This is a tune everybody references, but is rarely played in the old timey version. I kinda like it as the first time I heard it played was by Buffy Sainte-Marie, on a mouth-bow. It has words...
This is a great, short, hard-driving number. I can’t remember where I first heard it – but I have a suspicion it was from an old Dillards album. Straightforward, no frills G tuning – be great to have a fiddle with this...
An old-timey classic – the story is a recurrent theme in such songs as ‘Banks of the Ohio’. The song itself is a standard and there are as many versions as variations. This is another in gDGCD (mountain minor)...
This is one of the first old timey songs I learned when I discovered ‘mountain minor’ tuning – that’s really a modal tuning: I tune it gDGCD, but some folks also tune the fourth string down to C. This is loosely based upon the singing of...
