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Old-Time TOTW was created July 1, 2018. I upload a different Old-Time tune each week that airs every Sunday morning at 8:30am EST.
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we workshopped this tune at our Jam on Sunday. While studying the source, I found that both Slippery Hill and Traditional tune archive list the tuning that Snake used as ADAD. i personally love the tune in DDAD, especially in the C part with the low D drone. I just tried playing this in ADAD and I don’t find it as satisfying as fiddling it in DDAD.
Nice work !
"Get Up in the Cool has always sounded like a variant of Grub Springs to me, but crooked." TOTALLY !
As usual, love the bass dub. I hear “Money Musk” in the B part.
Thanks, this is a “Paddy” I didn’t know about.
Thank you so much for this tribute.😢😊 Dudley Vance is my Great Grandfather. He died before I was born but my Paternal Grandmother was his daughter Mary Vance Pullen. She died when was 7 but I met most of my Great Aunts and Uncles and went to Dudley Vances home where his son's Bruce, Sam, and Fred Vance lived many times for family celebrations when I was growing up. I moved far away now but am planning to be at the Bristol Rhythm and Roots in Sept 2024.
So wonderful to hear from you!
I’m digging this tune. It actually makes a very nice standalone banjo piece. Also, I did not envision the chords exactly like this when I first learned the tune on fiddle, but I really see that there are many opportunities for interesting chords behind the tune.
Great!
oh, that was fabulous!!!
Groovy! Sweet banjo layered in too! Lots to study here.
Hey Paul - I know you're gonna call me an ole fuddy-duddy for suggesting this, but did you ever think about playing many of these OT tunes a tad slower? Seems to me there's so much more musical definition in this one when I listen to it slowed down 25%.
The Oklahoma fiddlers apparently liked fast tempos. Thede has 144 bpm on this one.
@@PaulKirkFiddle Yeah, I hear ya. But that's just one gals opinion. Guess if I were a young buck at the Saturday Night Dance I'd want warp speed music, but over the years I have found many of these OT tunes seem to have a lot more music in em' when played around 75-90 bpm. Of course just my opinion, so play away.
It reminds me of a Grandpa Jones tune called "Bald-headed End Of the Broom".
Kia ora Brother. I really enjoy this, it is lively and makes me feel happy. I love seeing all these great players. It is really helpful having an introduction giving the title. I will listen to this again, and look out for others. Tena koutou. Thanks to all of you. Love to you all from New Zealand.
Enjoyed listening to granddaddy’s tune. You did a pretty good job playing it
Paul - love it when you dubb in the bass!
Well played!
Lovely rendition. Can you shed any light on another similar tune also called Old Paint that is performed by Linda Ronstadt. Here is one stanza that they share and some of the lyrics. Both are beautiful, but this other version is greatly simplified.
What is amazing is that Patterson and Frazer did not know each other except being gathered by Work and Lomax for the recordings they made at Works' House and for the 50th anniversary of Fish concert. Patterson was not from Nashville but from near Murfreesboro while Nathan Frazier lived all of his life in Nashville as far back as 1910. Frazier in addition to the laboring jobs he did was a street singer, part of a big busking tradition in Nashville, He would walk around with a banjo strapped to his back and people would pay him to play tunes they wanted, Patterson had a string band that sometimes did dances at what would become Middle Tennessee State in the Murfsburo area. Whereas Frazier had a series of laboring jobs in Nashville, Frazier worked mostly for a company that rented out metal working and other industrial machines to other companies and seems to have had the same address according to the sensus for most of this time. I once thought that the strong banjo lead in the Frazer and Patterson work was either a one-off or an unintended consequence of how Works living room was miced, but I am not more convinced that this was a characteristic of at least some African American string band playing, especially after the work I am doing on the interplay between Marion Underwood and Jim Booker Jr on recordings like Forked Deer and Gray Eagle as well as the way Murph Gribble Led the Gribble, Lusk, York band, from listening a lot to them as well as my many conversations about them and Gribble in particular with Stu Jamieson a couple decades ago. Thanks.
Sweet! Another tune to add to the Calico list!
Oh does that bring back memories..Vesta played music with my dad when we lived in Mo
Sounding Great guys !! Lovin them G tunes.
Great energy!!!
I learned that tune from Tina Bergmann and David Rice 25 years ago, and haven't heard it played since !!! Not many people know it.
Tina and Dave are some of my favorite people.
Very nice ! Thank you
Beautiful! Thank you, Paul!
Thank you for sharing the OIT photos!
Your fiddle sounds so great!
A very neat tune and very nicely played!
“”The A part he’s fooling around with the C# and the B he’s fooling around with the A” and “momentum not speed” are both really helpful takeaways for me. Thanks!
Thank you! This is one of my faves. ❤😊🎻🎻🎻
I never heard this song before but I really like it Paul.
Good one, Paul.
Love the tune and the photos !
Very sharp that you connect Marion Thede and A. Porter Hamblen. Nicely done, Paul.
Cool tune! Really appreciate all the info you put in the description.
how are you holding your viola? i have been searching for ways to hold my viola fiddle style when i stumbled across this video
I have a shoulder rest on it, and I set the viola on my chest.
I ❤ this tune, your performance and the city of Whitesburg also. Many thanks. I'd like to recommend Brett Ratliff's amazing 2021album "Whitesburg, Ky" 🇺🇸
I've thought for a while that this is the most romantic tune in Old time! Makes me remember the sweet times and look forward to more. Thanks Paul for the beautiful playing.
Thanks been obsessed with this song over the past year or so, nice reading that returns the song to its roots, oin the old time versions of its two parent songs, could listen to this all day thanks
Your thoughtful comments are always appreciated, Tony
Oh hey, it sounds like you have a cold. I hope you feel better.
I like the way you play that so much that I think I am going to learn it exactly like that!
Beautiful!!
Perfect ❤
3-2 huh? I've been calling it baaaaa nanatana bowing.
Nice tune! Are the tunes you teach on Patreon accompanied by musical scores/notation?
I don't include the written notation in the lessons, but when Patrons request the notation, I send it to them.
Nice geetar!
How hard is this crossover? I am learning viola. My first instrument. But I was raised on bluegrass and so badly want to play bluegrass with my viola.
Hi Velvie, that would depend on many factors, but it seems like you have the desire, so I say "go for it!"
Please up the mike level on Rapp's wonderful banjo playing.
Some similarity to Falls of Richmond.