Let's give Marcus Martin a little credit please!!! He did not write it, but his version is where most OLD-TIME fiddlers get this song from. Marcus Martin was a fiddle/banjo player from North Carolina and recorded in the late 50s and early 60s. Happy Hollow and Booth were also tunes we fiddle players reference him for. No...Bruce didn't write it, nor could he have written it.
I am not so sure that Bruce Molsky wrote that tune tho he definitely plays it and recorded it. From the Fiddler's Companion: "SHOVE THAT PIG'S FOOT A LITTLE FARTHER IN THE FIRE. Old-Time, Breakdown. G Major. Standard tuning. The tune was originally recorded by western North Carolina fiddler Martin Marcus on an LP where he played it as a duet with his son Wayne. Marcus also recorded for the Library of Congress in the 1940's."
lovely performance - a who's who of Scots, Irish and American trad musicians. One small point , John Doyle appears to be playing an octave mandola not his usual guitar.
Molsky must be about two hundred years old if he wrote this song, because, "Shove The Pig's Foot" is an old slave dance tune. In some areas it's known as "Sweet Sally Daisy".
Bruce Molsky would have to have been barely out of diapers when he wrote this if it was recorded back in the 1940's. Hmmmmmmm. Great tune for fiddle or banjer.
I love that song. Not only the title is funny, the whole song is seething with joy and happiness.
A pig's foot is a type of branding iron
@@carolesherwell57 OH? I didn't know that. Thanks for lecturing me 😁😁
Just played thiat song tonight with my band...it was great fun and everyone was dancing. Love that tune, thanks for posting, this amazing version
Yee haa! Great all round: what slide guitar playing. I defy anyone to sit still listening to this.
Fantastic! I love it!!
One of my favorite tunes. My contradance band plays it at every dance, after the final waltz, as the dancers are leaving the hall.
Really great, as always. Jerry Douglas is the greatest!
Hats off to the audio engineer. Pretty much my nightmare.
Love your spunky band; learning to play this tune on the mountain dulcimer (play along with you in key of G)! Thanks for posting!
And can you play it now???
Fantastic!
Lovely
Let's give Marcus Martin a little credit please!!! He did not write it, but his version is where most OLD-TIME fiddlers get this song from. Marcus Martin was a fiddle/banjo player from North Carolina and recorded in the late 50s and early 60s. Happy Hollow and Booth were also tunes we fiddle players reference him for. No...Bruce didn't write it, nor could he have written it.
I am not so sure that Bruce Molsky wrote that tune tho he definitely plays it and recorded it. From the Fiddler's Companion:
"SHOVE THAT PIG'S FOOT A LITTLE FARTHER IN THE FIRE. Old-Time, Breakdown. G Major. Standard tuning. The tune was originally recorded by western North Carolina fiddler Martin Marcus on an LP where he played it as a duet with his son Wayne. Marcus also recorded for the Library of Congress in the 1940's."
lovely performance - a who's who of Scots, Irish and American trad musicians. One small point , John Doyle appears to be playing an octave mandola not his usual guitar.
I wondered what that was - thank you!
Magic !
cool...thanks for posting
@Otaku155
The song is a traditional arr. by Bruce Molsky in this case.
Molsky must be about two hundred years old if he wrote this song, because, "Shove The Pig's Foot" is an old slave dance tune. In some areas it's known as "Sweet Sally Daisy".
Bruce got that tune from the great Marcus Martin, of Swannanoa, North Carolina. It ain't a "written" tune.
Is that Ally Bain playing fiddle...sat in the middle?
Nobody sing this song better!
@melodeon3 then it should say he arranged it, not that he wrote it.
And mine !
Bruce Molsky would have to have been barely out of diapers when he wrote this if it was recorded back in the 1940's. Hmmmmmmm. Great tune for fiddle or banjer.
I see Tim O'Brien there.
This music isn’t getting nearly enough attention
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Bruce Molsky did not write this song
Didn't know that John Malcovitch could fiddle.