{"id":2651,"date":"2012-06-21T09:32:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T09:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldtownschool.org\/connect\/fiddleclub\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2014-05-11T10:08:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T15:08:23","slug":"tune-of-the-week-for-june-18-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/2012\/06\/tune-of-the-week-for-june-18-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Tune of the Week for June 18, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Battle Ground week! That is, time for the Indiana Fiddlers Gathering<\/a> in lovely Battle Ground, Indiana, just a couple hours out of Chicago, just off interstate 65. This years festival will be the 40th. I missed the first four, but have only missed two since. Lots of folks look forward to reuniting for a weekend of tunes and friendship. Plus there are concerts on the stage, workshops under the trees and an old-time square dance on Saturday with music by the Bum Ditty Barn Dance Band.<\/p>\n

I think the year was 1979 when the Gathering was treated to the music of the Roan Mountain Hilltoppers, a family band from Tennessee. Their tunes were great. Their spirit infectious. And they hawked their most recent album in LP and 8-track tape formats! (Now available on the CD Down Home<\/a>.) Banjoists take note of the distinctive left-hand style in the picture below. The Easy Street String Band, an outfit from Bloomington, was inspired by a Hilltoppers original, and included it on their LP Money in Both Pockets. (Originally released on the Prairie Schooner label out of St. Louis, it is now available as a CD from Yodel A-Hee.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Bill<\/a>
\nBill & Joe Birchfield
\nof the Roan Mountain Hilltoppers
\nPhoto by Al Smitley
\n(click photo to enlarge)<\/td>\n		\"Easy
\nEasy Street String Band
\nOn the right is Frank Hall, who was the source for an earlier Tune of the Week<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Rattletrap<\/span><\/a> by the Roan Mountain Hilltoppers
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\n
\nRattletrap<\/span><\/a> by the Easy Street String Band
\n
\n
\nX:1
\nT:Rattletrap
\nM:C|
\nL:1\/8
\nS:Joe Birchfield & the Roan Mountain Hilltoppers
\nK:G
\nBc | d2c2 BcdB | e2c4 Bc | d2c2 B2G2 | ABA2 G2Bc |
\nd2c2 BcdB | e2c6 | g2=f2 d3B | ABA2 G2 ::
\n(3DEF | G2GD B,2B,D | +C2E2++CE++CE+ +^C2^E2++^C^E++^C^E+ | +C2E2++CE++CE+ D3D | +CE+D+C2E2+ D2EF |
\nG2GD B,2D2 | +C2E2++CE++CE+ +^C2^E2++^C^E++^C^E+ | +C2E2++CE++CE+ D3D | +CE+D+C2E2+ D2 :|<\/p>\n

Paul Tyler, convener<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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