New Five Cents
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"New Five Cents" is also known as "Five Cents", "New Five Cent Piece",<br> "Buffalo Nickel" and "Ruffled Drawers".<br> The tune is called “Buffalo Nickel” in the Ozarks, dating<br> that title for the tune to around 1913 when the Buffalo Nickel was<br> introduced (the melody may be older, under different titles).<br> "New Five Cents" was in the repertoire of Kentucky fiddler<br> Isham Monday (1879-1964), who played the tune in ADae tuning<br> but who tuned his fiddle so low it sounded below C.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher.<br> It was printed in Beisswenger & McCann's Ozarks Fiddle Music (2008),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994),<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> Songer’s Portland Collection, Vol. 2 (2005),<br> Lamancusa's The Gettysburg Collection of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes (2021) and<br> Titon's Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes (2001).<br> It was recorded by Clarence Ferrill Band on Five Miles Out of Town: Traditional Music<br> From the Cumberland Plateau,<br> Kirk Sutphin on Old Roots and New Branches (1994),<br> Jeannie Murphy and David Marcx on The Times Been Sweet,<br> Jim Bowles on Railroad Through the Rocky Mountains (1994),<br> Government Issue Orchestra on Cake vs Pie (2006) and<br> Gene Goforth on Traditional Fiddle Music of the Ozarks, vol. 1 (1999).<br>
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