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Size: 956kb, uploaded 2/25/2009 5:35:42 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen
Here's another oldie I got from Dad and the gang. I think it was recorded by a fiddle-string band in Mississippi in the 1920's, and some others later. Ustabe, that all the fiddlers, mandolin and guitar pickers played this one. I use the 1934 000-18 for the lead, and a 1940's Kay archtop for the backup.
3 comments on “Carroll County Blues”
Tom Smith Says:
Thursday, February 26, 2009 @2:50:58 AM
Great job on a great tune.
[From http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/CAR_CASU.htm]
The original melody was composed by fiddler Will Narmour (1889-1961) and was named for his home county, Carroll County, north-central Mississippi. Narmour recorded it with a man named Shell (Sherril) Smith, and it was Smith's wife who recalled that Narmour may have heard the tune either being whistled by a black farmer (according to David Freeman), or hummed by a black field hand (remembers Henry Young). This farmer claimed authorship and called the tune Carroll County Blues. Narmour and Smith then worked the tune out, presumably meaning that they arranged it for fiddle and guitar. Narmour is known to have been friendly with black bluesman Mississippi John Hurt, who lived in nearby Avalon. It has also been maintained, ostensibly by folks in Avalon, that Narmours mentor, Gene Clardy, an older local fiddler, was the one who composed Carroll County Blues.
d18picker Says:
Thursday, February 26, 2009 @5:41:59 AM
Great old time pickin, a listening pleasure
musekatcher Says:
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 @11:20:02 AM
Ya know, after re-listening, the timing seems off in the first round. I have had some odd things happen with my H4 and the metronome not syncing on the second track. Well, I can straighten that out when the real studios start calling!
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