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This is a really fun tune to play, particularly with several fiddlers. This is also my inaugural banjo recording on my Tascam DR-07.

I've known of this tune for several years, I think from a dulcimer group which I sometimes play with. This version is based on Billy Mathews' fiddle version.

Learned from Billy Mathews' 500 tunes. I have read that the title is a corruption of "Wounded Hussar"

I just learned of this tune in the past year. The Fiddlers Companion states that the first part sounds like Jenny Lynd Polka, but it remindes me more of Whiskey Before Breakfast. The second part is like Straw Bonnet.

You know, I've never really learned this tune. I've been asked to play it for a friend's CD, so I finally began working on it. I actually went back to my old copy of Miles Krasen's book to get me started. This morning I was pretty happy, but by the time I got to recording it in the afternoon I seemed to have lost it again. It may work OK for backing up a fiddle.

Posted in preparation for a Tune of the Week. Now I need to come up with some background.

This elegant tune was written by Billy Mathews and I learned it from his 500 Fiddle Tunes set of CDs (currently 300 tunes are available on his web site www.banjobilly.net). I'm not playing the B part quite right, but I'm working on it. I post my version here with his permission. I actually play it more on the fiddle than banjo, and I've added my fiddle version, which actually matches the B part more correctly.

Steve Staley on fiddle, Mark Mathewson on guitar. I want to redo this version with multiple microphones.

BHO member maxmax chose "Rockingham Cindy" as a tune of the week I was inspired, so here it is played on the old aluminum banjo, tuned in double-C more or less. My version is strongly colored by "Get Along Home Cindy" as I sang it in grade school.

Once again I'm at work a bit later than I want to be, and waiting for a computer to do something. I've been working on this on the fiddle from Billy Mathew's cd set of 500 tunes. On that one he plays it in A, tune AEAE on the fiddle, and on the fiddle I either use that or standard tuning. I understand that it's often played in D. But, my old aluminum banjo is more-or-less in double-C tuning so that's what I'm playing in here.