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"It’s old style, not bluegrass,” Hudson explained. “Claw hammer style and frailing where you down pick with the back of your thumb and finger,” he said, describing his own manner of playing. Treanor’s style, he joked, is “fraggeling.”
Their music brings to mind scenes of British "limies” dancing a sailor’s hornpipe on the deck of one of His Majesty's sailing vessels.
At Monday’s practice, they ripped into Sailor’s Joy, “otherwise known as the enlisted man at payday,’’ Wood joked, and then did “Swinging On A Gate,” an old Irish tune that began as a hornpipe and has been smoothed out into a reel over the centuries.
“They’re all reels,” Wood explained. “They start off slow and bouncy and then get faster and smoother.”
“Most of our Southern Appalachian dance tunes have their origins in Scottish and Irish dance music tunes.
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