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Playing Since: 1990
Experience Level: Purty Good
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Gender: Male
Age: 58
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Bart Reiter, No. 240, made in 1987; fretless; fretless Ramsey minstrel banjo; Burns No. 8, a handcrafted banjo by Jason Burns of Birmingham, Ala., with a 12-inch pot and Dobson tone ring; Chuck Lee semi-fretless with 11 in. pot.
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Fred Cockerham, Kyle Creed, Tommy Jarrell, Uncle Dave Macon, Art Stamper, Benton Flippen, Charlie Poole, Owen "Snake" Chapman, Clyde Davenport, Bruce Greene, Rafe Stefanini, Gid Tanner, