Dixie Hoedown

[AlanN]

Have many versions of this in the bucket, like Grisman twin in A chord on an old Eric Thompson guitar record, plus Jesse of course.

Right now, trying out Stuart Duncan lines, as he recorded it on mando(!) on an album called Pre-Sequel. He does some interesting things, like touching on diminished passages over the G chord. This tune is great because it has the fairly well-set A part, then the B part is more open to interpretation, plus it has that lovely chord progression.

[Phillip Tigue]

Is that the one from the Peters book? I've never heard the piece, so your talk of interpretation, diminished movement, and chord progression has gotten me very interested!

[AlanN]

Yessir.

[Phillip Tigue]

Is there a clip of that online anywhere that you know of?

[Jack Roberts]

The "Puff, the magic dragon" version is pretty popular around these hare parts.

[AlanN]

Well now, just humming that Puff song - you are most definitely right, it does fit like a glove...dang.

[Amandalyn]

What is the "Puff, Dragon' version?

[Skip Kelley]

Emory Lester had a cool version out on one of his earlier recordings. I think it was on his Jerusalem Ridge album.