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Boil Them Cabbage Down with Shuffle Bowing

Taught by Vi Wickam

March 21, 2017

Fiddle • Beginner

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Boil Them Cabbage Down according to Wikipedia

“Boil Them Cabbage Down” (also “Bile ‘Em Cabbage Down”) is an American folk song.[1] Hoecakes are small cornmeal cakes that were baked over a fire on the blade of a hoe. A breakfast of hoecakes and cabbage soup testifies to the humble origins of this song. According to Alan Lomax, musicologist and folklorist formerly of the Library of Congress, this tune was originally associated with African slaves brought from Niger.[citation needed]

Notable versions of the song have been played by such artists as Pete Seeger,[2] Ruby Jane Smith[3] and the Smothers Brothers. Sam Hinton sings the song in the album How the West Was Won (1959).

Vi Wickam

Vi Wickam

Vi Wickam of Loveland, CO has been performing fiddle and writing music since before he could read. Along with his brothers and dad, The Wickam Family Band performed regularly on Blinky’s Fun Club, a nationally syndicated TV program. Vi’s fiddling can be heard on numerous CD recordings, including two of his own. He’s played with many different bands throughout the United States, and even briefly in England. Among his fiddling honors, Vi has won the Colorado State Championship twice, and been a finalist four times at the Grand Masters’ Fiddler Championship. He has judged fiddle contests throughout the US, and directed regional and state level fiddle contests. Read More About Vi→

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