...just thinkin' 'bout that one a lot here lately. Who plays it? I never did much but I did put it on YouTube once from my multitrack recording thing. I keep being reminded of how much I love the versatility of what modern (and post modern?) people call Nashville Shuffling...how versatile that feels to me...how it feels like the mother of all bowings, the final bowing solution, etc. Anyway, I can't play these days...hardly ever, but I have been imagining myself playing Sally in the Garden, and all that N. Shuffle could do for me with that one. I probably did rely on it heavily the time I played it for fun. Can't remember now and really can't spend a lot of time lookin' for youtubes either. Just sayin'...just soliloquizing my thoughts on the combo of N. Shuffling and Salliy in the Garden...and one day I might try it. Won't have any backup, though, because I can't multi track record, but I'll do a lonesome back porch version...lol...and nobody'll hear it except for the local birds and Chihuahuas, I guess. But I do often wonder how far out the music vibes go when they dissipate...how many universes do they travel...silently, or noisily...and how do they change shape as they travel on...what's that do to our long forgotten, once-played tunes as time warps them? Don't know. I just try to do as good as I can with 'em...just in case I ever run into them again some time, or in case some other far away civilization runs into them...lol...I mean, ya just never know where yer Sally in the Gardens could end up.
It's one of my favorites. Played it about a thousand times over the last 15 years at my shows. I'm not sure I have a recording of it. I don't use a shuffle that I know of on it, but love the rhythmic cadence of the words... the way i play it is much simpler and straighter than most i think...
sally in the garden
sifting, sifting
sally in the garden
sifting, sifting
sally in the garden sifting sand
sally in the garden with the hog eye man
Hmmm...there's one like that that I've heard called Hog Eyed Man...wondering if that's the same one as that or as Sally in the Garden...maybe mine has words but I didn't ever know them if it did. I'd like to hear yours but I guess maybe there's a similar one somewhere out there...lol...I mean, out there in cyberspace, or maybe out there dissipating in the vastness of space and time.
this is a similar tune to what i play
youtu.be/bQE4KBCsIn4?list=RDbQE4KBCsIn4
Yeah that's similar...I mean, probably the same. I fiddle those types of tunes differently than I play them on banjo, usually. I won't link mine...I'll just say it's similar but different...how's that?
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