All of Me is one of my favorite crooner tunes. I even sing it sometimes – but not this time. I need an accompanist to really do it justice. When I play a tune like All of Me, I really try to sing it through my fiddle. The notes to the melody aren’t that hard, […]
Hotfoot – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 167
I don’t have a tone of history with Hotfoot. I have a few memories. I remember hearing some of my friends play it at Weiser when I was a teenager, and I remember Texas Shorty (Jim Chancellor) play a great version of Hotfoot at the Grand Lake National Fiddle Contest one year. I learned Hotfoot […]
Red Skinned Gal – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 162
Red Skinned Gal is a fun and swingy tune (at least the way I play it.) I originally learned the melody from Tony Ludiker, but there is some Orville Burns in my arrangement as well. Red Skinned Gal is a variation based on the tune “There’s a Brown Skinned Gal Down The Road Somewhere,” which […]
Forester’s Hornpipe – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 100
It’s day 100 and the Fiddle Tune for today is Forester’s Hornpipe. I don’t have any fancy story for it. It’s just the tune I felt like playing to day. Forester’s is a tune out of Cole’s 1000 fiddle tunes, and I think it has a nice melody. Enjoy. Foresters Hornpipe according to […]
Uncle Herman’s Hornpipe
I learned this tune from Eric Levine when I was just a kid. He called it Herman’s Hornpipe. And it looks like there are a couple of other names for it too. I can see how Herman could become Hiram or vice versa, but how do you get Herman out of Miss Supertest’s Victory? That’s […]
Bill Sullivan’s Polka – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 77
Bill Sullivan’s Polka (AKA Dennis Murphy’s Polka) is a tune I learned from Eric LeVine a long long time ago, but I hadn’t played it probably since junior high when Steve Eulberg reintroduced me to it. The A Part of Bill Sullivan’s Polka is pretty distinctive melodically, and the B Part reminds me of Boil […]
Wilson’s Hornipipe – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 38
Wilson’s Hornpipe is a fun Old-Timey tune that I learned from Bob Zuellig at the Wednesday Night Avo’s Jam a while back. I really enjoy playing the high harmony to it, which you will hear me play in this recording. It looks like the oldest known recording of this was made by Clark Kessinger, who […]
Cincinnati Hornpipe – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 36
When I was 15, I had an opportunity to study fiddling with Dale Morris. It was my first time travelling on my own, first time to fly on an airplane, and Texas was a foreign land. Everybody drove Lincolns, Cadillacs, or pickup trucks, and everybody called each other “hun”. I learned a lot from Dale […]