Shove The Pig's Foot (a little closer to the fire) - Celtic Connections 

I love that song. Not only the title is funny, the whole song is seething with joy and happiness.

Yee haa! Great all round: what slide guitar playing. I defy anyone to sit still listening to this.

One of my favorite tunes. My contradance band plays it at every dance, after the final waltz, as the dancers are leaving the hall.

Hats off to the audio engineer. Pretty much my nightmare.

Let's give Marcus Martin a little credit please!!! He did not write it, but his version is where most OLD-TIME fiddlers get this song from. Marcus Martin was a fiddle/banjo player from North Carolina and recorded in the late 50s and early 60s. Happy Hollow and Booth were also tunes we fiddle players reference him for. No...Bruce didn't write it, nor could he have written it.

Just played thiat song tonight with my band...it was great fun and everyone was dancing. Love that tune, thanks for posting, this amazing version

Fantastic! I love it!!

Really great, as always. Jerry Douglas is the greatest!

I am not so sure that Bruce Molsky wrote that tune tho he definitely plays it and recorded it. From the Fiddler's Companion: "SHOVE THAT PIG'S FOOT A LITTLE FARTHER IN THE FIRE. Old-Time, Breakdown. G Major. Standard tuning. The tune was originally recorded by western North Carolina fiddler Martin Marcus on an LP where he played it as a duet with his son Wayne. Marcus also recorded for the Library of Congress in the 1940's."

Love your spunky band; learning to play this tune on the mountain dulcimer (play along with you in key of G)! Thanks for posting!

Fantastic!

Lovely

Molsky must be about two hundred years old if he wrote this song, because, "Shove The Pig's Foot" is an old slave dance tune. In some areas it's known as "Sweet Sally Daisy".

Magic !

lovely performance - a who's who of Scots, Irish and American trad musicians. One small point , John Doyle appears to be playing an octave mandola not his usual guitar.

cool...thanks for posting

Nobody sing this song better!

@Otaku155 The song is a traditional arr. by Bruce Molsky in this case.

Bruce got that tune from the great Marcus Martin, of Swannanoa, North Carolina. It ain't a "written" tune.

Is that Ally Bain playing fiddle...sat in the middle?

Bruce Molsky would have to have been barely out of diapers when he wrote this if it was recorded back in the 1940's. Hmmmmmmm. Great tune for fiddle or banjer.

@melodeon3 then it should say he arranged it, not that he wrote it.

And mine !

This music isn’t getting nearly enough attention

I see Tim O'Brien there.

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Bruce Molsky did not write this song

Didn't know that John Malcovitch could fiddle.