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Old-time fiddle, Round Peak style, CD included with 83 tunes : history, tips, & techniques, by Brad Leftwich

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Includes discography (pages 124), filmography (p. 124) , bibliographical references (p. 124-125) , and index

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Old-time fiddle, Round Peak style

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by Brad Leftwich

CD included with 83 tunes : history, tips, & techniques

Presents traditional Southern old-time fiddling from the world-renowned Round Peak area of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. All of the tunes are included on the CD as transcribed. Helpful stylistic tips and important background information on the area and the music are included

Round Peak : a hill, a community, a tradition -- The area around the turn of the 20th century (map) -- Tommy Jarrell and the fiddlers who influenced him. Tommy Jarrell (1901-1985) ; Ben Jarrell (1880-1946) ; Charlie Jarrell (1874-1943) ; Tony Lowe (1883-1914) ; Pat McKinney (1846-1926) ; Houston Galyean (1853-c1906) ; Logan Lowe (1867-1944) ; John Rector (1899-1994) and Fred Hawkes (1891-1979) ; Hiram Moody, aka Hiram Harris (1888-1966) ; Zach Payne (1845-1929) -- Using the CD and the book -- The fiddler's tricks of the trade -- Tablature and special symbolsTranscriptions. AE'A'E'' tuning (key of A). Baby-o ; Big-eyed rabbit ; The blackest crow (My dearest sweetheart) ; Breaking up Christmas ; Chilly winds ; Cluck old hen ; Cotton-eyed Joe ; Cripple Creek ; Darling Nellie Grey ; Fire on the mountain ; Granny, will your dog bite? ; Greasy string ; Groundhog ; Ida Red ; John Brown's dream ; John Hardy ; John Henry ; June apple ; Kitty Clyde (Katy Cline) ; Let me fall (Old hard road) ; Little Maggie ; Lonesome road blues ; Old bunch of keys ; Old Joe Clark ; Police ; Poor Ellen Smith ; Pretty little girl ; Pretty Polly ; Rainbow sign ; Round town gals (Buffalo gals) ; Ruben ; Shortening bread ; Sourwood Mountain ; Stay all night ; Sweet sunny south ; The tater patch tune ; Train on the island ; When sorrows encompass me round -- AE'A'C♯ tuning (key of A). The drunken hiccups (Jack of diamonds) -- AD'A'E'' tuning (key of D). Arkansas traveler ; Backstep Cindy (Stepback Cindy) ; "Old-time" Backstep Cindy (Holly Ding) ; The bravest cowboy ; Cider (Stillhouse) ; Ducks on the mill pond ; Fall on my knees ; Fisher's hornpipe ; Forky deer ; Fortune ; The joke on the puppy (Rye straw) ; Mississippi sawyer ; New River train ; Old Jimmy Sutton ; Old Molly Hare ; Peek-a-boo (Green gravel) ; Polly put the kettle on ; Richmond cotillion ; Ricketts' hornpipe ; Rochester schottische (Walking in the parlor) ; Rockingham Cindy ; Sally Ann ; "Old-Time" Sally Ann ; Say, darling, say ; Soldier's joy (Love somebody) ; Sugar Hill ; Susananna gal (Western country) ; Tempie ; They say it is sinful to flirt (Willie my darling) ; The wreck of the Old 97 ; The yellow rose of Texas -- DD'A'D'' tuning (key of D). Boll weevil ; Bonaparte's retreat ; Ryland Spencer -- AD'A'D'' tuning (key of D). Frankie Baker (Frankie and Albert) ; Tumblin gap (Cumberland gap) -- GD'A'D'' tuning (key of G). Flatwoods -- GD'A'E'' tuning (various keys). Cackling hen ; Dance all night with a bottle in your hand ; Devil in the strawstack ; Old Buck (Paddy on the turnpike) ; Piney woods gal ; Sail away ladies ; Walking in my sleep

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