Here’s a lovely and unusual setting of Sugar in the Gourd from North Carolina fiddler Marcus Martin (1881-1974). He was a multi-instrumentalist (harmonica, banjo, dulcimer) and a fine ballad singer as well. A jack of all trades, Martin moonlighted as a square dance fiddler and played for many years at Bascom Lamar Lunsford’s Mountain Dance and Folk Festival in Asheville, opening the festival with the tune “Gray Eagle.”

Sugar in the Gourd (dance speed, mp3)[wpdm_file id=441]

Sugar in the Gourd (sheet music, pdf)[wpdm_file id=442]