From my cd Ghost Town. Jim Speros on organ. Many others in the choir.

Tune I wrote a while ago and recorded with Gabe Witcher on fiddle.

2 irish reels :

The man with the money

Jimmy's return

Lay down boys, take a little nap...

Okay, here's the second version of New Five Cents, which I'm calling 'Ruffled Drawers' (New Five Cents) to distinguish it (for convenience) from the bluegrassy version recorded prior to this. I also added bass notes to distinguish this (Ruffled Drawers) from the previous tune (New Five Cents). Here the melody in the B-Part keeps going back to the low D-note (tonic), which exerts a strong gravitational force on the melodic contour. Again, the titles are interchangeable, so don't get hung up on titles. (A lesson that I've learned from Irish music: a tune like 'Toss the Feathers' can mean many different tunes, same as 'Munster Buttermilk', and on and on. Titles don't reveal how a melody actually goes, and there can be variants or branches of a melody, or entirely different melodies using the same title, or the same melody using different titles.)

Here is a straightforward setting using Double D tuning (Double C-Capo II) for 'New Five Cents', the Old Time reel that goes under interchangeable titles. The titles create confusion since there are two main branches in Old Time and further regional, local and bluegrass variants. The A Part is pretty close in most versions with one noticeable variation – either dipping down (as I do here) to an A-note or rising up to F# in the second and sixth measures. This variation is found in both Old Time and Bluegrass versions and a G chord is sometimes played in these spots. It’s in the B Part (fifth and sixth measures) where the melodic contour branches in one of two directions – either dipping down from the fifth (A) to the tonic (D)/D chord, or, as Paul Warren played it (New Five Cents), using a G-note double-stop with a B-note)/G chord, then up to an A-note/A chord (as I do here) and moving upwards happily in major second intervals. Many, but not all, Old Time versions (‘New Five Cents’, ‘Ruffled Drawers’ or ‘Buffalo Nickel’) tend to keep dipping down to the low D-note/D chord and use fewer chords than Bluegrass versions which are based on Paul Warren’s version.

http://www.wirz.de/music/otisbfrm.htm

From The Otis Brothers' 2nd Album "Stick To The Promise"

Moses Hoe The Corn (Fiddle Tune) © Pat Conte 1983;

Bob Guida plays guitar.

I wrote this song dedicated to the Australian Soldiers in WW1. But relates to all soldiers past and present.

deux reels tirés de O'Neil's book

the jolly seven and how the money goes