Camp Meeting on the Fourth of July
July 4, 2017 9:39 PM
A seasonally-appropriate fiddle tune, with solo fiddle triple-tracked but otherwise unprocessed. The fiddle is in DDAD tuning, which I like a lot.
It's still the 4th of July here, so I went out to the shed and recorded this just now. I can't hear on the recording any of the fireworks that I could hear while playing, which is kind of a shame. Maybe I should have recorded outside.
The Traditional Tune Archive has this to say about the tune: "James Bryan has said that the tune was originally played as a processional for evening services at camp meetings in Arkansas in the 19th century. Bryan's source was Tom Jackson, who learned it from Coleman Barwick, an old-time fiddler from Blountsville, Alabama."
I learned this version from the playing of the Canote Brothers.
posted by hades (2 comments total)
It's still the 4th of July here, so I went out to the shed and recorded this just now. I can't hear on the recording any of the fireworks that I could hear while playing, which is kind of a shame. Maybe I should have recorded outside.
The Traditional Tune Archive has this to say about the tune: "James Bryan has said that the tune was originally played as a processional for evening services at camp meetings in Arkansas in the 19th century. Bryan's source was Tom Jackson, who learned it from Coleman Barwick, an old-time fiddler from Blountsville, Alabama."
I learned this version from the playing of the Canote Brothers.
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posted by rangefinder 1.4 at 1:57 AM on July 14, 2017