Fiddle Hangout Newest 100 Songs

Does this sound like "Garfield's Blackberry Blossom" ?

Not too much fiddle on this one, mostly "chops," though it carries the melody starting with the third time through. A multitrack recording using a Tascam multitrack recorder, a very slow, lazy and very simplified version of Larry Unger's tune "Elkins." Enoch 12" Tradesman (stuffed with a small towel at neck joint) playing lead in Double D, Martin HD-28 guitar on rhythm, Cloud Nine Marimbula on bass (use headphones/earbuds/other good speakers to pick up the sound), H. Luger CV-300 fiddle also playing some lead. This is certainly not a note-for-note accurate banjo version of Larry Unger's excellent tune, nor as well-played as Jason White's version on YouTube, but I have attempted to capture much of the essence of the tune as I hear it.

Big Mamou

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

Cotten Eye Joe

A multitrack version I recorded with fiddle (Liu Xi workshop, ADAE), clawhammer banjo (Enoch 12" Tradesman with Rickard Dobson ring), guitar, bass. I am unable to find much information about this particular tune, other than this link to its being played: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQrGJMvqCGQ If anyone has information about the tune, e.g., history, sources, please let me know. It's a tune that a number of us in the Crooked Lake Fiddle Club (Keuka Lake, New York) played often and regularly a few years ago. Unfortunately, so many members of the group have passed away in the past 4-5 years that the group has disbanded; very sad to lose the friendship and musicianship of so many of what was once a fun jam and performance group. The tune is very simple but catchy and fun to play.

just fiddlin

Hijaz

I learned to play this from a recording made by John Hoffman and Mac Benford (It?s About Time). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0Ta3mxxxCk But ? I think they mistakenly called it ?Old Hen She Cackled?. They only early version of this tune I found that sounds like the tune they recorded was from John Salyer called Old Hen Cackled. John Salyer / AEae https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/old-hen-cackled Most everything else I heard is not a ?variation? ? but a different ?version?. I have choosen to learn this version, because ?I like it.?

fiddling around

A multitrack recording of my slow and simple version of this Lynn Morris tune, where I'm playing clawhammer banjo (Enoch 12" Tradesman with Rickard Dobson tone ring, Double D), fiddle (low G tuned up to A), guitar, and bass. This version is more Old Time. Mostly banjo in this one, though fiddle is audible in the third round. As always, the bass will sound better with better headphones / earbuds / speakers.

C7 jam

Billy in the Lowground (Version 3)

Billy in the Lowground (Version 2)

A version I learned from a CD by Megan Lynch Chowning and Adam Chowning / Face To Face