"Wagoner" - Isham Monday - D# A# F C

Here's the eighteenth rendition of Isham Monday tunes, this one is the only C tune that Monday was recorded playing (as far as my knowledge goes).
Tuning is D# A# F C (GDAE relative)
Isham Monday (1879 - 1964) (pronounced Ice-Um) was a lifelong farmer that lived on Cloyd's Ridge Along the Cumberland River In Monroe County, Kentucky. Monday was considered "the best fiddler in the Tompkinsville area." He supplied music in peoples homes in the region from the time has was a teenager until shortly before World War II, a span of fifty years. Isham learned to play the fiddle at age ten, He played a very old, archaic style of fiddle, where he'd be tuned so low that he could play three strings at once, and his bowing always consisted of slurs, swings, a series of saw-strokes, long-bows and was characterized by vigorous bowing and a great deal of bow pressure. He was recorded In the late 1950's by folklorist Lynwood Montell, who grew up In Monroe County, along with fellow folklorists D.K. Wilgus and John Newport.
When he was recorded he was eighty years old and past his prime, but his settings show a spare and tasteful sense of melody laced with occasional, contrasting ornate flourishes. He marks the beat vigorously, emphasizing the down-beat more than most fiddlers from the upper south. He told John Newport that he knew more than a hundred tunes when he was married in 1906 (Elizabeth "Lizzie" Pruitt Monday, B. 1888), but at the time he was recorded he could start less than twenty. He played on his porch every night. "Oh, he lived for that," his son Carl told Burt Fientuch and Bruce Greene.
Here's a link to hear Isham Monday play this tune
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Here are links to Berea Archives, where you'll hear the entire Isham Monday recording sessions from 1959. Monday was visited twice.
First Recording Session:
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Second Recording Session:
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[@stepno]

I'm having great fun playing along with a banjo ukulele, which I don't have to retune and sometimes can clawhammer a little bit instead of just trying to follow or complement the rhythm of your bow. Thanks for "channeling" great old fiddlers! 🎉

[@bearshield7138]

Thank you
This brighten my day

[@オオガキカツノリ]

👍👍👍

[@LZ100-s4y]

Hieno. Kyllä olet ahkera tuottaja. Toivottavasti saat myös jotain kautta palkkaa työstäsi. Olet upea nuori soittaja. Kiitos.

[@jeffmeyer9319]

Ah, looking forward to summer time already :)