What are your favorite fiddle tunes in G? I am trying to expand my repertoire with some more songs and G and D are some very common keys that I don’t know as many fiddle tunes in.
Here are a couple of my favorites:
Wheel Hoss
N.C. Breakdown
Will The Circle
$2 Dollar Bill
Big Footed Man in the Sandy Lot
Tenn Waltz
Redwing
Wabash Cannonball
Down Yonder
Old Indiana
Magnolia One Step
Elk River Blues
Old Liberty (also known as Liberty Off the Corn Licker Still)
Goin' to Jail
Glory in the Meetinghouse (fiddle tuning EDAE)
Wink the Other Eye
Ashcan Blues
Johnson Gals
Josie-O
And The Cat Came Back
...again, the list is subject to change at any moment.
Booth
John Brown's March
another vote for Josie-O
Are you tuned in GDAE? There are so many!
Shove That Pig's Foot a little Further in the Fire
Old Aunt Jenny with her Nightcap On
Broken Down Gambler
Miss McLeod's Reel
If you tune in GDGD, I'll shoot you some more.
Edited by - Earworm on 09/23/2023 06:01:13
Earworm - I hate to be a nitpicker, but since you mentioned the tuning GDAE, have you heard the recording of Marcus Martin playing the "Pigsfoot" tune? Its in concert Ab, but is usually described as crosstuned, and from the resonance of the fiddle that seems right to me (also there are two fiddles playing, IIRC also his son (?). Its interesting that for some tunes in this key family he apparently crosstuned, and not for others. I don't play this one, but I play his "Sugar in the Gourd," which I think is in GDAE. slippery-hill.com/content/sugar-gourd-0
Edited by - DougD on 09/25/2023 07:54:23
White Horse Breakdown
Flop Eared Mule
Jimmy in the Swamp
Down Yonder
Indian Corn
Blue Mule
Devil Eat a Groundhog (I love playing this one, it is very short though)
Jenny Lind Polka
Bound to Have a Little Fun
Blue Moon Waltz
Edited by - ChickenMan on 09/25/2023 20:42:55
Sugar in the Gourd (Marcus Martin)
Seneca Squaredance
John Brown's March
Leather Britches
Sunny Home in Dixie
Ebeneezer
Schottische in G (I think) Henry Reed
Old Man and the Old Woman
Dance All Night With a Bottle in My Hand
Cacklin' Hen
Teetotaller's Reel
Flowers of Edinburgh
Turkey in the Straw
Edited by - DougD on 09/25/2023 21:23:34
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