Shove The Pig's Foot (a little closer to the fire) - Celtic Connections

Written by Bruce Molsky and recorded at Celtic Connections 2009, Glasgow , Scotland

Bruce Molsky - fiddle
Tim O'Brien - fiddle
Aly Bain - fiddle
John McCustker - fiddle
Jerry Douglas - dobro
Dirk Powell- banjo
Mike McGoldrick - flute
Phil Cunningham - piano accordion
Donald Shaw - piano
Russ Barenberg - guitar
John Doyle - guitar
Todd Parks - bass
Pat McInerney - percussion
James McIntosh - drums

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Music

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• Celtc
• Connections
• Glasgow
• Scotland
• Aly
• Bain
• Jerry
• Douglas
• dobro
• Bruce
• Molsky
• John
• McCustker
• Dirk
• Powell
• banjo
• Mike
• McGoldrick
• flute
• Phil
• Cunningham
• piano
• accordion
• Doyle
• Todd
• Parks
• James
• McIntosh
• Tim
• O'Brien
• Russ
• Barenberg
• Donal
• Shaw
• Pat
• McInerney

[annlou68]

Love your spunky band; learning to play this tune on the mountain dulcimer (play along with you in key of G)! Thanks for posting!

[robespierrelucky]

a "pigs foot" is a blacksmithing term, thats what's being shoved into the fire.

[capnshort]

Let's give Marcus Martin a little credit please!!! He did not write it, but his version is where most OLD-TIME fiddlers get this song from. Marcus Martin was a fiddle/banjo player from North Carolina and recorded in the late 50s and early 60s. Happy Hollow and Booth were also tunes we fiddle players reference him for. No...Bruce didn't write it, nor could he have written it.

[nexothesmodrastica]

One of my favorite tunes. My contradance band plays it at every dance, after the final waltz, as the dancers are leaving the hall.

[17Hongo]

Learned this from Bruce in Aberdeen, at a fiddle festival! he himself claims he didn't write it -don't remember who he said did.

[ArkRed1]

Molsky must be about two hundred years old if he wrote this song, because, "Shove The Pig's Foot" is an old slave dance tune. In some areas it's known as "Sweet Sally Daisy".

[ouichtan]

Just played thiat song tonight with my band...it was great fun and everyone was dancing. Love that tune, thanks for posting, this amazing version

[Otaku155]

@melodeon3 then it should say he arranged it, not that he wrote it.

[Lucarius1]

@Otaku155

The song is a traditional arr. by Bruce Molsky in this case.

[Lucarius1]

I love that song. Not only the title is funny, the whole song is seething with joy and happiness.