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Thread #119058 Message #2579339
Posted By: Goose Gander
02-Mar-09 - 11:54 AM
Thread Name: Singer & fiddler - how to arrange?
Subject: RE: Singer & fiddler - how to arrange?
I was just listening to Uncle Charlie Osbourne (June Appal Recordings), who fiddles and sings on several tracks. Lots of other fiddlers have done the same - sometimes songs like Old Joe Clark, sometimes ballads like Omie Wise. Erynn Marshall, a fine fiddler in her own right, wrote extensively about the playing of song airs on fiddles in Music in the Air Somewhere (West Virginia University Press, 2007). Usually, as I have heard it done, the fiddle and the voice accompany each other in unison rather than harmony.