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Two more tunes learned from the playing of Marcus Martin. True jigs (in 6/8) are extinct in southern oldtime music these days, but all the old-timers played a few. This first one seems like it might have originated as a song, but we don’t know its true name. Snowbird resembles the Irish reel Paddy on the Turnpike and was once played by many fiddlers in the Blue Ridge Mountain region. The aforementioned Bill Hensley claimed it was another of Junaluska’s tunes, named for his mountain community of Snowbird, NC, where hundreds of Cherokee managed to avoid removal from the homeland of their ancestors during the Trail of Tears in 1838. Incidentally, Snowbird (“Dudi”) was what the Cherokee called the Eagle, so as not to offend it by using its true name. Martin is thought to have gotten this particular setting of the tune from J.D. Harris (b. 1868), originally of Flag Pond, TN, whose impeccable style and even-then-archaic repertoire influenced a generation of area musicians in the early 1900s.

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from Old World Music of the Southern Appalachians, released November 13, 2018
Jason- fiddle (GDAE); Rob- guitar

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Hog-eyed Man is an acoustic oldtime duo comprised of Jason Cade (fiddle) & Rob McMaken (lap dulcimer, mando, guitar). Drawing primarily on the archaic tunes and pre-radio aesthetics of Southern Appalachia, the duo has forged a compelling and authentic style of traditional music, both reflecting deep respect for the past masters and carrying the musical conversation forward to the present era. ... more

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