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tiquose - Posted - 04/27/2009: 18:56:52
Thanks, Chirps! That's a good tune. What's its history?
Janet
"Curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back." -my grandmother, Bertha Morgan Nelson
bsed - Posted - 04/27/2009: 19:02:56
This tune has a real different syncopation that I can't recall ever hearing in any other OT tune! When I look for new tunes to learn, I often look for these "hooks". Thanks for posting this 'un (ja, fer sure)!
Just call me Dwight.
loy - Posted - 04/28/2009: 04:04:12
Really really well done, enjoyed it! Thanks- Loy
fiddle and clawhammer banjo:priceless
fiddler59 - Posted - 04/28/2009: 05:20:54
That is some great fiddlin there...I really dig the tune too !!
David Blackmon
Fiddlin with peoples heads !!!
Fiddlepiper - Posted - 04/28/2009: 22:09:15
Great old timey tune. I can hear the "don't spook the herd in it" Like your rhythm.
Midwest_Fiddler - Posted - 04/30/2009: 13:51:04
quote:
Originally posted by tiquose
Thanks, Chirps! That's a good tune. What's its history?
Janet
Now if you all take out your
Dear Old Illinois books and turn to page 304, tune #167:
Ol Woodyard. The tune was collected 1/5/1977 from a fellow named Eldon Skaggs (1908-1988) of Stoy, IL. I don't recall ever meeting him- Garry Harrison recorded him.
I had a tape with some tunes on it some time ago and it had some of the tune titles mixed up. For the longest time I new this tune as "Unnamed Tune". My buddy, Joe Samojedny, started calling it
Don't Spook the Herd (I like that title). Fairly recently I found out from Garry that the tune I was calling
Ol Woodard's Tune (I wasn't sure of the spelling) was indeed a tune from Willie O. Ault (1894-1985, Hidalgo, IL) called
Indian Corn (DOI #112, page 278, recorded 1/1/1978).
I recorded the tune along with Paul Tyler & Stephanie Coleman for a CD put out by the Illinois Humanities Council,
Folksongs of Illinois Volume 2. See:
http://www.prairie.org/Music for info. On that recording I gave it the wrong title- oops.
Hopefully, everyone will read this message and now know... the rest of the story.
Your Obedient Servant,
Chirps
PS: Don't have DOI book or CDs? Get yourself to
http://www.dearoldillinois.com/index.html and remedy that situation immediately.
Edited by - Midwest_Fiddler on 04/30/2009 13:51:59
Midwest_Fiddler - Posted - 05/07/2009: 03:27:03
quote:
Originally posted by devilsbox
Hey Chirps, how are ya? Mt Airy this year?
You put "Ol' Woodard's Tune" on the Fiddle-L Anthology.
http://www.fiddle.net/anthology/
Larry
So I did. 1st one under my name is it- actually entitled
Indian Corn. The 2nd one is
Four & Twenty Blackbirds Dancing on a Fawn Skin.
Thanks for the reminder.
No Mt. Airy this year- MT Fiddle Camp.
Chirps
Supertone - Posted - 05/07/2009: 09:23:47
Super cool Chirps! Thanks for posting.
Yer pal,
John
