Old Beech Leaves

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2016 Virtual Fiddle Festival June entry. Played on the Eastman 305 recorded with my Alcatel phone using Rec Forge app.

Old Joe Clark

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Uploaded for the Virtual Fiddle Festival. Such a common tune I'd never thought about recording it. Thanks, Peggy, for giving me a reason. Learned it back in the first lessons days and after all these years, this is what it has become. Hope you enjoy it!

Over the Waterfall

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Learned from Dave Losure, refined by listening to Henry Reed and elaborated upon by learning details from melodic 3 finger style banjo player Emmett Ady. Added for the Virtual Fiddle Festival Jan. 2014 session.

Quince Dillion's High D

Posted by ChickenMan, written by Quince Dillion

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Alan Jabbour and Ken Perlman lead a jam at the Folk Alliance International's Winter Camp 2014. Here Alan and Ken play the complete 4 parts of the tune as learned from Henry Reed's son who once asked Alan, "Didn't Dad show you all four parts?"

Rats in the Meal Barrel

Posted by ChickenMan, written by John A. Brown

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Learned from the playing of John Alexander Brown (b. 1869), recorded on May 12, 1939 in Iula, Mississippi. Part of the September '15; Virtual Fiddle Festival. Eastman 401 fiddle tuned GDad.

Salt Creek

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Size: 1,677kb, uploaded 9/17/2014 6:27:21 PM
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For the Bluegrass tune of the month Sept 2014.

Seneca Square Dance

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Learned from the recording of Sam Long on the Echos of the Ozarks vol 1 album

Shelving Rock

Posted by ChickenMan, written by Jeremiah Carpenter

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Learned for Virtual Fiddle Festival from a recording of French Carpenter. Played on the Maggini copy, tuned AEae

Shove the Pig's Foot a Little Farther in the Fire

Posted by ChickenMan, written by Marcus Martin

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Learned for the Virtual Fiddle Festival

Shuffle demo: 1

Written/Posted by ChickenMan

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Emphasis matters

Shuffle demo: 2

Written/Posted by ChickenMan

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Equal and square emphasis vs swing and rocking

Spotted Pony

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Learned from Dave Losure of the Flying Pig Fiddle and Banjo Band.

Sugar in the Gourd

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My take on this tune. I recorded this as an example of droning vs. not droning. The first part is single string and the middle is drones and unisons and the last is something of a mix. AEae tuning, Lyon and Healy fiddle

Tallapoosa Bound

Posted by ChickenMan, written by A. A. Gray

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Learned for the March 2015 Virtual Fiddle Festival. I don't have this one entirely under my fingers but wanted to record my progress thus far. Bear with the mushy first few bars, I had to dash from computer to recorder as there were several buttons to push to get the ball rolling.

That's My Rabbit My Dog Caught It

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Size: 1,863kb, uploaded 10/23/2014 7:25:28 PM
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Recorded for October 2014 Virtual Fiddle Festival Ukulele and Fiddle by yours truly, recorded with Rec Forge on my Android Phone then ping ponged off the computer to get both tracks.

The Hickman Rag

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Key of C for those of you playing along

Thomasson's Dry and Dusty

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Thomasson's version of Dry and Dusty. Somewhere Lewis recorded this as Bush in the Shucks.

Top O Cork Road Medley

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A bunch of tunes I learned as this set from a whistle player. Names I remember is sort of an order: Top O Cork Road, Smash the Windows, Boys of Donnybrook (or maybe Donnybrook Boys), Biddy of Sligo.

Twin Sisters at 75%

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Twin Sisters bowing quiz

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