video,youtube_link,musiccaps_caption,youtube_published,youtube_channel,youtube_description,musiccaps_names,musiccaps_aspects,musiccaps_author,youtube_id,musiccaps_rowid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swIXVQtP_TI&start=30&end=40,"{""label"":""Cold Frosty Morning for the Mandolin Cafe"",""href"":""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swIXVQtP_TI&start=30&end=40""}","The low quality recording features a cover that consists of a mandolin solo melody playing over playback instrumental that has smooth bass and acoustic rhythm guitar. The recording is noisy, in mono and it sounds passionate and joyful.",2009-06-23T11:30:38Z,Mandolin1944,"This is a very interesting tune.  The tune has several versions and at least two of them are totally different tunes.  The one played here is, I think,  by far the most common in North America and is played in the key of Am.  It is a tune of Scottish origin (perhaps derived from an air by the great Neil Gow? -- not sure about that).  

The tune in this form commemorates the battle of Culloden Moor, when, on cold spring morning in 1746 the English Army surprised and massacred a Scottish highlander army and thereby ended the Jacobite Rebellion.  In years that followed thousands of apparently completely innocent Scotts were murdered by the English general the Duke of Cumberland (aka the Butcher) to punish them and to assure no more highlander rebellions would occur.  

But there is another version of ""Cold Frosty Morning"" which is an old tyme quadrille (6/8 time? or 3/4 time?) which was played in using an altered tuning and is in the key of D. The Fiddlers Companion attributes this tune to Stephen B. Tucker of Mississippi who started fiddling in late 1860's and was recorded for the Library of Congress in 1939. I plan to research this more. And of course the bluegrass folks have a ball with it.  Im playing it here at 90 bpm in 2/4 time.

Played on a 2002 Gibson F-5 Fern","[""Acoustic guitar"", ""Music"", ""Mandolin"", ""Musical instrument"", ""Steel guitar, slide guitar"", ""Plucked string instrument""]","[""low quality"", ""noisy"", ""mono"", ""cover"", ""mandolin solo melody"", ""acoustic rhythm guitar"", ""smooth bass"", ""instrumental playback"", ""passionate"", ""joyful""]",4,swIXVQtP_TI,4988