Jonglement Catin, from Dave Lang

Here's another great Cajun tune, given to us by Dave Lang last Wednesday, March 4, along with Melanie Solenen on cajun accordion. It's "Jonglement Catin" loosely translated as "Think of Me Sometime (or not)." I've picked it up on YouTube (see link below) as "Jonglement A Moi (which my schoolhouse French translates just exactly as "Think of Me").

At SoundCloud, I've put up Dave's several recorded tracks of the song, divided into an "All Harmonies" and individual tracks for the various violin parts. Here's the link—
https://soundcloud.com/riskykayray/sets/jonglement-catin

The guitar part is done with chords D & A, starting with D. As is traditional with learning Cajun music, we'll just let you learn this by listening. So get out your guitar, turn on a fiddle track on SoundCloud, get going with those (as Chris Anderson called them), the "Ker-Chunks," and you'll hear where D switches to A.

And here's a YouTube of a young Jimmy Breaux with his step dad U.J. Meaux and the Happy Cajuns on the old Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler show, playing the tune. Check out that weird guitar laying on the table! (Be forewarned if you grab your guitar to play along; they've capo'ed it up a few).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcbHVz-rqKQ

I won't be with you 'all for next Tuesday. Have a great time, and I'll join you on St. Paddy's Day!

Karen

Little Gal'll Fool Me

These are the Roan Mountain Hilltoppers, an Old Time string band from NE Tennessee. From them, courtesy, of Johnny & Riley Calcago last Tuesday at RISK, we gained the tune "Little Gal'll Fool Me." Here's Riley & Johnny winging through: Riley first solo, then Johnny joins in on guitar, then Riley asks to do it again—"FASTER!"

https://soundcloud.com/riskykayray/lil-gal-will-fool-me

For the violins, here's the sheet music for the melody:

And here's the guitar chords:

Next week, Dave Lang and company will be back to bring us some music from Cajun country.   Eeeee-ha!

Roses in the Morning

Reilly & Johnny Calcago were back last Tuesday, February 3, 2015, to show us "Roses in the Morning." This is a traditional fiddle tune played by a Clyde Davenport; I looked him up and found he's an old Kentuckian, born 1921 and still alive, who plays fiddle and banjo. So I found a recording of him playing "Roses in the Morning," and here it is:

http://grooveshark.com/#!/search/song?q=Clyde+Davenport+Roses+in+the+morning

Here's a banjo version of the same song for Rowan and his aunt. (It loaded instantly at first try, then took forever later: apologies)
http://clawhammertuneoftheday.blogspot.com/2010/10/roses-in-morning.html

Here's Reilly and us playing at last week's RISK—
https://soundcloud.com/riskykayray/roses-in-the-morning

And to give you something to watch, here's a young lady from South Carolina, playing the same tune on her fiddle, backed up by a friend on guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDARVTw594g

Finally, here's our sheet music. The top is the rhythm guitar chords, and on bottom the melody line for the fiddles.