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|f_annotation='''GRANDAD'S FAVORITE.''' American, Reel (cut time). A Major. AEae or GDgd tuning (fiddle). AABB. Ernie Carpenter gave this introduction to the tune in 1987: | |f_annotation='''GRANDAD'S FAVORITE.''' American, Reel (cut time). A Major. AEae or GDgd tuning (fiddle). AABB. Ernie Carpenter gave this introduction to the tune in 1987: | ||
My grandfather was a great old-time fiddler. He spent a lot of his time back in the early days of the settlement of the little town of Sutton, where I live, when it was just | |||
a small village. My grandfather...out of the old dugout canoes...he was a canoe-maker. And, he had a job of canoeing goods from Charleston, which was a hundred miles away, | : | ||
down Elk River. And he canoed all of the food and everything that they got in this little village, from Charleston up Elk River a hundred mile. And, of course they poled those | ''My grandfather was a great old-time fiddler. He spent a lot of his time back in the early days of the settlement of the little town of Sutton, where I live, when it was just'' | ||
canoes by hand, no such a thing as a motor at that time. He did that for many years. | ''a small village. My grandfather...out of the old dugout canoes...he was a canoe-maker. And, he had a job of canoeing goods from Charleston, which was a hundred miles away, '' | ||
<br> | ''down Elk River. And he canoed all of the food and everything that they got in this little village, from Charleston up Elk River a hundred mile. And, of course they poled those '' | ||
<br> | ''canoes by hand, no such a thing as a motor at that time. He did that for many years. '' | ||
One Christmas day...down there...they had certain places they would stop...stay all night or stop for the warm weather and fix them something outside...camp outside. | <br /> | ||
And this one time that they came down after a load of goods and goin' back...at one of their stopping places there was a young lady at the bar [ed. - sand bar] when | <br /> | ||
they landed out, and [she] had a fiddle. And she told my grandfather that she had heard that he could play a fiddle, and she was tryin' to learn to play the fiddle. | ''One Christmas day...down there...they had certain places they would stop...stay all night or stop for the warm weather and fix them something outside...camp outside. '' | ||
She had her a fiddle and she was trying to learn and wanted to know if he show her how to tune it and play a tune for her. He did. And when he got ready to leave, why, | ''And this one time that they came down after a load of goods and goin' back...at one of their stopping places there was a young lady at the bar [ed. - sand bar] when '' | ||
he played a tune for her and handed her the fiddle, and they pushed up off up the river. And they got up the river a way and looked back and she was wavin' at them and crying. | ''they landed out, and [she] had a fiddle. And she told my grandfather that she had heard that he could play a fiddle, and she was tryin' to learn to play the fiddle. '' | ||
<br> | ''She had her a fiddle and she was trying to learn and wanted to know if he show her how to tune it and play a tune for her. He did. And when he got ready to leave, why, '' | ||
<br> | ''he played a tune for her and handed her the fiddle, and they pushed up off up the river. And they got up the river a way and looked back and she was wavin' at them and crying. '' | ||
But he did that job there for many, many years, well, until they got the roads up the river from Charleston to Sutton to they could haul them otherwise. These tunes that I'm | <br /> | ||
playing here was tunes that he played. They were his tunes that he played. And, course he died before I started playing the fiddle, but my father was a good old-time | <br /> | ||
fiddler and he played the same tunes that my grandfather played, and they've been handed down from generation to generation for years. We're going to play a tune now called | ''But he did that job there for many, many years, well, until they got the roads up the river from Charleston to Sutton to they could haul them otherwise. These tunes that I'm '' | ||
"Grandad's Favor-ite." | ''playing here was tunes that he played. They were his tunes that he played. And, course he died before I started playing the fiddle, but my father was a good old-time '' | ||
''fiddler and he played the same tunes that my grandfather played, and they've been handed down from generation to generation for years. We're going to play a tune now called '' | |||
