Shove The Pig's Foot (a little closer to the fire) - Celtic Connections

Written by Bruce Molsky and recorded at Celtic Connections 2009, Glasgow , Scotland
Bruce Molsky - fiddle
Tim O'Brien - fiddle
Aly Bain - fiddle
John McCustker - fiddle
Jerry Douglas - dobro
Dirk Powell- banjo
Mike McGoldrick - flute
Phil Cunningham - piano accordion
Donald Shaw - piano
Russ Barenberg - guitar
John Doyle - guitar
Todd Parks - bass
Pat McInerney - percussion
James McIntosh - drums

[@andyrendell7430]

Yee haa! Great all round: what alide guitar playing. I defy anyone to sit still listening to this.

[@Lucarius1]

I love that song. Not only the title is funny, the whole song is seething with joy and happiness.

[@carolesherwell57]

A pig's foot is a type of branding iron

[@Lucarius1]

@@carolesherwell57 OH? I didn't know that. Thanks for lecturing me 😁😁

[@wheetman]

Hats off to the audio engineer. Pretty much my nightmare.

[@nexothesmodrastica]

One of my favorite tunes. My contradance band plays it at every dance, after the final waltz, as the dancers are leaving the hall.

[@WF-WRB]

Let's give Marcus Martin a little credit please!!! He did not write it, but his version is where most OLD-TIME fiddlers get this song from. Marcus Martin was a fiddle/banjo player from North Carolina and recorded in the late 50s and early 60s. Happy Hollow and Booth were also tunes we fiddle players reference him for. No...Bruce didn't write it, nor could he have written it.

[@ouichtan]

Just played thiat song tonight with my band...it was great fun and everyone was dancing. Love that tune, thanks for posting, this amazing version

[@18hoss]

Fantastic! I love it!!

[@lawsonbob]

Really great, as always. Jerry Douglas is the greatest!

[@mondocain]

Fantastic!

[@ArkRed1]

Molsky must be about two hundred years old if he wrote this song, because, "Shove The Pig's Foot" is an old slave dance tune. In some areas it's known as "Sweet Sally Daisy".

[@jgarber235]

I am not so sure that Bruce Molsky wrote that tune tho he definitely plays it and recorded it. From the Fiddler's Companion: "SHOVE THAT PIG'S FOOT A LITTLE FARTHER IN THE FIRE. Old-Time, Breakdown. G Major. Standard tuning. The tune was originally recorded by western North Carolina fiddler Martin Marcus on an LP where he played it as a duet with his son Wayne. Marcus also recorded for the Library of Congress in the 1940's."

[@annlou68]

Love your spunky band; learning to play this tune on the mountain dulcimer (play along with you in key of G)! Thanks for posting!

[@alan4sure]

And can you play it now???

[@efrdawg]

cool...thanks for posting

[@marycaldwell5562]

Lovely

[@UISTMAN59]

Magic !

[@johnschwab3487]

Bruce got that tune from the great Marcus Martin, of Swannanoa, North Carolina. It ain't a "written" tune.

[@christaylor2070]

lovely performance - a who's who of Scots, Irish and American trad musicians. One small point , John Doyle appears to be playing an octave mandola not his usual guitar.

[@katherinejerome5699]

I wondered what that was - thank you!

[@buruceagga]

Nobody sing this song better!

[@Lucarius1]

@Otaku155 The song is a traditional arr. by Bruce Molsky in this case.

[@colinhesketh4710]

Is that Ally Bain playing fiddle...sat in the middle?

[@Otaku155]

@melodeon3 then it should say he arranged it, not that he wrote it.

[@ArkRed1]

Bruce Molsky would have to have been barely out of diapers when he wrote this if it was recorded back in the 1940's. Hmmmmmmm. Great tune for fiddle or banjer.

[@mush1955]

And mine !

[@alan4sure]

I see Tim O'Brien there.

[@heatherwimberly5190]

This music isn’t getting nearly enough attention

[@marymart4492]

B

[@Otaku155]

Bruce Molsky did not write this song

[@danh441]

Didn't know that John Malcovitch could fiddle.