Old Time and Bluegrass music
The local scene
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C-ville coffee (pretty bad website) Devil's Backbone (Nellysford) Pippin Hill winery (North Garden, no music details on website now) Grand Junction (Stony Point, no real website but try this) |
Don't Tell Darlings (inactive) Lulu & the Virginia Creepers (inactive)
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There is an old-time jam session every Monday evening 7PM, at the Unitarian (?) church on Rugby Avenue at Fendall Ave, hosted by Pete Vigour and CFOOT. Also there is a Wayneboro jam on Tuesdays (no details).
Sheet music
Most old-time tunes are in the public domain. I've been using MuseScore to recreate scores for tunes that are not in the Fiddler's Fakebook or were needed in a different key. Here they are in MuseScore format, as well as in PDF (some are formatted like a Fakebook page) and some links to MIDI files. Many are works in progress!
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| D | Winder's Slide |   |
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| D | Needle case | |
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| D | Cherokee Shuffle (two parts) | |
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| D | Folding Down the Sheets | |
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| D | Maggots in the Sheepshide | ||
| D | Spotted Pony | |
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| D | Sadie at the Back Door |  |
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| D | Duck River | |
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| D | Forked Deer | |
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| G | Turkey in the Straw | |
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| D | Five Miles from Town | |
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| A | Jenny ran away in the mud in the night | |
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| D | Sal's got mud between her toes | |
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| D | Chuck in the Bush |  |
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| D | Oh dem Golden Slippers | |
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| D | Big Rock Candy Mountain | |
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| Ballad of Jed Clampett | |
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| Pig Ankle Rag | |
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| G | Irish Washerwoman (4 parts) | Video link |
Some practice recordings:
Some other recordings:
- Chinese Breakdown (CFOOT) AIF
- Chinese Breakdown (Eli Fitch) MP3
FiddleHangout) - Obama's March to the White House (Canote Brothers) MP3
- A Youtube of Down Yonder
- Rock the Cradle Joe (11MB AIF)
- Step around Johnny (6MB AIF)
- Too Young to Marry (8MB AIF)
- Cherokee Shuffle/Lost Indian (3 parts, 2.5MB AIF)
- Cumberland Gap (the correct version, 5MB AIF)
Still need to work on:
- Pig Ankle Rag
- Red Wing [Union Maid] in the book. Samples:
Pete seeger and Arlo Guthrie (guitar & banjo)
Old Crow Medicine Show (there's a fiddle in there)
Old Crow Medicine Show at FloydFest 2011 (totally rocking!) - Shove that pig's foot a little closer to the fire (G, MIDI, BH discussion)
- Julie-Ann Johnson (PDF, MIDI, )
- Sally-Ann Johnson (PDF, MIDI).
- Camp Meeting on the 4th of July (PDF, MIDI)
Still need to find:
- John Henry
- Shuffle around
- Going down the road to Georgy-o (?)
- Been all 'round this world (Pete has a score for that)
- Crook brothers
- Water bound
- Brushy Run
- Shepherd's Waltz
Sheet music links
Tabs from Banjo Hangout and Banjo Hollow, and Fiddle Hangout
Easy bluegrass banjo tabs-easybluegrassbanjo.wordpress.com
John Lamancusa's Collection of tunes on Penn State website (probably the best single resource)
Hetzler's Fakebook - over 500 songs
Traditional Music Library - this site is awkward to navigate but there is a lot of content. Use the search.
Abba Moses fiddle tunes
The Bluegrass College - Fakebook for six different instruments, but not that many songs
Jake Satterfield - hard to find lyrics (the only ones on the internet!)
Brief history of the Goodtime banjo
http://blog.deeringbanjos.com/advances-in-the-goodtime-banjo-why-do-they-sound-so-good/
- 1996 introduced with the Gumby peg head.
- 2001 or earlier the Special was introduced with the Mastertone-style steel tone ring
- 2001 or earlier, Goodtime 2 introduced.
- At some point the tension hoop was made thicker
- 2007 or earlier, Goodtime Special Classic but without planetary tuners
- June 2008 or earlier, Goodtime Classic with fiddle peghead (but without planetary tuners at first) http://instrumentalley.blogspot.com/search/label/goodtime
- In 2008 all of them got the 3-ply pot ('3' stamped under the tailpiece for a while).
- June 2009 fiddle peg head started phase-in on the regular Goodtimes
- October 2009 Midnight Special (planetary, numbered on back of peg head) and plectrum http://bluegrasstoday.com/two-new-goodtime-banjos/
- At some point (late 2009 into 2011) the Crow version of the Goodtime & Goodtime 2 was introduced as part of a package.
- In early 2010 the regular Special got the fiddle head and the new tone ring ('P' stamped under the tailpiece).
- Late 2012 the Rare Bird Alert package came out (open back only?)
- April 2013 Zombie Killer
