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November 1, 2012

Tater Patch – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 300

Wow! The days here at the end of the year are clicking off fast. Hitting day 300 is a big milestone for me in this project.

It’s fitting to celebrate this milestone with Steve Eulberg, who has been with me throughout this project, and has been great to work with on our current CD project (to be released on December 14th.) Before recording this, Steve and I listened to all of the tracks of our CD and put together our final notes for the mixing engineer.

I hadn’t heard Tater Patch before today, but Steve had, so that’s good enough. Enjoy!

 

 

Tater Patch according to Fiddler’s Companion

TATER PATCH. Old‑Time, Breakdown. USA, North Carolina. A Mixolydian. AEae or Standard tuning. AAB (Brody): AABBB (Johnson, Phillips). A Blue Ridge Mountain regional dance piece. Mt. Airy, western North Carolina, fiddler Tommy Jarrell related to musician and folklorist Mike Seegar:

***

There was a fellow by the name of Ike Leonard…he was a working

in the potato patch and this tune come in his mind. And he just

throwed down what ever he was a doing and went to the house

and got his banjo and played it. It must have happened about

1910…before 1920. I got it through (his uncle) Charlie Barnett

Lowe…along in the ’20’s. Charlie Barnett’s brother married Ike

Leonard’s widow so I got the straight story to ‘The Tater Patch

Tune’…the way it was told to me now.

***

In The Portland Collection the tune is directly attributed to Jarrell’s frequent playing partner banjo player Charlie Lowe, with the same story (i.e. that the tune came to Charlie while he was out in the field digging potatoes and that he ran to the house, got out his banjo and played it). This latter attribution comes from Mt. Airy region fiddler Ernest East. Sources for notated versions: Ruthie Dornfeld (Seattle, Washington) [Phillips]; Paula Walters (Corvalis, Oregon) [Songer]. Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; pg. 273. Johnson (Kitchen Musician No. 2: Old-Timey Fiddle Tunes), 1982 (revised 1988 & 2003). Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 1, 1994; pg. 238. Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; pg. 192. County 778, Tommy Jarrell ‑ “Pickin’ on Tommy’s Porch” (1984). Rounder 0045, Highwoods String Band‑ “Dance All Night.”

Article by Vi Wickam / Fiddle Tune a Day, Fiddling, Videos / aeae, banjo, blue ridge mountain, fiddle, steve eulberg, tommy jarrell 4 Comments

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  1. Howard Lee Harkness says

    May 31, 2014 at 6:53 pm

    Should have switched sides. Looked like you almost poked Steve with the tip of the bow a couple of times. Plus, on the opposite sides, the projection of the instruments would have been more naturally towards each other.

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  2. Vi Wickam says

    June 25, 2014 at 8:20 pm

    True, but you assume that I didn't want to poke Steve in the eye. 😉

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  3. Michael Friedman says

    October 9, 2014 at 12:45 pm

    Fantastic musical performance !

    Reply
  4. Vi Wickam says

    November 1, 2014 at 6:07 pm

    Getting to play music with Steve Eulberg is always fantastic. 🙂

    Reply

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