Shortenin’ Bread is a tune from the turn of the century – the 19th to the 20th that is. I grew up thinking of it as a children’s song but I’m rethinking that.
Check out this excellent performance by Chicken Train, filmed by a banjo picker named Dean Barber at Clifftop 2012.
That is some top-rate Old Time music in my books!
Here are some buskers called the Water Tower Bucket Boys playing it in Seattle back in 2009…check out the dancers!
Finally, just for the fun of it, here are the Collins Kids on Tex Ritter’s Ranch Party…
27th Street 
Thank you for the amazing music.
Thank you johncoyote. I don’t get many comments on my music posts and sometimes I think my readers kind of just tolerate them – so I really appreciate the good word.
You are welcome. I like the music post. I found the best new singers this way.