Another great turnout at the Dusty Strings jam today, including a dobro (ok, a resonator guitar played lap-style; I didn’t check the brand) and a stand-up bass, neither of which I think we’ve seen at this jam before. Hooray for …
There was a great turnout this month; thanks to everyone who came! Special thanks to Dan, who put together a packet of sheet music and chords for a lot of the tunes we play regularly — I’m going to go …
Tunes played at the Dusty Strings jam this month: Buffalo Gals (D) Soldier’s Joy (D) Tune of the Month: Cold Frosty Morning (A Dorian) (Download) Moon and Seven Stars (D) Matt’s Polka (Am) Arkansas Traveler (D) The Girl I Left …
Tonight’s tune at the last session of the Fall 2013 string band class was “Indian Nation”, from Ernie Carpenter by way of Jimmy Triplett. (Download) Here’s Ernie Carpenter playing it, apparently in GDAD tuning: (Download)
Tonight’s string band tune was a C tune: “Down In Little Egypt”, from Noah Beavers (1898–1990) of Elkville, Illinois. The tune was collected from him by the Indian Creek Delta Boys in the 1970s, without a title at the time. …
A huge turnout at the Dusty Strings jam today — we ended up expanding the circle out to the walls of the room, and still had some folks squeezed into the corners. The tunes we played were: Old Joe Clark …
Thanks to everyone who came out on a grey November afternoon! These are the tunes I wrote down that we played, which I’m not sure is a complete list. I’ll double-check with the recording later. In A: Old Joe Clark …
Tonight’s tune from the string band class was introduced as “Rabbit in the Pea Patch, [a] version of Rickett’s Hornpipe from Melvin Wine”. At some point I have to wonder about how the folk process works with tune names. Is …
Tonight’s tune at the string band class was “Molly Put The Kettle On”, from John Sharp by way of Paul Brown. Here are the Canotes and Candy Goldman playing it for the class, with Greg’s fiddle in cross-A (AEAE): (Download) …
Tonight’s tune from the string band class was “Shady Grove”, from Luther Davis of Virginia: (download) Here’s Luther playing the tune: (download)