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Double D tuning. Played on new 11" open back with skin head

John "Dick" Summers was a prolific playing fiddler from Indiana, born before 1900. This week's Tune of the Week features one of his tunes, offered by Carl Baron who played it in the 1970's with the folk who actually recorded Summers. It's a happy beauty of a tune -- Lowery's Quadrille -- perhaps for dancing way back when.

Banjo - aDAde

Recorded for TOTW 10-22-2021, the day before uploading.

Banjo - aDAde

Version I recorded in 2000 for my self produced CD "Banjo Stuff".

Adapted from the playing of Will Keys. Double C Tuning.

Elizabeth Cotten learned this tune in 1910 from a man aged about 50. She added the words.

An old church song from the playing of Elizabeth Cotten. I try to stay fairly close to her simple up-picking style, though, being left-handed, she did not use the thumb string.

I made some noise when turning off the recording.

Pete Steele's Harlan County Farewell Tune/Rambling Hobo, gEADE tuned down a couple steps