One of the caroling songs we do every year.

A very old hymn widely sung today.

1st track little sadie

off the new cd

Frosty Morn, my current favorite song in Sawmill tuning - gDGCB

Thanks Laurence for this great addition. Honored to collaborate with you!

One of my favorite songs ever gets even better!

This old Scottish love song, based on William Douglas's poem in around 1700, was also the first performance attempt of Lotta Crabtree (1847 - 1923). Known now as the Shirley Temple of the 19th century, Lotta walked onto a school stage in San Francisco as a wee little girl under six years old. She burst into tears when trying to sing Annie Laurie and ran off stage. So, stage fright is certainly nothing new! She got over it and became a millionaire and successful Broadway performer, leaving her millions to charity in the 1920's.

Dom Flemmons plays Kerr's Nego Jig on the Carolina Chocolate Drops album "Leaving Eden". Dom uses a gourd banjo. I was inspired to learn this tune on my new gourd banjo. My banjo was built by Les Taylor, a local luthier who works out of his house. I provided the gourd and a banjo kit and he turned it into a work of art.

I chose the following tuning for this piece: E - A - D - G - A

The melody's range seems to fit the left hand very comfortably in this tuning.

Please let me know what you think of this tune.

Henry Reed learned these from the Civil War fifer Quince Dillon. The two tunes are both in Am and one leads easily to the other in a medley.

My arrangement of an old evergreen written by Henry Clay Work. Double C tuning, key of C. Warts and all.