The Little Carpenter (3:26)

The Little Carpenter (3:26)

Contact: Audrey Molsky
audrey@brucemolsky.com (914) 489-9961

Traditional, arranged by Molsky’s Mountain Drifters
Publishing & PRO Dielectric Music / ASCAP

The band:
Fiddle & Vocal: Bruce Molsky
Banjo: Allison de Groot
Guitar & Vocal: Stash Wyslouch

Everything comes from somewhere. You don’t hear much “jig time” (6/8) in southern old time music, but Jim Howard of Kentucky did it in the 1930s with humor, and accompanying himself with nothing but a fiddle on The Little Carpenter. This is our fleshed-out take on Mr. Howard’s take on a funny old English ballad that can’t decide if it’s about love, lust or religion.