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Going Down to Cairo

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Size: 3,406kb, uploaded 7/29/2014 6:46:58 AM
Genre: Old-Time / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen

Recorded (all except the bass, added later at home) while camping at NYS DEC Buck Pond Campground near Onchiota, NY last week. Multitrack recording in key of G: Fiddle (cross-tuned GDGD); Clawhammer Banjo (G tuning); Guitar (standard tuning); Marimbula (Bass) by Michael Allen, Cloud Nine Instruments. The fiddle and banjo start off part A and play throughout. The guitar and bass join in beginning with the first part B. The tune: GOING DOWN TO CAIRO. Old‑Time, Breakdown. USA. G Major. Standard tuning. AB. A version of “Liza Jane.” Cairo is a river town on the Mississippi at the mouth of the Ohio, and was quite a rowdy town in its day. The word "Cairo" is pronounced "Kay‑row."



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