Posted by JanetB
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Size: 1,208kb, uploaded 6/28/2019 10:10:47 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 6/28/19, Kentucky fiddler Clyde Davenport (still alive and able to play in his 90's) played the banjo for a tune his father, Will, taught him. The source I found for Will Davenport's Tune (actually the title isn't known) is in an excellent DVD called Shades of Clyde. The key is F in the unusual tuning of fFGCD. I don't find many tunes hypnotic, but this one qualifies.
3 comments on “Will Davenport's Tune (TOTW)”
stratovarious520 Says:
Saturday, June 29, 2019 @8:47:04 PM
How does one set about navigating a tuning like that? That’s cool as can be! It (to me) had a kind of “Cumberland Gap” type feel. Regardless, top notch playing...but I would expect nothing less!
JanetB Says:
Saturday, June 29, 2019 @9:11:17 PM
Thanks, as always, Greg. You’re astute about the tuning sleuthing. I had four hints and they all helped.
rickhayes Says:
Sunday, June 30, 2019 @3:42:45 PM
Like that tune and tuning Janet; it is hypnotic.
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