Continuing our exploration of old time banjo and fiddle music, let’s look at a song called Barlow Knife. A Barlow knife is a style of folding pocket knife, invented in the UK and popularized in North America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Tom Sawyer had a Barlow knife.

This tune is sometimes also called Cabin Creek.

Here’s a nice fiddle version by John Kirk

And a Clawhammer banjo version by Larry Toto