Tommy Jarrell: Cripple Creek (1983)

Tommy Jarrell and string band at the Edwards-Franklin House during the annual Sonker Festival, Mount Airy, North Carolina, July 23, 1983. Jarrell (fiddle and vocal); Chester McMillian (guitar); Frank Bodie (guitar and vocal); Ray Chatfield (five-string banjo). [03.23.06]

[@masonboles6709]

This is my great great grandpa!

[@flukenukem]

Sending love from the north of england to all you tommy fans!!

[@MyGrassIsGreenest]

That banjo player is top tier too, love his playing.

[@BluegillGreg]

This summer we're teaching this and a bunch of other American fiddle tunes to a group of teenage beginners and orchestral violinists. It'll be fun. I'm stoked. It's great to be looking back 40 years at this session and looking forward to new players in July.

[@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim]

Just remind them that this is the perfect music for those who are uncomfortable with it! It was made for fun and for relaxing and not for perfect performances.

[@zachb8012]

@@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim What a way to put it.

[@BRIAN_IVERSON_20]

two fiddles, two guitars, and one banjo still brightly rings through

[@randybuchert1993]

there ain't nothing on earth as good as this for listening.

[@Warchin007]

Now thats a fiddle !🪖

[@johndelgado5315]

This the real thing... original backwoods old time... I have chills...!

[@featherriver2080]

I was fortunate enough to spend a couple of days in the company of Tommy Jarrell and Mike Seeger.

[@tobyblake851]

That's great-do you play old time music. i try but I'm from California, not Galax, VA, ah ha ha. I really like clawhammer banjo and fiddling. Genuine American music. Ya! I saw Seeger play banjo at a festivl once and had his dvd on banjo styles,and in the seventies I listened to Tommy Jarrel on record and copped some of his songs. I love this music.

[@OldJoeClarke]

Is there a greater fiddler, person on this planet. Tommy is just the best.

[@bluzeblast]

I love stuff like this! People that love to play just getting together for front porch jam sessions. My uncle and his sons used to get together and just play for hours in his drive way. The neighborhood folks would come out and sit in their front yards and porches just to listen. My Uncle Dean passed away this summer, 2014. I dont think there has been a guitar, fiddle, or banjo played since then. They lived in Blue Springs Missouri.

[@lindacaul5419]

love love Tommy Jarrell and the band's Cripple Creek, one of my favorite tunes! Thanks for this brightening a rainy day...God Bless

[@sheilawillard677]

That man in the hat is my grandpa Kelly Cockerham and yes he played banjo,fiddle,guitar, and also made them!!

[@alexhickey5633]

All the layers of tone with the instruments. Just wow. Gotta love the lope of the banjo

[@chuter3819]

This is just so good

[@ethanmorton7122]

When you feel the music like Tommy did, everything comes natural to playing the music.

[@greenbrooms]

ray chatfield is crushing this tune!

[@PLINKER]

Now that old time music!

[@ctsfiddler]

incredible energy. wonderful.

[@sharokhjoudi4693]

BEAUTIFUL COUTRY MUSICS. THANK U

[@HellzNord]

So wonderful! This is just fantastic!

[@wbelm]

Top shelf. Thanks to all

[@smheron1]

Gold.

[@daniel3231995]

So wish I could play country. So freely authentic ! man can shred

[@joseph2832]

Old time not country

[@TheDuckjay101]

you go tommy, never had that many peeps at my house watchin me getin down.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Tommy Jarrell's Fiddle has Geared tuners.

[@jean-paulraillat3771]

formidable!!!! merçi messieurs!!!jp de saintonge-maritime en aquitaine

[@oldbird-zm8qt]

This fiddle player is cooler than all modern pop musicians rolled together.

[@suicide-dive]

not really, this shit was kinda lame

[@patsyeast1584]

Love, Love, Love :)

[@Freawulf]

Jackson's in the valley... :)

[@dbd1353]

i'm with ya..

[@bwggns]

I'm going to start a religion that worships Tommy.

[@TheKiller1345]

Brian Wiggins where do I sign up?

[@replyhere590]

Cripple Creek ran through my Great Uncle Andrew Lindsey Porter’s front yard in Speedwell, VA. Love to know if that is the one the song is about.

[@Florida_frontiersman]

I'm pretty sure this tune refers to cripple creek running through Virginia, so yes it is

[@TheCARENTAN]

heee aahh Good one Amitiésde France

[@horseoutbarn]

Good...Good...Good. Reminds me of my uncle Tim Walsh..He could really play good hoedowns

[@jf752]

why did people downvote this?

[@rc41558]

Good old time fiddling

[@jamespeterson5188]

The old gentleman in the hat seems pretty baffled by all that sound coming from the four-stringed devil :) Actually, with that concentration, I wouldn't be surprised if he's a fiddler, too.

[@mrcatscats11]

I JUST WANT TO HUG HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@relicseveneighteen8723]

How does everyone on the porch manage to stand still, he said dancing away ....

[@ezekielsmukler2903]

I read Frank's name spelled Bode on the Frank Bode LP album cover. Bode is pronounced "Bodie".

[@StevieD1]

It's there ANY radius on his bridge??

[@dukeofearlbanjo]

Wow not much!!

[@SnowPheasant]

Sure sign of a fiddler 😄

[@MrAdamNTProtester]

80's music... and so much better than duran duran

[@wasup397]

How

[@Jim-Barline]

0:50 1:20

[@ethanmorton7122]

Is that a young Sutkin on fiddle?

[@Clomwellschimdt]

It's Rhys Jones

[@jolenalyons8126]

This my great uncle not to flex or anything

[@gajda1984]

Close your eyes and you can see the Civil War era.

[@MrAdamNTProtester]

The song is post civil war but sure ok

[@robinmatyjasek7390]

King Thomas. The closest we will get to American royal family...

[@reedcollins7783]

Hahaha. That old timers face...what in deee hell is these boys doin?

[@novakattila]

Fiddler must have made a pact with the devil himself