- Style
- Old-time
- Tradition
- Appalachian old-time
- Form
- Reel
- Key
- A Dorian
- Level
- 2
- Played on
- Fiddle and Mandolin
In the public domain. Source
Music
100bpm
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Chord chart
History
Alan Jabbour collected "Frosty Morning" in the 1960s from Henry Reed, a fiddler from Glen Lyn, Virginia, born around 1885, and the Hollow Rock String Band's recording of the late 1960s spread it through the revival. The longer name "Cold Frosty Morning" got attached to it along the way. A tune called "Frosty Morning" was played at a fiddle contest in LaFollette, Tennessee, in 1931.
It sounds Scottish to many ears, and Tune Arch points out a strong likeness to "Johnny Cope," but nobody has proven a direct ancestor. Old-time, bluegrass and Irish session players all play it, at dance tempo or slower.