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Well, I finally played this, inspired by a tune of the week on the banjo hangout. Imust have heard this years ago because it's on a Fuzzy Mountain String Band LP, but the first time I remember hearing it was by the Red Hots just a couple of years ago. Lots of different versiosn of this tune, and this is one of them.

Pretty tune. I've heard many versions, and I expect that mine does not really match any other one, but it's more of a solo piece anyway.

A bunch of us learning Needle Case from Steve.

A Carter Family song.

I'm here with a banjo, and no place to play. This is the first tune I heard on my cello banjo, played by Donald Zepp and posted on youtube. I bought it from him a couple of days after he posted.

This is the version played at our jam session. Actually, the second time through because I requested to play it again. I think there are 3 fiddles, 3 mandolins, 3 guitars, and 1 banjo.

I've learned this tune from Steve Staley, who plays it faster than I do. I do much fewer notes if I play along for dance speed. There are two versions of this in Dear Old Illinois, I think this one is closer to the one from Howard Sims.

This is a self-indulgent thing in which I multi-tracked myself on banjo, fiddle, mandolin, and guitar. I hope that my version of the B section is correct, I worked it out from a recording downloaded from the Pegram Jam site, and it seemed to me that the fiddlers were doing a couple of different things.

I first heard this tune from a BHO posting by Chris Ptasnik, and then bought the CD by the Airtight String Band of Charleston, IL, which has it. I was taken by the tune, did not learn it then, just stuck it in the "list of good tunes I should learn". Then I recently got the re-issue CDs of the Indian Creek Delta Creek Boys, and worked it out on mandolin while I was waiting around in the car before playing for one of those cemetery walk events. Being on mandolin, I didn't know what key I was in, so I was surprised when I later asked my fiddler friend and he said it was in G.

An Illinois tune. I don't have my copy of Dear Old Illinois with me at the moment so I cannot give further info on it. I've learned it from a combination of Clifford Harrison, Sean Barth, and Cathy Moore. It is on the Indian Delta Creek Boys Vol 1, and has the following information in the liner notes:RUSH AND THE PEPPER; (Key of D): Jesse James Abbott of rural Toledo said that he learned this hornpipe as a young boy in Missouri. J.J.