Samuel Bayard collected this tune from fiddler and fifer Isaac Newton Morris. It's tune #45 in his book Dance to the Fiddle and March to the Fife. I learned it from the excellent recording by Mark Tamsula and Richard Withers in their CD Up in the Batten House. It's one of these tunes where the melody is embedded within some wandering passages. I'm playing in SRB tuning with tab in the BHO archive.

Just fooling around with the voice memo recorder on my IPhone to see if I could get from there to here. Played on WL-250 in double C as I recall, outside on the patio swing.

"Meg Gray" from the fiddle playing of George Hawkins. Played by Bob Lanham on a Vega Tubaphone banjo.

For the Tune of the Week, 4-11-14. I listened to Erynn Marshall's fiddling for this version. As I was learning this old-time tune my pretty little cat, Louie--black with a white tuxedo, was amusing me with his hunting antics.

Scott Klamm making my banjo sound good.

'Boys them buzzards are flying' is an old time style tune, but a modern composition by Gary Harrison. i tried to learn this tune, but something just wouldn't fall into place. the piece has strange timing and it doesn't really resolve, but keeps you up in the air...sort of like buzzards circling. it's a great tune but didn't make sense to me and i wound up borrowing the hook or tag line and changing it to this...

For the Tune of the Week, 3/21/14 from the fiddling of George Mert Reeves. This recording may be found on the Slippery Hill website on a section I looked at less often. I perceive another treasure chest has been discovered!

For Tune of the Week, 3/14/14, from the fiddling of Lotus Dickey, played on a Gold Tone cello banjo tuned dADF#A. The tune was apparently first played on a fife and later by fiddlers. The history of an Oyster River Massacre in present-day Durham, New Hampshire goes back to the 1690's.

From Adam Hurt's piano version, inspired by Kentucky fiddler John Salyer whose many tunes are always worth learning. I've also enjoyed playing my Gold Tone cello banjo with all nylon strings. Hope you enjoy, too.