I love when an algorithm does it's job. Stumbled on this fine tune the other day and it has me totally distracted. Loving this tune. Just wanted to share this version.
One of my all time favorite tunes..
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Originally posted by TuneWeaverOne of my all time favorite tunes..
First it was "Booth Shot Lincoln" now it's this. Pig Ankle Rag is my lesson project at this current time but dang, there is so many tunes I want to learn and grasp but there is not enough time in the day. "Focus, Eric...Focus" lol
Joe has rerecorded this tune on his new CD of all original tunes. Great stuff.
https://joethrift.bandcamp.com/track/one-more
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Originally posted by RobBobJoe has rerecorded this tune on his new CD of all original tunes. Great stuff.
https://joethrift.bandcamp.com/track/one-more
Thanks! Headed there now. There goes the rest of my day! :)
2 songs in...I just purchased.
Whiteface, IIRC originally (or where lots of folks learned the tune) was from the "Redhots" album... one of my favorite albums. Not sure if still available. [edit: I did find it online "Ready to Roll"]
Joe wrote many good tunes. There's a CD he released last year "One More" a collection of his most popular tunes.
He has been in a lot of other bands that have recordings... all good.
Edited by - alaskafiddler on 01/25/2023 16:42:58
Eric, since you mentioned Pig Ankle Rag - There are about 50 million renditions of that one on YouTube, but here are two of my favorites:
youtu.be/QKnDgIPh2N0 Its amazing, but this wild group actually sounds pretty musical. They're playing for a good cause too.
youtu.be/H2ZMmIGCHfA What's not to like here? An attractive girl who plays quite nicely and a guest appearance by Krazy Kat!
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Originally posted by DougDEric, since you mentioned Pig Ankle Rag - There are about 50 million renditions of that one on YouTube, but here are two of my favorites:
youtu.be/QKnDgIPh2N0 Its amazing, but this wild group actually sounds pretty musical. They're playing for a good cause too.
youtu.be/H2ZMmIGCHfA What's not to like here? An attractive girl who plays quite nicely and a guest appearance by Krazy Kat!
I remember where I first heard Pig Ankle Rag, some bunch of hippies called the Highwoods String Band. My wife is teaching it right now in another room.
Yeah, its kind of astonishing. Of course we didn't write it and I'm not exactly sure where we learned it, but I think Walt, Mac and Bob learned it from Ron Hughey out in California. Sam McGee played a somewht similar version that's on YouTube, but I think most modern renditions come directly or indirectly from our 1976 recording. Apparently it became an examination piece in some royal school of music curriculum, and there are YouTubes of people playing it all over the world.
One thing is that most people just learn the basic melody and repeat it over and over, but Ron played a lot of variations and so did Walt. Its in that little concert segment I posted on Dropbox, and although we'd already recorded it the record hadn't been released but the audience still responded. Its a catchy tune.
Enough about that. I still like Captain Banjo's Street band and Krazy Kat!
My fave pig ankle is Arkansas fiddler Ray Curbow's "Pig Ankle Blues", a slowed-down, crooked, and slightly different version. In fact, I think it's one of my favorite tunes, period. It's on one of the Rounder "Trad. Fiddle of the Ozarks" or something like that. Curbow credits the version to Glenn "Blue" (spelled waay differently), an older fiddler local to him.
Thanks for all the suggestions! I'll get through these today. I love that album "One More"
I have a special place with Highwoods String Band in my heart and look here...full circle!
20 plus years ago I was playing at the Purple Fiddle and a gentleman in an old Volkswagen van handed me two CDs.
Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers and Highwoods String Band. I was in love. I couldn't find much online and it seemed like that was the only album. I wore that CD out to the point it was unlistenable. I understand what twin fiddles are and how special that is now that I play.
One of the first songs I learned with my wife on bass was "You ain't talking to me"
Again, ya'll are gracious with music info and I'm grateful for it. Cheers!
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