Thought I would start a stream here and see how many tunes we can list that we identify with Doc. At this year's folk fest, we will have some time to play dances at the hall. I'd like to get a good list of tunes that we can use. Doc will be there to call, play, or just hang out. But wouldn't it be great if we played all of Doc's "greatest hits?"
Many of these old classics may not sound as cool as the newest, hippest, obscurest tunes playing on today's old time tune circuit, but they were fresh and exciting to me, when Doc would just say, "This one's in D" and rip into one. I played banjo for many years, and would just try to hang on and catch the changes and maybe some of the melody, just soaking it up, thrilled to be playing with a real fiddler. He was the real thing. He was the first fiddler I ever played with.
OK. I don't think I will get very far with this list. I will need some help. But I'll start with the D tunes, and hopefully the rest of you will chime in. These are tunes I learned from Doc.
Soldier's Joy
Arkansas Traveller
Mississippi Sawyer
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
Eighth of January
Liberty
Chinese Breakdown
Ragtime Annie
Fisher's Hornpipe
Angeline the Baker
Sugar Hill
Old Molly Hare
Danny
