groundhogpeggy - Posted - 01/31/2025:  15:41:52

Just a quick test to see if I got my studio one back up and running ok...it's been a struggle...lol.

Fiddle in GDGD and everything else raglar ol' tuning.

youtu.be/SY-6h9nj4rc?si=xJHpi3eZKNfzFMz1

Brian Wood - Posted - 01/31/2025:  16:00:09

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Originally posted by groundhogpeggy

Just a quick test to see if I got my studio one back up and running ok...it's been a struggle...lol.



Fiddle in GDGD and everything else raglar ol' tuning.



youtu.be/SY-6h9nj4rc?si=xJHpi3eZKNfzFMz1

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That sounds good, Peggy. I play a tune by that name that doesn't sound at all the same. Mine's in A. Glad you can record again.

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 01/31/2025:  17:02:07

Thanks. Yours is probably the right one...lol...my memory doesn't always get tunes right. Thanks for listening.

DougD - Posted - 01/31/2025:  17:14:38

Sounds like everything is working again!
We used to play this tune, but in D, whch we learned from Gaither Carlton, who also played it in D. There's a live recording on my music page here, but I won't attach it so as not to intrude on your "Homecoming." Ours seems a little frantic, but Gaither played it at a pretty good clip too.
In the M-K Collection there's also a tune by this name from Marcus Martin in Amin. Maybe that's what you play, Brian?

NCnotes - Posted - 01/31/2025:  18:54:48

Everything is sounding good - the tech…and the Music!

Thanks for sharing!

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 01/31/2025:  20:05:04

It felt good to be back in front of that lonesome ol' mic, playing my heart out and feelin' like a real groundhog! Thanks, guys.

loy - Posted - 02/01/2025:  03:10:15

Sounds really good Peggy! Glad your back ,up and running, I was wondering where you’ve been!

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 02/01/2025:  04:37:27

Thanks, Loy! Great to hear from ya! Yeah i've been around, just not making much noise...lol. Have a great day.

Brian Wood - Posted - 02/01/2025:  09:06:08

The one I play is credited to Marcus Martin. I learned it from a Rachel Eddy video. A whole different tune from the others. The kind of bluesy tunes in A I seem to like these days.

DougD - Posted - 02/01/2025:  09:30:21

Here's the tune as played by Marcus Martin: slippery-hill.com/content/cous...y-brown-0
Is that what you play, Brian?
Since things are already derailed a bit, here's Highwoods playing the tune in Germany, Spring, 1978. I don't know where we got the idea to sing those lyrics in that way. A bottle of Jim Beam, maybe?

Cousin Sally Brown

 

Brian Wood - Posted - 02/01/2025:  11:51:34

The version I learned is straightened out, but yes, that's the version I play.

ChickenMan - Posted - 02/01/2025:  15:19:37

Peggy's version has the same contours as Gaither and if she doesn't play as often as she says she doesn't play good on her for remembering any of it. Not playing or hearing a tune in awhile is when the tune slips away from my fingers and mind.

It's not the minor key of Mr Martin's version, who truly seemed to have his own takes on all of his tunes (Sugar in the Gourd cone immediately to mind)

Edited by - ChickenMan on 02/01/2025 15:23:26

DougD - Posted - 02/01/2025:  16:06:52

Chickenman - The way Peggy plays this tune is really quite similar to the recording by Ernest Stoneman and the Sweet Brotherst Carlb posted - same key and similar melodic contour. I was just mentioning that some people play it in D.
What Marcus Martin played is really a different tune with the same name.

Edited by - DougD on 02/01/2025 16:08:03

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 02/01/2025:  16:53:21

Oh Boy...a discussion! Lol...I don't usually know the history of tunes I play...just vague melodies dancing around in my head that sometimes surface...I do get 'em wrong, mixed up, etc., lots of times. I don't care about that so much though...I guess since I'm not any kind of musical historian, I just want something to play. If I get a tune and it's title right, and I get the way it goes pretty close...I'm happy...but I'm still happy when I just make a big mess outta things, because I love to play anyway...lol. I think of this one something like Candy Girl in a way...pretty much repetitive to the point of running the risk of boredom...except in GDGD, you can get one of those notes doubled up with the 3rd finger on the second string...and to me...that knocks the boredom right outta there. Of course, I missed it a few times...lol...my ring finger wouldn't always wake up when it needed to. But to me, that's what makes the tune (the way I know/play it). For me at least.

farmerjones - Posted - 02/02/2025:  06:12:23

Peggy, you just expressed the truest authenticity, of the old fiddlers.
You think Chester Copperleg, back 1850, gave a hoot about how Arnold Tigerknee played it? I should say not. Keep at it GHP! Sounds so fine!