''"Grandad's Favor-ite."'' | |||
|f_printed_sources=Clare Milliner & Walt Koken ('''Milliner & Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes'''), 2011; p. 253. | |f_printed_sources=Clare Milliner & Walt Koken ('''Milliner & Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes'''), 2011; p. 253. | ||
|f_recorded_sources=Augusta Heritage AHR-023, Ernie Carpenter - "Old Time Fiddle Tunes from the Elk River Country" (2001. Recorded in 1986). Field Recorder's Collective FRC 204, "Ernie Carpenter: Recordings from the collection of the Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music" (2005). Musical Traditions MTCD517, Ernie Carpenter - "Oh, Listen Today...The Roots of American Old-Timey Fiddle Music Part 2" (2019. Various artists). Dave Marshall, Andrea Cooper, Joel Bernstein - "Pleasant Hill: old-time tunes for fiddle, banjo and harmonica". | |f_recorded_sources=Augusta Heritage AHR-023, Ernie Carpenter - "Old Time Fiddle Tunes from the Elk River Country" (2001. Recorded in 1986). Field Recorder's Collective FRC 204, "Ernie Carpenter: Recordings from the collection of the Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music" (2005). Musical Traditions MTCD517, Ernie Carpenter - "Oh, Listen Today...The Roots of American Old-Timey Fiddle Music Part 2" (2019. Various artists). Dave Marshall, Andrea Cooper, Joel Bernstein - "Pleasant Hill: old-time tunes for fiddle, banjo and harmonica". | ||
|f_see_also_listing=Hear Ernie Carpenter play the tune at the Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music, Oct. 1987 [https://dla.acaweb.org/digital/collection/berea/id/3114/]<br /> Hear Ernie Carpenter's recording at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/grandads-favorite]<br />See banjo tab (gDGBD, capo 2) at Taterjoes.com [http://www.taterjoes.com/Warehouse/Banjo/A_GrandadsFavorite.pdf]<br /> | |f_see_also_listing=Hear Ernie Carpenter play the tune at the Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music, Oct. 1987 [https://dla.acaweb.org/digital/collection/berea/id/3114/]<br /> Hear Ernie Carpenter's recording at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/grandads-favorite]<br />See banjo tab (gDGBD, capo 2) at Taterjoes.com [http://www.taterjoes.com/Warehouse/Banjo/A_GrandadsFavorite.pdf]<br /> | ||
}} | }} | ||
Revision as of 23:52, 2 August 2020
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GRANDAD'S FAVORITE. American, Reel (cut time). A Major. AEae or GDgd tuning (fiddle). AABB. Ernie Carpenter gave this introduction to the tune in 1987:
My grandfather was a great old-time fiddler. He spent a lot of his time back in the early days of the settlement of the little town of Sutton, where I live, when it was just
a small village. My grandfather...out of the old dugout canoes...he was a canoe-maker. And, he had a job of canoeing goods from Charleston, which was a hundred miles away,
down Elk River. And he canoed all of the food and everything that they got in this little village, from Charleston up Elk River a hundred mile. And, of course they poled those
canoes by hand, no such a thing as a motor at that time. He did that for many years.
One Christmas day...down there...they had certain places they would stop...stay all night or stop for the warm weather and fix them something outside...camp outside.
And this one time that they came down after a load of goods and goin' back...at one of their stopping places there was a young lady at the bar [ed. - sand bar] when
they landed out, and [she] had a fiddle. And she told my grandfather that she had heard that he could play a fiddle, and she was tryin' to learn to play the fiddle.
She had her a fiddle and she was trying to learn and wanted to know if he show her how to tune it and play a tune for her. He did. And when he got ready to leave, why,
he played a tune for her and handed her the fiddle, and they pushed up off up the river. And they got up the river a way and looked back and she was wavin' at them and crying.
But he did that job there for many, many years, well, until they got the roads up the river from Charleston to Sutton to they could haul them otherwise. These tunes that I'm
playing here was tunes that he played. They were his tunes that he played. And, course he died before I started playing the fiddle, but my father was a good old-time
fiddler and he played the same tunes that my grandfather played, and they've been handed down from generation to generation for years. We're going to play a tune now called
"Grandad's Favor-ite."
