Thanks much!
-Erik
Paul Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, 24
Nov 2003, Carl Baron wrote:
>
>
>>Thanks to Jane
Keefer's Folk Music - An Index to Recorded Resources
>>Squirrel Heads
and Gravy
>>Piney Creek Weasels. Squirrel Heads and Gravy, Hay Holler
HHH-1101, CD
>>(1996), cut# 9
>
>
> SO how come
nobodys looked at ANdy Kuntzs' Fiddlers Companion?
>
> SQUIRREL
HEADS AND GRAVY. Old-Time, Breakdown. G Major. Standard or GDAD.
> AABB.
Composed by fiddler Chris Germain c. 1975, originally from Ferguson,
>
Missouri, lately of Washington D.C., apparently as part of a joke.
>
Ironically, the tune has entered tradition and is sometimes listed as
a
> "traditional" melody. The rumor that there is an older tune by the
same
> name only seems to be part of the joke. One story goes that
Germain asked
> around at fiddlers gatherings and parties whether anyone
had heard the
> 'old' tune called "Squirrel Heads and Gravy," then, a
few months later
> started playing his composition allowing people to
assume he had unearthed
> a long-lost piece. Squirrel heads and gravy is
a delicacy, said Missouri
> fiddler Taylor McBaire (1911-1994) of his
favorite food: "You get a
> skillet with those squirrel heads in that
gravy; you take a hammer and
> crack open those skulls and suck out
those brains. Now that's good eatin"
> (Old Time Herald, Vol. 4,
No. 5). Germain played the tune in GDAD tuning,
> although it has also
been played in GDGD and AEAE tunings. Train on the
> Island Records,
TI-12, Bovee & Heil - "For Old Times Sake."
>
> Paul
>
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