Nail That Catfish To A Tree on Padron Cigar Box Fiddle

Views: 204
Get Embed Code
This is a "new" tune that we play in old time music written by Steve Rosen. The fiddle is made from an almost too small Padron cigar box. I wanted to see wha...

You need to be a member of Cigar Box Nation to add comments!

Join Cigar Box Nation

Comments

  • Oh RTZ, those are vivid mem'ries from about 50 years ago. Boating and crabbing in S.MD as a teenager.

  • I didn't know that about the meat bees! I have fried catfish 6 or 8 at a time and man, I miss those days too. Memories start flooding back just thinking about it! Man, those were the days we'd walk through the muddy bottom of the river so our feet could feel the quahogs. We'd throw them in the pot with the Blue Crabs on a driftwood fire. I can smell it now just typing about it. This might be material for a song!

  • They keep the meat bees of the bacon in Buck Camp

    we use to use a big bent fork to skin catfish and fry 20 at a time miss those days

  • Thanks Derek. This one turned out better than expected!

  • Thanks James O

  • Great job on build and playing those Padron Boxes make good sounding instruments

  • Really sings well.

  • Thanks RTZ. That's the best way to skin 'em!

  • That sounds great Jim, Do you know why we nail a Catfish to a tree?

  • Thanks Sammy, 'Twas a rare 60 F. day in Feb. This is indeed music from the Southern Appalachian Mts.

This reply was deleted.
E-mail me when people leave their comments –