I've enjoyed this one so much I decided to learn it in the last two days. My playing is a bit different esp. in the A part (John Hartford said one's style is based upon limitations, and, if that's true, then boy I have lots of style!).
Anyway, there aren't many fiddlers here in the Upper Peninsula. But I can say this: Me, my daughter, and Fiddlin' Phil May have brought these great WV tunes up here. We are the only fiddlers in the county -- if not across the region -- who play WV tunes.
It wouldn't take much for there to be more fiddlers playing Phoebe Ice in the UP than WV. The dulcimer players that have learned this tune (and some other nearly extinct tunes) from Patty Looman have pretty much kept it alive here.
Joe is great. He brought a couple of his homemade violins with carved heads to show me that day and played them for me out by his truck. I'll try to post that soon.
Oh, I like this tune a lot! I think I'll have to work on it. Thanks, and tell Joe thank you. Also, ask him if there are any other old tunes nobody else plays anymore that he knows and can share with us.
Hi Gretsch'n. I'm glad you came by; it reminded me that I had something in the works with you in mind that I forgot about when I was at Elmer Rich's this weekend.
I've enjoyed this one so much I decided to learn it in the last two days. My playing is a bit different esp. in the A part (John Hartford said one's style is based upon limitations, and, if that's true, then boy I have lots of style!).
Anyway, there aren't many fiddlers here in the Upper Peninsula. But I can say this: Me, my daughter, and Fiddlin' Phil May have brought these great WV tunes up here. We are the only fiddlers in the county -- if not across the region -- who play WV tunes.
ottlakerambler 3 years ago
It wouldn't take much for there to be more fiddlers playing Phoebe Ice in the UP than WV. The dulcimer players that have learned this tune (and some other nearly extinct tunes) from Patty Looman have pretty much kept it alive here.
YewPiney 3 years ago
Unbelievable!!!
ottlakerambler 3 years ago
Joe is great. He brought a couple of his homemade violins with carved heads to show me that day and played them for me out by his truck. I'll try to post that soon.
YewPiney 3 years ago
Yew-
can you get me Joe's #?
I am also a Coe, from Nicholas County.
I'd like to know who Joe's ancestors are.
NotSoBigScioty 3 years ago
My replies to this keep getting thrown out, so I must be including something not allowed. Send me a message though my channel.
YewPiney 3 years ago
Oh, I like this tune a lot! I think I'll have to work on it. Thanks, and tell Joe thank you. Also, ask him if there are any other old tunes nobody else plays anymore that he knows and can share with us.
GreenSpeakDotOrg 3 years ago
BJ, I recorded a couple of tunes last weekend. I've been wanting to get some of these down for quite a while.
Do you know the tune "Moon Behind the Hill" that Melvin Wine played? And his story about learning it? It ties in with this.
YewPiney 3 years ago
No, I don't, but I'd love to hear it and the story. Jane might has it in her field recordings of Melvin.
GreenSpeakDotOrg 3 years ago
Great fiddlin!
Gretsch'n
BluegrassForte 3 years ago
Hi Gretsch'n. I'm glad you came by; it reminded me that I had something in the works with you in mind that I forgot about when I was at Elmer Rich's this weekend.
YewPiney 3 years ago