STORY: Back when Achy Breaky Heart ( a song that makes me gag too, Sorcha)was just getting over being a hit I was jamming with some pretty hard-core folkies at a festival when an old fiddler with a fantastic gritty sound joined us on a bunch of standards. Then he said, with all honesty, "Here's one for all the young folks in the gang" and launched into a raunchy version of ABH as a driving fiddle tune. Everybody just looked around to see who was going to retch first but after a few choruses we started to join in and it sounded fabulous. I mean it really did work as a fiddle tune. That has happened several times to me. The other tune I recall that happening on was "Never On A Sunday" from Zorba The Greek. It could very well be that most of our best fiddle tunes were once songs that everybody learned to hate.   MickyMan