Here’s a bunch of guys playing West Fork Gals on somebody’s front porch. This tune has one of the prettiest melodies. I sometimes wonder where that particular West Fork might be….
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Sandy River Belle
Sandy River Belle is a well-known fiddle tune, but it also has a special distinction. There is a particular banjo tuning – The Sandy River Belle tuning – named after it. I should say tunings with an s because there are variations on the Sandy… Read More
Off to play Go…
I’m off to play some Go this evening so I’ll leave you with a little something to listen to. Here’s Kilby Snow playing autoharp and singing Troubles….
Why traditional music #617 (Rake & Rambling Boy)
This performance by Emily and Thornton Spencer sends chills down my back. Here are the same pair, as part of the Whitetop Mountain Band from 1990… Emily Spencer with Martha Spencer doing the Carter family tune, Distant Land to Roam…
Not exactly a carol, but….
I know of just one tune in Old Time music that mentions Christmas, and that’s an old fiddle tune called Breaking up Christmas. This song is usually associated with the Round Peak style (this refers to the particular way old time music is played in… Read More
Where do you get your whiskey?
I get mine in Rockingham…. Here’s Bruce Molsky performing I get my Whiskey in Rockingham
Forked Deer
It’s pronounced Fork-id Deer or sometimes Forky Deer, and it’s one of my fave fiddle tunes. It’s one of the tunes I attempt to play on clawhammer banjo. Here are a couple nice performances of the tune. First up is the Berline, Crary and Hickman…… Read More
Fortune
Here are Craver, Hicks, Watson and Newberry performing Fortune at the Cook Shack (from YouTube)
Another Western Canadian fiddle master (or why traditional music # 877)
I featured Calvin Vollrath the other day. Now let’s here Manitoba fiddler Patti Lamoureux (Kusturok) along with Sabin Jacques on accordion and Jeremy Rusu on guitar, performing a Quebecois medley.
Cumberland Gap
Wet evening around here. My walk with the Newfs this evening was shorter than usual. Neither the dogs nor I were interested in walking around outside for long. This seemed like a good evening to sit back and learn a new tune on the banjo.… Read More
27th Street 