Music and Eggs anyone?

This time of year, when most people are going to the lake or the creek to get cool, we here at the Myers family (South), we are gearing up for festivals! All summer and fall there are various opportunities for an Old-Time fiddler to play to his hearts content…not to mention to do a lot of Square Dancing! I am not very good at it yet but man, it’s a blast! No I am not talking about people in all exactly alike uniforms getting out and looking like a some western swing kind of thing, I am talking about getting out on the dance floor, in the middle of a town street, or in a Gym that could host 5 basket ball games simultaneously…and making mistake after mistake and falling over ourselves…but have a blast every minute!

June 20th is the next big square dance that we will be going to. We generally camp out at the civic center lawn, dance till about 10pm, and then Jam till 2 or 3 in morning…or when everyone leaves. Then we get up, drink some coffee and do it all over again. Around 1 to 2 we go out to a River (the name evades me right now) and it has a big spring that flows into it. We swim the river down stream till we get to the spring then go over to it (it’s in a small eddie) then jump in and scream all the way out.

I thought I would give you a little taste of this place buy posting a video. This is from last year I hope you enjoy it.

And since I am in the Music mood I thought I would post another video I recently recorded. I didn’t have my good video camera with me but I wanted to record this tune…its called Rattle Snake and it is played in A Cross-tune (AEAE). Sorry about the poor quality audio…hope you can still hear it.




I also just learned a new tune on the Banjo. I am not a real Clawhammer player…I just try to make it look and sound like it. I wish there was someone here that could teach me the technique but for now I will just make do. This tune is called Colored Aristocracy and I learned from a DVD video that Steve Overby from Alabama sent me. This video was of a jam session in which a fella in the jam played this…not sure of his name. Hope you enjoy.

This tune is a tune called Cherokee Shuffle.


We are incubating some 3 dozen chicken eggs now. We hoped the Bannies would set on them and hatch them for us but they hadn’t seem to want to do that…that is until after we purchased an incubator and was into the process a few days. Now, there are two of them setting eggs. We are hoping to get some young chickens to replace these that we bought. Due to the fact that unless they are being given a supplement they wont lay. So I think they are just too old and we got taken by the guy we bought them from.