Great tune! I learned it from the Canote brothers on mossyroof.

Maya provided a simple banjo tab.

The one thing I've never been able to figure out is: where the heck is Anaky??

I lived in Iowa for a little while. There's a town there called Ankeny, but that's the closest I could find

My wife Maxine Gerber and I have been playing this tune for some years. Maxine first heard it at Clifftop in a session with our friends Barry Cooper and Paul Tooley and a few other folks. As has been Max’s custom for some years, she searched for a source recording and included it in a collection called (in this case) “Greatest Hits of Summer 2007” to be distributed to friends who might be likely to learn some of the tunes. Among others, Greg and Jere Canote got it from us, and it’s quite likely that Jim and Joyce Cauthen did as well. One mystery is who the fiddler is on the recording she found back then; we thought it was Gusty Wallace, but it might have been Bruce Greene. Whoever it was played it essentially the way you heard it, but as you say, the start of the B part is phrased a little differently. Maxine says she’ll try to clear that up with Bruce Greene soon, and I’ll try to post whatever, if anything, she finds out from Bruce. Great TOTW choice!

As Brendan says, great choice, Porter.  You played it more fancy than I do, but for two days' working on it, I'm satisfied with my take today.  Your tab and playing are in a neat tuning I wouldn't have thought of to use, but it plays out of G nicely, especially coming down the neck for the "Waysnesboro" measure of the B part.  Pat's take on it is nice, too, and thank you, Pat, for including Myra's tab. It would be interesting to hear the version Maxine passed around.  The Canote Brothers are a pleasure to hear, as always, and their B part was tempting to include.

This arrangement is out of open G tuning from the Gusty Wallace recording.  The B part tab shows the five measures repeated, which is what makes the that a "funny little" part, as you put it, Porter.

Mystery solved: my wife Maxine sent a query to Bruce Greene, accompanied by two recordings of the tune: the one on the Slippery Hill site and the one we learned it from years ago, which had been (mis)labeled as being Gusty Wallace.

Max’s note to Bruce Greene:
“I have two recordings of Come Along Boys And Let's Go To Anaky, both labeled as being played by Gusty Wallace. They're pretty different, but maybe he just played them differently at different times. Or maybe one isn't really him. See what you think.”

Bruce’s reply (referring to the second recording mentioned above):
“Ha! The second one is me. I fooled around with it quite a bit, I see.”

So Bruce’s version is the one which got widely spread around, by us and others! As it happens, I like Bruce’s version better, even though he’s the one who got the tune from Gusty Wallace originally. That’s the “folk process”, and ‘twas ever thus! So play it whichever way you like it.

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Originally posted by banjukebox

Great tune! I learned it from the Canote brothers on mossyroof.

Maya provided a simple banjo tab.

The one thing I've never been able to figure out is: where the heck is Anaky??

I lived in Iowa for a little while. There's a town there called Ankeny, but that's the closest I could find

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I was wondering about that myself! I'm thinking it's about a place now called Anaka or something, having underwent the same sort of vowel shift as Appalachia/ Apalachee. 

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Originally posted by BrendanD

Mystery solved: my wife Maxine sent a query to Bruce Greene, accompanied by two recordings of the tune: the one on the Slippery Hill site and the one we learned it from years ago, which had been (mis)labeled as being Gusty Wallace.

Max’s note to Bruce Greene:
“I have two recordings of Come Along Boys And Let's Go To Anaky, both labeled as being played by Gusty Wallace. They're pretty different, but maybe he just played them differently at different times. Or maybe one isn't really him. See what you think.”

Bruce’s reply (referring to the second recording mentioned above):
“Ha! The second one is me. I fooled around with it quite a bit, I see.”

So Bruce’s version is the one which got widely spread around, by us and others! As it happens, I like Bruce’s version better, even though he’s the one who got the tune from Gusty Wallace originally. That’s the “folk process”, and ‘twas ever thus! So play it whichever way you like it.

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I'm glad to know this! I always learn so much every time I do one of these TOTW's, thanks for the info and y’all’s work tracking it down!

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Originally posted by JanetB

As Brendan says, great choice, Porter.  You played it more fancy than I do, but for two days' working on it, I'm satisfied with my take today.  Your tab and playing are in a neat tuning I wouldn't have thought of to use, but it plays out of G nicely, especially coming down the neck for the "Waysnesboro" measure of the B part.  Pat's take on it is nice, too, and thank you, Pat, for including Myra's tab. It would be interesting to hear the version Maxine passed around.  The Canote Brothers are a pleasure to hear, as always, and their B part was tempting to include.

This arrangement is out of open G tuning from the Gusty Wallace recording.  The B part tab shows the five measures repeated, which is what makes the that a "funny little" part, as you put it, Porter.

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Two days seems like it was plenty — it sounds great! 

What's so much fun about Clawhammer is that you can just pop any chord you want to for Clawhammer.....it's the people's music for sure .....HA Jack    'course if the Guitar player already knows the right chords I guess that would help others learn these ancient tunes. My students object to no chords being present in most Claw tunes...very precious music indeed. I've been playing Claw my entire life and always give the student a clue by adding those dreaded chords. HA HA.....J   pps. I remember the late Steve Arkin always insisting on chords to assist the melody but the current Claw gang--get them dang chords outta there...

Why even the Great Don Borchelt puts chords in every tab he's ever produced....although I'm not sure he's in my Chord camp these days....so funny....jb

Thanks for the clarification, Brendan.  You're awesome!  So is Bruce Greene.  I have several of his CDs, but this week's tune isn't on them.

Jack, here are tab chords for whoever they may help.  The D vs. D7 chord is a matter of preference, IMO.  The tab is based on the Slippery Hill link of Gusty Wallace.

I looked up two other TOTWs with Gusty Wallace tunes: Bound to Have a Little Fun and Old Bob, where Lyle K. gave us bio info on him.

Hi Janet,
Yes, there is a chord God. I knew it.....Thanks so much and do you mind if I put your tab into Tabledit?.....my very best....Jack