Your favorite fiddle tune

**manicmando** · May-13-2008, 8:54pm

if you could chose your favorite fiddle tune whether you can play it or not what would it be? no matter the genre

**catmandu2** · May-13-2008, 9:18pm

My favorite for the past two years has been the medley found on (I think a Dirk Powell CD) played by Tim O'Brien: Mountain Air/Washington's March/Bonaparte's Retreat. It's great on fiddle, but I also play it on mandos and hammered dulcimer.

**jim_n_virginia** · May-13-2008, 9:18pm

My favorite but probably over played is Whiskey Before Breakfast because I have worked out 4 different variations of the tune.

I like playing Jerusalem Ridge too if there is a good fiddler around.

**JGWoods** · May-13-2008, 9:22pm

Recently- Hell Among the Yearlings.

**Stephanie Reiser** · May-13-2008, 9:24pm

Angeline The Baker.

**Mike Snyder** · May-13-2008, 9:29pm

Tom and Jerry. I haven't tackled learning it yet. Soon, soon.

**Jack Roberts** · May-13-2008, 9:56pm

Fishers hornpipe. #It doesn't get any better. ##2 is Whiskey before breakfast. Jim, it's overplayed for a reason: it's a rootin-tootin' lotta fun to play!#Least favorite is President Garfield's hornpipe. #Never can get the hang of it.

**JEStanek** · May-13-2008, 10:08pm

Elzic's Farewell.

Jamie

**Austin Koerner** · May-13-2008, 10:54pm

the ones I play most are whiskey before breakfast, and red haired boy, but I don't know many.

**lespaul_79** · May-13-2008, 11:03pm

Salt Creek is fun. Shenandoah Valley Breakdown rocks. Love the simplicity of Back Up and Push and Panhandle Country.

**Bill Halsey** · May-13-2008, 11:04pm

We used to open our (5-pc BG band) show with Whisky Before Bkfst, with a mando/fiddle-only harmony duet stuck right in the middle. Way too much fun.

**Albert Whiting** · May-13-2008, 11:33pm

I really like Temperance Reel. Big Sciota is another of my favs. I just about forgot, Cattle in the Cane!

**mandoboy07** · May-13-2008, 11:40pm

Well I 2nd Temperance Reel, Wisky B.B.and Lost Indian.

**Ivan Kelsall** · May-14-2008, 2:42am

I know that it's NOT the right answer ie. a single favourite,but ANY of Bill Monroe's
twin fiddle tunes really floats my boat. I especially love 'Goldrush' or 'Stoney Lonesome'. My dream is to play in a band with twin fiddles - some hope that i'd find ONE
fiddle player over here let alone two,
Saska

**Stephanie Reiser** · May-14-2008, 5:30am

Another one I arranged, though not strictly a fiddle tune, is when I play Red Haired Boy on the lower three strings, a whole fifth below normal. Then I play the "B" part once, then play the "B" part a second time raising it a fifth up to the E strings, which then places the tune in the key of A, and then just start in with Brilliancy. IN effect I make a medley of the two.

**Bruce Evans** · May-14-2008, 5:52am

Whiskey
Soldier's
Liberty
Happy Birthday
(Just kidding)

**Gutbucket** · May-14-2008, 6:28am

Coo-Coo's Nest, Big Sciota, and Old Dangerfield, although I'm not sure this can be considered a fiddle tune.

**barefoot** · May-14-2008, 6:40am

Some of my favorites:

Temperence Reel
Girl I left behind me
Old Mother Flannigan
Year of Jubilo
Cuckoo's Nest
Flowers of Edinburgh
Salt Creek
Hamish the Carpenter
Whiskey
Angeline the Baker

**Kevin Briggs** · May-14-2008, 7:06am

It changes all of the time. Right now I'm really liking "Dixie Hoedown."

Runner Up:
"St. Anne's Reel"

**sgarrity** · May-14-2008, 7:21am

Just one? Nearly impossible.....I like WBB at roughly 90mph, Old Joe Clark because I know lots of varistions on it, Jerusalem Ridge which I think is Monroe's fiddle masterpiece and Big Sciota both the BG version and the old-time version

**fatt-dad** · May-14-2008, 7:36am

I'm with Shaun - hard to pick just one and I seem to know a few dozen or so . . .

I do like to play, "Hawks and Eagles" though.

f-d

**tree** · May-14-2008, 7:40am

For me it's a tie between Soldiers Joy and Greencastle Hornpipe.

**bones12** · May-14-2008, 7:41am

Walk Along John to Kansas and Rocky Pallet (that is two).There are a thousand more. Doug in Vermont

**mdlorenz** · May-14-2008, 7:42am

devil went down to georgia?

**MT_player** · May-14-2008, 7:44am

Any fiddle tune that uses a bVII major chord (like G maj in the key of A maj). I don't know what it is about that chord change but it gives me chills.