Yew Piney Mountain
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Yew Piney Mountain" is an American reel with irregular measures in A Mixolydian/Dorian.<br> It is played in AEae (Burl Hammons) or DGdg (Harvey Sampson) fiddle tunings.<br> The parts are played AAB (Krassen, Phillips) or AA'B (Reiner & Anick).<br> "Yew Piney Mountain" is an archaic sounding, slightly irregular ('crooked'), modal melody<br> (that fluctuates between dorian and mixolydian modes, or is in mixed mode, depending on the player),<br> was in the repertoire of several older central West Virginia fiddlers.<br> It is related to the breakdown <br> "Garfield's Blackberry Blossom".<br> Wilson Douglas, a Clay County, West Virginia, fiddler who learned the tune from his mentor<br> French Carpenter, said it took him "five long years" to master his version of "Yew Piney Mountain"<br> (although he also said this of<br> "Walking in the Parlor").<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher.<br> It was printed in Stephen F. Davis' The Devil's Box, vol. 29, No. 3, Fall 1995,<br> Krassen's Appalachian Fiddle (1973),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995) and<br> Reiner & Anick's Old Time Fiddling Across America (1989).<br> It was recorded by Harvey Sampson and the Big Possum String Band on Flat Foot in the Ashes (1986/1994),<br> Burl Hammons on Old Time Music of Pocahontas County,<br> French Carpenter on Elzic's Farewell,<br> Wilson Douglas on Rounder Fiddle (1990) and<br> The Right Hand Fork of Rush's Creek (1975) and<br> Reed Island Rounders on Goin’ Home (2002).<br>
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