Laughing Boy is a classic old-time fiddle tune. And, it’s cross-tuned, which makes it all the more fun. I have heard Laughing Boy many times, but the recording I used to work it up tonight is a recording of Benny Thomasson playing it. Never let it be said that Benny was not well rounded in […]
Barlow Knife – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 244
Barlow Knife is a cool tune, and I hadn’t ever played it before Steve Taught it to me (at this gig.) It was a tune I had heard before, but not more than once or twice, and I thought it was cool enough to make it today’s fiddle tune a day. I think it’s an […]
Clarinet Polka – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 136
I never really play Clarinet Polka. I know the melody, and I have taught it to a student here or there, but I haven’t ever worked it up or played it publicly (before tonight.) It’s not that I don’t like it, or think it’s cool. I guess it has just sat there on the periphery […]