Champion Fiddler, Inspired Performer
I remember when my brother Aaron and his class sang Down By the Old Mill Stream when he was in elementary school. They really went all out with it. They sang it straight first, and then they added some counter point … Down by the old (not the new but the old) mill stream (not [...]
One of the frustrating things about doing a new fiddle tune every day is that I often don’t get to spend as much time as I would like preparing a tune for the day. In fact, sometimes, the first time I played the tune was for the camera, and it’s done in one take. The [...]
Leather Britches is another tune that I learned when I stayed with Dick and Lisa Barrett as a teen. I remember Dick telling me to leave it exactly how I learned it for now, and that if I play it like that for a year or so that I could change it then. (I had [...]
Old Joe Clark is one of the best known fiddle tunes, due to the modern times version of it recorded by the electronic fusion band Rednex. Many different sets of lyrics have been written to Old Joe Clark, but as a fiddler, the tune is really what matters. Here is the traditional first verse, followed [...]
