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Thursday, May 16, 2024

#24 Booth Shot Lincoln

 From the playing of fiddler Marcus Martin from North Carloina.  Martin fiddled in in cross G (GDGD).  Since there is no videos of Martin playing it, here is a good version from Uncle Earl as our source video.



Wednesday, May 15, 2024

#23 Redwing

This old-timey is well loved in the Upper-Midwest.  I am having Claire and Walt be the source file again because I just love the way they fiddle!



Wednesday, May 8, 2024

#22 Going Down to Cairo

This tune is played at almost every Jam in G I am at. A real earworm of a Liza Jane varient. Instead of a source video, I linked to my buddy AJ teaching it on fiddle.


#21 Kitchen Girl

This is a common modal tune from the playing of Henry Reed. Since there is not a good Youtube video of a Reed recording I have Walt and Claire's version as the source.

 

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

#20 Ebenezer

A few of my banjo students really like this one.  Old sources go back to Virginia and West Virginia under different title.  You can never go wrong wth Claire and Walt as your source version, but I do play it a little different.



 

Monday, May 6, 2024

#19 Girl I left Behind Me

This is a very old and very common tune.  Someone reminded me of it at a jam yesterday.  Source version from the mighty Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers.



Sunday, May 5, 2024

#18 Seneca Square Dance

Here is a duet I did with local autoharp player, Steve Braden.  I always here this tune, but never really took the time to learn it, so I was playing it on the fly with Steve.  The source fiddle version I am incuding today is not so much a source version, but is a version I really like. Patti Kusturok is a great fiddler from up in Canada, who tirelessly promotes Canadian fiddle music.