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May 3, 2012

Blue Eagle Hornpipe – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 123

I first heard Blue Eagle Hornpipe on an Orville Burns Jam Session recording that I got from a friend. I remember Bill Jones and Matt Wyatt to figure out the names of some of the tunes I didn’t know by playing them over the phone. This was one of them.

I also have a recording of this tune being played by Jimmy Don Bates and Matt Hartz. I don’t know who is playing fiddle and who is playing guitar, but it really rocks! Those guys were having a serious good time jamming together, which is one of the best things about fiddling. It gives you an instant connection to people you don’t know. I love my fiddle friends! 🙂

 

Learn to play Blue Eagle Hornpipe on fiddle here

 

BLUE EAGLE. Old‑Time, Breakdown. USA, Texas. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB. A regional Texas tune not well known in other parts of the South. Sources for notated versiosn: Lewis Franklin (Texas) [Phillips]; Gary Lee Moore (Seattle) [Silberberg]. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), 1994; pg. 30. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; pg. 13. County 707, Lewis Franklin ‑ “Texas Fiddle Favorites.”

Article by Vi Wickam / Fiddle Tune a Day, Fiddling, Videos / american fiddle tunes, Day, don bates, Eagle, fiddle, fiddle tune, lewis franklin, matt wyatt, recording, Silberberg 2 Comments

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Comments

  1. Michael Friedman says

    April 15, 2014 at 8:41 pm

    Lovely tune !

    Reply
  2. Vi Wickam says

    April 21, 2014 at 6:14 pm

    I really love the way Orville Burns played those breakdowns.

    Reply

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