Greetings fiddlers!  We’re inaugurating a whole new 5-string Fiddle lesson series with this preview: a lesson on my original tune “Breaker’s Bakedown”.
This is a 5-string fiddle tune that appears on my new Mr Sun Band recording, "Extrovert", released on Compass Records in mid-May. This is a preview and you can hear the single on Bluegrass Today at this URL.

Mr Sun always likes to put at least one unapologetically straight-ahead fiddle tune into every show and every recording. I wrote this one to feature and celebrate the five-string fiddle; you can't really play this one right without that bottom string on there.
Right at the crux of the tune, it's like that first hill on the roller coaster, up to the top all the way to the bottom.
I was thinking about Kenny Baker a lot when this tune got made, and I feel like there's a lot of Mr Baker in there. He had some pretty sly, dry humor going in so many of his tunes.   So... in honor of Kenny and all the thousands of cooking shows we watched during the pandemic, this one's called "Breaker's Bakedown".