Wild Bill Jones | Left Hand
Added 2018-04-14 23:22:17 +0000 UTC... and here's the left hand.
eBEAB (relative gDGCD, a.k.a. "Sawmill" or "Pretty Polly" tuning)
Comments
Tuning on the PDF isn't right, that B needs to be a C...sounded awful. Fun tune!
8Banjos
2022-03-18 23:23:21 +0000 UTCThank you very much. I’ve actually gone back and I’ve noticed on most of your performances you include the lyrics so for songs like muskrat, ida red, going up north, and so on I grabbed them from there.
Ben Gantt
2020-08-09 18:05:15 +0000 UTCYou can find George Gibson's lyrics here: http://banjohistory.com/article/detail/11_last_possum_up_tthe_tree_song_lyrics
Clifton Hicks
2020-08-09 11:59:56 +0000 UTCWhere can we find lyrics to this ? I’ve found some online but none of the rendition you do
Ben Gantt
2020-08-09 02:49:17 +0000 UTCOh man. Those sawmill string bends, so cool.
Jake Tolbert
2018-04-23 18:06:53 +0000 UTCNow I am going to look up Fred McDowell. I work at music festivals in the summer and this summer I will get to see Bela Fleck again. I hate to say it, but I find it boring, and don't get me wrong I can see why you'd be into it. Anywho, long story to say I love the flowing style that, I will use the word again, it just seems natural.
John F. Cooke
2018-04-20 15:00:09 +0000 UTCThanks, John. I have been playing that song, pretty much the same way, for almost twenty years. Hence the lack of effort! As a child I played it much more harshly and syncopated--I wanted to sound like Fred McDowell or something.
Clifton Hicks
2018-04-20 13:58:18 +0000 UTCLike most art, part of the beauty is because it seems so easy, or natural. It just flows out. That was beautiful.
John F. Cooke
2018-04-20 13:38:57 +0000 UTC
