Icy Mountain
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Icy Mountain" is an old-time breakdown in D Mixolydian. It is played in<br> Standard or AEae fiddle tuning. The parts are played AABB.<br> There is a song collected in Kentucky by this title but<br> it seems unrelated to this breakdown piece. The tune in circulation<br> by this title was collected from Ward Jarvis (b. 1894), originally of<br> Braxton County, West Virginia (later of southeastern Ohio, where he<br> moved in the 1940's to work in the timber industry), who learned it<br> from a Clay County (W.Va.) left-handed fiddler by the name Frank Santy.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher. His notes:<br> First heard from Bob Carlin, but, since John Lamancusa and I seemed<br> to be the only ones playing the tune that way, it's written without<br> the hinky Carlin stuff, which is available in Bob's Fiddle Tunes for<br> Clawhammer Banjo book.<br> Since John's banjo version uses A tuning (aEAC#E), I transposed<br> Ward Jarvis' fiddle version to A Mixolydian.<br> It was printed in Milliner & Koken's Milliner-Koken Collection of<br> American Fiddle Tunes (2011),<br> Spadaro's 10 Cents a Dance (1980) and<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021).<br> It was recorded by Michael, McCreesh, & Campbell on Dance Like the Waves<br> of the Sea (1978),<br> Bob Carlin on Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo (1980) and<br> The Rough Deal Stringband on The Rough Deal Stringband – Orange Album<br> (2001). <br>
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