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10. They did the fiddle solo in one take. It was intended as a sound check.

Reply to Little_Wing (Reply #9)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 12:50 AM

Mar 2014

One of my favorite studio stories about that. It's actually not a Civil War-era song at all; it was written by Jay Ungar and he played it just to make sure his fiddle was in tune. Fortunately the tape was rolling. Ken listened to the dailies and said "we're not going to get a better take than that" and used it in the final.

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