Hey, I remember this project! That's me in the two bottom panels, playing fiddle and guitar.

This one is near and dear to my heart for several reasons.

First, my grandmother used to sing this song to me when I was a little girl, when we were swinging together on my swing set in the backyard. If you didn't know, there are lyrics to Red Wing. And Woody Guthrie used the melody for his song "Union Maid."

Then, this project happened only about nine months after I took up the fiddle. I very much wanted to participate for the aforementioned reason, but the tune seemed complicated and the backing track way too fast. I created my own simplified fiddle part that left out a lot of notes. 🙂

Obviously, we didn't get many people to participate. Not sure why I did the rhythm guitar part...it wasn't really necessary with the backing track.

Now, seven years later, I play this tune a lot...on mandolin at bluegrass jams, on fiddle at home, and on guitar with my bluegrass band. In fact, I wrote some new lyrics to make it a birthday song that my band could play in place of the usual Happy Birthday.

Thanks for resurrecting this!