You sound so cool!

edit: joined , followed, found back that beautiful cooperation :Thoughts On Worry <3 

Sounds Real Geo ! nice job !

Oops, forgot to mention about the name... it's another reference to "Eighth of January" - (if thought it sounded similar)

There's a bit of history about that, I'm not exactly sure all of it... but other folks might want to delve into.

Of course most folks also think of Jimmy Driftwood's "Battle of New Orleans"

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Originally posted by Quincy

You sound so cool!

edit: joined , followed, found back that beautiful cooperation :Thoughts On Worry <3 

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Cool?   

The BandLab thing is free way to do multi-tracking (including just phone or tablet); but allows to do collaborations. That "Thoughts on Worry" was FHO Erokin's composition and original recording of guitar and vocal; he invited others to add parts or ideas... banjo, bass, fiddle.

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Oops, forgot to mention about the name... it's another reference to "Eighth of January" - (if thought it sounded similar)

There's a bit of history about that, I'm not exactly sure all of it... but other folks might want to delve into.

Of course most folks also think of Jimmy Driftwood's "Battle of New Orleans"

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Driftwood's "Battle of N.O." was reportedly written as a means of teaching a nugget of history to his high-school class (He was a history teacher).  He added lyrics to an already old fiddle tune that was very popular in the deep south and beyond.   Nowadays most versions of Eighth of January follow the Driftwood melody, but there were lots of variations recorded in the 20s and 30s.  Herbert Halpert captured four different versions in field recordings from around the state of Mississippi in the 1930s.  I usually play a version somewhere between John Hatcher's (from the Halpert recordings) and one from NW Alabama fiddler Sam McCracken, who was born in the 1880s and learned to play around the turn of that century.

Here's Sam with his version, recorded from the stage of the TN Valley OT Fiddler's Convention around 1970.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCJvUe4MnH8 

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Originally posted by Quincy

You sound so cool!

edit: joined , followed, found back that beautiful cooperation :Thoughts On Worry <3 

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Cool?   

The BandLab thing is free way to do multi-tracking (including just phone or tablet); but allows to do collaborations. That "Thoughts on Worry" was FHO Erokin's composition and original recording of guitar and vocal; he invited others to add parts or ideas... banjo, bass, fiddle.

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I know you ARE pretty cool on the fiddle , for sure, right.  You are the one with the different styles/dialects  demo, you'll always be in my mind that person in the first place., sorry for that , I think I might have said that before, it's been years and years ago now.  And I know it's Erockin's composition right :-)) Was happy to find your Bandlab cooperation with him back.!

Hey, I have my contemporary fiddle master examples as well .

Yesterday I had some interaction with an amazing french fiddler who played his own version with french lyrics of the tune Shady Grove. That was also pretty cool! As far as for my definition  of 'cool':-D hehe