Annotation:Fiddler's Dram (1): Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
mNo edit summary |
||
| Line 24: | Line 24: | ||
See also listing at:<br> | See also listing at:<br> | ||
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/g04.htm#Givthfia]<br> | Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/g04.htm#Givthfia]<br> | ||
Hear James Crase's version at Slippery Hill [ | Hear James Crase's version at Slippery-Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/fiddler-dram]<br> | ||
</font></p> | </font></p> | ||
<br> | <br> | ||
Revision as of 09:54, 23 December 2015
Back to Fiddler's Dram (1)
FIDDLER'S DRAM. AKA - "Fiddler a Dram." AKA and see "Give the Fiddler a Dram." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; central West Virginia, northeast Alabama. G Major/Mixolydian (Spandaro): A Mixolydian (Milliner & Koken). Standard, AEae (James Crase) or DGdg (Harvey Sampson) tunings (fiddle). AAB (Milliner & Koken): AABB (Spadaro). The tune was a standard one in the square dance fiddler repertoire as asserted by A.B. Moore in History of Alabama (1934) {Cauthen, 1990}.
Source for notated version: James Crase (Bear Branch, Kentucky) [Milliner & Koken]. Crase was recorded in the field in 1959 by John Cohen.
Printed sources: Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 193. Spadaro (10 Cents a Dance), 1980; p. 42.
Recorded sources: Augusta Heritage Recordings AHR-004C, Harvey Sampson and the Big Possum String Band - "Flat Foot in the Ashes" (1986/1994. Learned by Calhoun County, W.Va., fiddler Harvey Sampson from his father). Fantasy 24711, "The Holy Modal Rounders." Folkways SF CD 40077, James Crase - "Mountain Music of Kentucky" (1996. Originally released in 1960).
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear James Crase's version at Slippery-Hill [2]
Back to Fiddler's Dram (1)