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Thread #140939 Message #3241161
Posted By: GUEST,matt milton
19-Oct-11 - 05:27 AM
Thread Name: Walk Arounds (old-time/minstrel) query
Subject: RE: Walk Arounds (old-time/minstrel) query
Yes, the tune's great. It's not very typical of the others in the book though, it's a lot more bluesy (the first part reminds me very much of New Orleans-style funeral band music, whereas the other tunes are much less swinging, more hoedown-ish).
All of the Walk Arounds featured in the Ryan's book (there's only 7 of them) are viewable on that same website:
"Brudder Bones" is apparently from a 19th Century collection compiled by a fiddler called Elias Howe. I notice that www.archive.org has a lot of Howe's books in PDF form, so I might see if I can track down the original book it comes from, where there might be more of its quirky kind.