Quebecois fiddle tune from the playing of Louis Boudreault. Tune Of The Week 5/11/2021

A cover of the the MTV Unplugged concert. I was a kid the first time I saw this performance and it just blew me away as the epitome of cool.

This is a beautiful original tune by Boone, NC son Pete Washburn. This was recorded in March 2011 at (now defunct) band practice. The lineup is: Me (on my custom top-tension banjo), Shane Lail on guitar, Keith Cole on upright bass, David Heavner on mandolin, and George Giddons on fiddle. At the time, Shane and George were members of the Rodney Dillard Band.

Here is a mid-1950s recording of Earl Scruggs backing up the fiddle on Blackberry Blossom.

Based on the version by Jon Wilkes

Calvin Cole, recorded by the Library of Congress in the 1930's, played banjo for Peter Hoover in the 1960's and a CD was released with 37 cuts. It was said that in his 80's, Calvin was still dancing at the local Fancy Gap dances like he was a teenager. And his banjo speed on Western Country was twice mine!

Multitrack recording in 6 tracks: Muted banjo, guitar, bass (Michael Allen marimbula), fiddle, unmuted banjo, "clappers." The open back banjo is a Pisgah Rambler Special "foam-muted" on one track and and unmuted on another, both tuned to G tuning. Fiddle is a cheaper Hermann Luger model cross-tuned to GDGD.