Transcribed from Bill Christopherson's playing with the The Lazy Aces String Band on their classic 1986 cassette album "Still Lazy After All These Years." I've done a bit of web searching, and haven't found any evidence of this fabulous album being reissued. Pity. If you can find one, snag it -- it's chock full of great arrangements and performances. Key of G.
Strange as it may sound, I've never been any good at making long runs of saw strokes sound musical, so I've generally avoided them. I'll be using this tune to help me work on that deficiency -- Bill uses a lot of saw strokes here to great effect. I'm thinking that the key I've missed all along is accenting the backbeat properly while saw-stroking... so I made the backbeat notes in this tab darker to help me emphasis them while I'm reading along.
It's unusual for a fiddler to end a phrase with the low G chord doublestop including the C note (fourth string at the fourth fret). Bill seems to use this low CG dyad a lot here -- the low C is always faint, but it does seem to be there. I hear no hint of the open G string as I would expect. In fact, the open G only seems to be sounded once in the B part -- unusual for a G tune!
Comments, suggestions and/or corrections are always welcome! Write me at: doug at oldtimefiddle dot us
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