RG - Posted - 02/21/2012:  17:35:40

Does anyone have a track listing for the Merrimac cassette "Troxsong" featuring the Troxell Brothers (the selection number is 9025C)?  Any help would sure be appreciated...thank you!

plunknplinkntwang - Posted - 02/24/2012:  01:32:19

RG

i can't personally help but the archives have a text by Sean aka Mojo Monk in which he linked to a tune from this album.  Perhaps Sean will be able to assist?

rgds

Chris

Edit to add link - it was this topic

banjohangout.org/archive/168083

Edited by - plunknplinkntwang on 02/24/2012 01:35:31

mojo_monk - Posted - 02/24/2012:  05:49:56

Since this recording has been talked about so many times and there is no sign that it'll ever become commercially (or otherwise) available again, HERE's a link to download the digitized cassette. If it ever hits the market again let me know and I'll post a link to where one might purchase it.

This music needs to be heard.

-Sean

gailg64 - Posted - 02/24/2012:  06:58:33

Thanks, appreciate the link--though I've got the cassette, because of my current software/operating system mismatch, do not have digitizing capability.

The Troxells had that spine tingling close knit sound that you sometimes get with matched genetics. Several more cuts of their music can be heard on County 786: Gettin' Up the Stairs: Music from the Cumberland Plateau. (I suspect that's out of print as well--will check.) I especially enjoy Clyde's banjo playing on Skippin Through the Ice and Snow and on his challenging solo-contest tune French Waltz. That it continues to be played today is a tribute to Clyde's glorious banjo picking & to the teaching abilities of Mike Seeger, who presented it on his banjo styles DVD set. I am encouraged that younger musicians such as Tenn. fiddler & banjo player Joseph Decosimo are interested in the Troxell's music. Joseph knows several of the Troxell's tunes & plays & sings Clyde's Skippin Through the Ice &

Snow.

G

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Originally posted by mojo_monk

Since this recording has been talked about so many times and there is no sign that it'll ever become commercially (or otherwise) available again, HERE's a link to download the digitized cassette. If it ever hits the market again let me know and I'll post a link to where one might purchase it.

This music needs to be heard.

 

-Sean

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Edited by - gailg64 on 02/24/2012 07:01:13

Clawdan - Posted - 02/24/2012:  13:15:25

Thanks Sean. Once had all the Marimacs but some have gotten away from me like that one. Good to have it back.

Many of the former Marimac Recording artists have re-released their projects themselves so a short look to the internet can usually help you find if others are available. BTW, my recordings as The Boiled Buzzards are now both available from me as CD's.

Thanks again Sean.

Play nice,

Dan

RG - Posted - 02/24/2012:  14:29:41

Thanks all and especially Sean for hooking me up with this great collection of music!  This album is an amazing collection of tunes, if you have even a passing interest in OT banjo, you definitely need to listen to this collection...it's a perfect companion to the FRC DVD...my interest in the Troxell's music has turned into an obsession on both the banjo and fiddle, so thanks again for feeding that monkey Sean!!!