Possum on a Rail

Key of G. Two parts. Be careful because one part sounds like Roscoe. 

• 1930 recording of Mississippi Possum Hunters [watch the album cover or the vinyl on utoob, or watch the MP3 player at Slippery Hill].

• Georgia Crackers jam with Ms Moonshine clogging [utoob].

• Bruse Molskey at a Clifftop 2015 jam [utoob].

• Chirps Smith [utoob] in a coffeehouse with banjo. Poor video but lots of notes.

• Here is how they play it on the streets of Barcelona [vimeo].

• Lost Mountain String Band [utoob non-video] with singing and frailing banjo. Here's a video of them on stage playing Old Plank Road [utoob].

• Lots of fiddle slides by Joe Shewbridge [utoob stills].

• Kolodner Quartet with Rachel Eddy fiddling [utoob]. Possum comes second. Skip ahead to 3:55 for possum.

• Rattle on the Stovepipe at a 2012 folk festival [utoob non-video].

• Solo banjo in the bathroom [utoob] by Eli Strauss.

• Very nice coffee shop performance by Stone Mountain Wobblers [utoob].

Not to be confused with...

• Possum's Tail is Bare. 

• Possum up a Gum Stump. 

• The opossum. As Roy Blount pointed out, the O in Possum is silent. Americans pronounce opossum as possum. Actually there is a possum that lives in Australia. The opossum lives up & down the Americas. Both types have bare tails. The opossum name dates back to Virginia 1610 when it was adopted from the Algonquian language.