fiddleshark - Posted - 12/03/2007:  22:04:44

Hi all,

I learned this one tune off of a cassette tape I made of Frank Ferrel playing at a fiddle camp last year, but I never knew the name of it. It's an awesome, crooked Canadian-sounding tune in A. I really know nothing about it, not even where it comes from, since Frank Ferrel plays in several genres. I believe he played it in a set with the Reconciliation. It's on my music page under "Unknown."

ladymuse - Posted - 12/04/2007:  16:16:43

Wow! that is cool! had only a second to listen - (interruption, but at first it sounds (part a) similar to the cambells
are coming - jazzed up) didn't get to the b part - what a great tune! (Greatly played! too!)
Jen

kyfiddler1 - Posted - 12/04/2007:  16:48:43

That is a good tune. You play it good too. Don't know the name of it.

Practice only on days that you eat!!

Kyfiddler1

bsed - Posted - 12/04/2007:  17:56:09

Taking a stab here. The A-part sounds a lot like The Girl I Left Behind Me. Maybe this is a Metis version of that or a related tune. The B-part was nice, it was jazzy, but the sound quality was a little distracting. I'm going to say that it is more rhythm than melody in the B. So the name of the tune (based on the first part) is The Girl I left Behind Me.
But let me be clear: That is how the A part of the tune goes, but I don't know where your version of the B part came from. But you played the tune very well!




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Edited by - bsed on 12/04/2007 17:59:07

fiddlepogo - Posted - 12/05/2007:  00:51:03

It definitely sounds Canadian,
and is a cool tune for sure.
The funny thing is, it sounds <very> familar,
like I've heard it very recently...
and the most recent Canadian fiddling I've heard
are the tunes Calvin Vollrath posted recently
here on his hangout homepage.
The only other place I've heard much Canadian fiddling
(Quebecois) is on Pascal Gemme's fiddling blog.

I just checked Calvin's 2 tunes:
http://www.fiddlehangout.com/myhang....asp?id=1399

Your tune is "Randy the Fiddling Fireman"!
Yes, I thought it sounded very familiar...
and yes, BSED, the first line does resemble "The Girl I Left Behind Me" a bit.

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Originally posted by fiddleshark

Hi all,

I learned this one tune off of a cassette tape I made of Frank Ferrel playing at a fiddle camp last year, but I never knew the name of it. It's an awesome, crooked Canadian-sounding tune in A. I really know nothing about it, not even where it comes from, since Frank Ferrel plays in several genres. I believe he played it in a set with the Reconciliation. It's on my music page under "Unknown."

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