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Isham Monday Tune #2 - "Fire on the Mountain"

Here's the second tune from the "Isham Monday Tunes" Series, this Is one of the better known tunes from Isham Monday. (1879 - 1964) from Monroe County, Kentucky. This rare version of Fire on the Mountain Is quite different from the more commonly known version. It's not nearly as upbeat, and most likely much older. My fiddle Is relatively tuned half a step above GDGD (G# D# G# D#) Although Isham played this tune a whole step below cross G (FCFC) which really gives this tune It's unique sound. Isham Monday (pronounced Ice-Um) was a lifelong farmer that lived on Cloyd's Ridge Along the Cumberland River In Monroe County, Kentucky. He supplied music in peoples homes in the region from the time has was a teenager until shortly before World War II, a span of fifty years. Isham learned to play the fiddle at age ten, He played a very old, archaic style of fiddle, where he'd be tuned so low that he could play three strings at once, and his bowing always consisted of slurs, swings, a series of saw-strokes, long-bows and was characterized by vigorous bowing and a great deal of bow pressure. He was recorded In the late 1950's by Lynwood Montell, who grew up In Monroe County. When he was recorded he was eighty years old and past his prime, but his settings show a spare and tasteful sense of melody laced with occasional, contrasting ornate flourishes. He marks the beat vigorously, emphasizing the down-beat more than most fiddlers from the upper south. He told John Newport that he knew more than a hundred tunes when he was married in 1906 (Elizabeth "Lizzie" Pruitt Monday, B. 1888), but at the time he was recorded he could start less than twenty. He played on his porch every night. "Oh, he lived for that," his son Carl told Burt Fientuch and Bruce Greene. Here's a link to Isham Monday playing this tune.    • Видео   Here's a great rendition of this tune played by Matt Brown    • Matt Brown - "Fire on the Mountain"   #fiddle #appalachianmusic