It seems our volunteer for this week's Tune of the Week may be in a tryptophan-induced slumber after overdosing on Thanksgiving turkey, so I am going to post a very quick emergency back-up tune. I usually rely on a tune I have "in the works", but my quiver is empty at the moment so I will rely, as I often do, on Ken Torke's great TaterJoe's site and just pick one that he has recently posted.
I could not find any Thanksgiving-related tunes, so I went with a more generic title to celebrate the weekend - Kick Up the Devil on the Holiday. The tune comes to us from the nineteenth-century minstrel tradition, specifically from banjo player Thomas Briggs, who is credited with composing the tune and who included it in his 1855 tutor "Briggs' Banjo Instructor", considered to be the first banjo instructional book (http://tunearch.org/wiki/Kick_Up_the_Devil_on_a_Holiday). The tune has gained in popularity among the old-time community in the last decade, after the Foghorn Stringband included it on their 2005 album "Wesier Sunrise".
Greg Adams, solo minstrel banjo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7USsXsOXCY
Greg Adams and friends, minstrel banjo, fiddle, flute, clogging: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoSNV1inoc0
Dave Banjo, solo banjo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fg0b9LIUXI
Angela M. Wellman, solo banjo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHnqK_f6IN4
Familynoise: fiddle/piano: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXW1kwKAyko
James Bryan and Carl Jones, fiddle/guitar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGX-5tAMkSw
Foghorn Stringband: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KqA8wNMCW8