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'''PINEY WOODS [1].''' Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, West Virginia. A Major. AEac# tuning (fiddle): capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aEADE, or gGDGB (banjo). West Virginia | '''PINEY WOODS [1].''' Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, West Virginia. A Major. AEac# tuning (fiddle): capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aEADE, or gGDGB (banjo). West Virginia fiddlers Burl and Sherman Hammons [https://www.loc.gov/folklife/LP/AFSL65andL66_Hammons.pdf] both played this very "crooked" cross-tuned (scordatura) modal melody, which may be a family original. | ||
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PINEY WOODS [1]. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, West Virginia. A Major. AEac# tuning (fiddle): capo at 2nd fret, 5th=a, aEADE, or gGDGB (banjo). West Virginia fiddlers Burl and Sherman Hammons [1] both played this very "crooked" cross-tuned (scordatura) modal melody, which may be a family original.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources:
Recorded sources: Lost Chicken Records, Dave Marshall, Andrea Cooper & Joel Bernstein - "Pleasant Hill" (2009). Marimac 9008, The Lazy Aces String Band - "Still Lazy After All These Years" (1986. Learned from Burl Hammons' recording). Rounder 0010, "The Fuzzy Mountain String Band" (1972). Erynn Marshall & Carl Jones - "Sweet memories...never leave."
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]
Hear Burl Hammons' recording at Slippery Hill [3][4]
See Dwight Diller's banjo tab [5]