of tunes, from certain fiddlers spread across the south, that were clearly related to this distinctive tune, but all with different names. A few of those: Buddy Thomas’s Kitty Puss, Gaither Carlton’s Tucker’s Barn, Burl Hammons’s Kick Mister Possum And He Won’t Come Down. So just recently, Maxine put together a little compilation of source recordings of those tunes, in the process discovering yet more related tunes. I think at this point, she’s found about thirteen of them! The odd thing is that only one (or maybe two) fiddlers from each region seem to have played each tune. My theory (with no evidence) is that there was an itinerant fiddler wandering through the south who played a great, but maybe unnamed, tune, and that one or two good fiddlers from each area picked it up and made it their own, each coining a new name for it. Total conjecture on my part, but that's my story and I'm stickin' to it!
Edited by - BrendanD on 10/07/2025 12:48:03
