Twelvefret - Posted - 07/09/2008:  18:14:13

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The fiddle is tuned to GBGB.

http://www.banjohangout.ws/users/au...14972008.mp3

chuck



"When Banjos are Outlawed, only Outlaws will have Banjos." Bisbonian


Here is a good site for OT music. http://www.aca-dla.org/

loy - Posted - 07/10/2008:  04:18:39

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Good one Chuck,enjoyed it. Thanks- Loy

fiddle and clawhammer banjo:priceless

Jim - Posted - 07/10/2008:  07:44:43

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Well done Chuck. Handsome Molly is a magical tune. It is one of my all time favorites because it sounds great across a wide variety of instruments, rhythms and styles.

Jim Burke
http://fiddlehub.com (free online fiddle lessons with slo-mo instruction videos)

Bird Dog - Posted - 07/10/2008:  08:23:11

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Originally posted by Twelvefret

The fiddle is tuned to GBGB.

http://www.banjohangout.ws/users/au...14972008.mp3

chuck

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Oh I love that sound! Nice work and thanks.

Robin

Bird Dog - Posted - 07/10/2008:  08:27:32

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Originally posted by Jim

Well done Chuck. Handsome Molly is a magical tune. It is one of my all time favorites because it sounds great across a wide variety of instruments, rhythms and styles.

Jim Burke

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Jim, I couldn't agree more. I wonder what it is that makes some tunes like that. I suppose that could become a thread in itself, but I doubt we'd actually figure it out. Tunes like this act on me like historical artifacts: They take me back to times and places long gone. I feel as if I'm getting into the heads and feelings of people past, and understanding them better.

As far as Handsome Molly goes, have you ever heard Peggy Seeger's live rendition from the 1960 Newport Folk Festival? It's the recording that got me into old-time music, and is to this day my favorite banjo piece.

Robin

Jim - Posted - 07/10/2008:  11:38:35

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[ have you ever heard Peggy Seeger's live rendition from the 1960 Newport Folk Festival? It's the recording that got me into old-time music, and is to this day my favorite banjo piece.

Robin

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No, I have not heard that rendition; but with your recommendation I'm sure I should. Any idea where I might dig up? Pat Dunford used to play this on the banjo, and it was mighty fine as well. He was a very good player and singer from Indiana. I don't think he made any recordings of this tune, more's the pity.

Jim Burke
http://fiddlehub.com (free online fiddle lessons with slo-mo instruction videos)

DougD - Posted - 07/10/2008:  12:56:00

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You can hear a classic version by Grayson and Whitter here: http://www.archive.org/details/Molly

Bird Dog - Posted - 07/11/2008:  12:12:19

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Love Grayson's fiddling! Simple but wonderfully evocative of the mountains.

The Peggy Seeger rendition (probably more of interest to banjo players) was on one of the 2 Vanguard recordings of the 1960 Newport Folk Festival - out of print now, I guess. I think it was also on her American Folk Songs for Banjo, which I never heard, and which to this day is my Most Wanted Album. My favorite banjo player!

Oh the mythical beautiful women we worship through music! Handsome Molly, Shady Grove, Omie Wise, Poor Ellen Smith, Polly Vaughn, Laurie Foster, and the nameless "my love" from Banks of the Ohio.

Robin

DougD - Posted - 07/11/2008:  15:27:57

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Bird Dog - I live about a mile from where G. B. lived, and sometimes I think I can still hear his little Japanese fiddle. Lately though, its usually my girlfriend playing her new Grayson and Whitter CD (she's from another branch of the family). I'm reminded again how much those tunes and songs are still played around here (and everywhere really).
I wish Henry Whitter wouldn't have yelped so much, but he was from Virginia after all!

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Bird Dog - Posted - 07/12/2008:  16:12:27

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Ha! Yeah, I can recall some other old-timers who yelped and hollered on record. So you're saying Virginians are prone to that? It's good to think that those tunes and songs are being played, there and elsewhere, for sure. It's just such wonderful stuff - to those of us who are in on the secret.

Robin

DougD - Posted - 07/12/2008:  18:44:35

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So you're saying Virginians are prone to that?

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No, just that they're unfortunately situated compared to Tennesseans! Sometimes they have to howl about it.

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Edited by - DougD on 07/12/2008 18:54:11