Here’s Mike’s version
Very clean playing at considerable speed there, Mike. I can't warm to the tune yet, but I enjoyed your playing very much.
I am not able to record right now but I did this one a little while ago. Fun tune!
Two great versions there guys, thanks, I really like this tune. Now that’s another one on the to-do list. Also knowing that it’s crooked to start with helps to understand the melodic phrases. It would be a good dance tune, a rave maybe. The slow versions sound pretty cool too. The dots and some more info, not originally religious they say: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation..._Meeting_House This is the recording by the man who apparently made the tune popular. https://youtu.be/x0RYzzZ-nc4
Here's my adaptation, which is a gloss on the notation, above, and the early '30s recording, which I assume the extremely crooked transcript is from, though I didn't compare them. The musicologist who went looking for this fiddler (can't remember the name) found in him Kentucky, in jail for public intoxication. He bailed him out to record him, and had to buy him a pint of whiskey to "sober him up enough to play." This is what came out of the fiddle, which also had to be tracked down before recording. My guess is the tune, in sober moments, is AABBCC. The G#s in the C part of the ur transcript will just annoy anybody hearing you play it. I recommend rationalizing those to G naturals. https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1Q...1Sj8Dd5DFel-ia
Your recordings are so different but both great. Thanks for the history, Mike. Nice to hear from you, Robert. I hope you are recovering (from whatever it was – no need to explain here). Good to know you are around!
