Fiddle 3 (Mon) – week 3

Here’s “Frosty Morning.” Note that it’s frosty, but not a “Cold Frosty Morn,” which is a Melvin Wine tune. The Fuzzy Mountain String Band’s tune comes from Henry Reed. Click on Henry’s name to take you to a choice of recordings of Henry playing the tune on the wonderful American Folklife Center’s website “Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier.” Go visit again when you’ve got time to poke around. It’s very rich.

Frosty Morning

played slow

medium tempo

BTW: I just determined Fuzzy Mountain’s sources for our previous two tunes. They learned “Green Willis” from Taylor Kimble of Laurel, Virginia. “Magpie” came from Harlan Coble of Guilford County, North Carolina. Ironically, I was living in Guilford County in 1971 and ’72 when that Fuzzy Mountain LP first came out. Wish I had known. I was just then making my first (unsuccessful) attempt at learning the fiddle.

Bonus: a medium tempo banjo-fiddle duet of
Magpie

Filed under: Fiddle 3,Paul Tyler by Paul | March 16, 2010 | Comments (1)


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  1. Scruffy little buds « Ranch and Rodeo on March 21, 2010 8:51 am

    [...] for a busy week. I will do the Full Primary series. I will make some food. I will practice my tune for Fiddle class. I will teach a yoga class. I will look at my seed starter pots and *think* about [...]

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