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