Old Mose
Tonight’s tune from the Canote brothers’ stringband class was “Old Mose”, collected by Garry Harrison from Howard Sims, of Modesto, Illinois. He had it in C, but Dan Gellert sets it in G, which is the key we learned it …
Category: Tunes
Gentleman From Virginia
I’ve started going to the Canote brothers’ stringband workshop, and will post recordings from those as a backup to the mossyroof archive. Tonight we learned a tune by North Carolina fiddler Tommy Hunter called “Gentleman From Virginia”: (download) Here’s the Foghorn Stringband …
Red Prairie Dawn
I came back from Fiddle Tunes a little obsessed with fiddle tunes from the Midwest, which hadn’t really been on my radar until now. I was especially taken with some tunes written by Garry Harrison, who died tragically young last …
The Blackest Crow
Also known as “As Time Draws Near” or “My Dearest Dear”. Fragments of and variations on the lyrics appear all over the place from the British isles to Alabama, set to different music, and probably this music has had many …
Little Billy Wilson
Also known as “Billy Wilson”, “Old Bill Wilson”, and “Ace of Spades”. Standard notation is available at http://www.tunearch.org/wiki/Billy_Wilson as part of the magnificent Traditional Tune Archive. This banjo tab is based more or less on Cathy Fink’s playing in Slow …
Shove That Pig’s Foot A Little Farther In The Fire
I transcribed this version from a YouTube video (below) of The Transatlantic Sessions. The tune is led by Bruce Molsky, so I’m assuming this is his arrangement. Download: Compressed MusicXML More info on the tune can be foundd at the …
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Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
We’re still working on this, but in the meantime, here’s some banjo tab. Download: TablEdit (TEF)
Red Haired Boy
Also known as Little Beggarman and, apparently, Soldier With A Wooden Leg. This is Miles Krassen’s version, with chords from Brody and Silberberg. Both Krassen and Brody have this in A Major, with accidentals pulling the G# back down to …
Saint Anne’s Reel
This is from the Fiddler’s Fakebook: Download: Compressed MusicXML Banjo tab: This is Dan Levenson’s version, with some tweaks by Cam: Download: TablEdit (tef) Videos: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE7Gbk7XlKw httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYIo2CtDSUI
Shady Grove
This one comes from Allen Hart’s banjo class at Dusty Strings. There are a ton of versions of Shady Grove out there, and we’re starting from Allen’s banjo tab, so I’ll probably have to figure out a good fiddle version …