Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 6

You all should consider adding Rayna Gellert recording of “Winder Slide” to your collection. In fact, the whole album is fabulous. It’s called Ways of the World.

Here’s a link to the iTunes store: Winder Slide.
Here’s a link to the Amazon mp3 store: Ways of the World.

Winder Slide medium banjo & fiddle

Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Paul | October 13, 2012 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4Ever (Tue) – week 5

I learned this from Howard “Rusty” Marshall of Columbia, Missouri in 1998. When he recorded it a few years later, it sounded like a different tune. That’s the way aural tradition ebbs and flows.

Evansville slower

Evansville faster

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | October 13, 2012 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 2Rep (Tue) – week 5

Eighth of January, slow and too simple for Fiddle 2

Eighth of January, medium tempo

Eighth of January, full speed ahead

Filed under: Fiddle 2 Rep,Paul Tyler by Paul | October 13, 2012 | Comments (0)

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – weeks 4&5

In week 4, we learned a G tune . . .

Brushy Fork, Jenny Sidle of Hanover, Ohio, 1986

Brushy Fork medium banjo & fiddle

In week 5, a D tune . . .

Washington’s March, Edden Hammonds of West Virginia, 1947

Washington’s March, slow

Washington’s March, medium

Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Paul | October 3, 2012 | Comments (0)

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 1

The tune is Fortune, normally a D tune, here transposed to A. The lyrics came from Mildred Plummer.

Won’t Get Drunk No More, Indian Creek Delta Boys

Here are the lyrics.
Won’t Get Drunk No More
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Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Paul | September 6, 2012 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 2Rep (Tue) – week 1

I learned the tune from Garry Harrison. He learned it from Benny Wood.
Here’s Mr. Wood playing it (heard on Dear Old Illinois).

Forty Miles from Georgetown without Any Whiskey

NB Right click the tune title and “save link” (the mp3 file) to your computer. Or click the arrow to listen.

Filed under: Fiddle 2 Rep,Paul Tyler by Paul | September 6, 2012 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4Ever (Tue) – week 7

A tune in C with many names and many versions.

Old Bob Donald Duff, Lizton, Indiana, 1979

Mr. Duff called the tune “Walter Harmon’s Hornpipe in C,” after the “older gentleman” he learned it from. I got the name “Old Bob” from Jimmie Campbell of Dolan, Indiana.

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | August 9, 2012 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4Ever (Tue) – weeks 5 & 6

In Week 5 we did Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom, a tune shaped differently by each player.

Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom Ed Morrison of Kentucky, circa 1937

Blackberry Blossom Frank Hall & Lena Ullman, 2007

NOTE Frank Hall, a native Hoosier now living in Ireland, will be a featured guest at Fiddle Club of the World, on Sunday, September 30. Details forthcoming on the Fiddle Club blog

In Week 6, we did Snake River Reel, a tune made up in the 1970s by dance caller Peter Lippincott of St. Louis (now living in Arkansas).

Snake River Reel Steve Rosen & Paul Tyler

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | August 4, 2012 | Comments (0)

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 6

Magpie comes from Harlan and Lonnie Coble of Guildford County, North Carolina. The Fuzzy boys learned it from them sometime around 1970. I lived in Guildford County in 1971-72.

Magpie Fuzzy Mountain String Band

Magpie medium tempo on fiddle

Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Paul | August 2, 2012 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 2 (Tue) – weeks 5&6

Here’s Maria McCullough playing Spotted Pony
Spotted Pony medium tempo on fiddle

Paul Tyler with Steve Rosen
Spotted Pony, fiddle and banjo duet

The following recording of Jonas Friddle is brought to you by the “Tunes for Kids Archive.” It’s the same tune.

Muddy Roads slow

Filed under: Fiddle 2,Paul Tyler by Paul | August 1, 2012 | Comments (0)


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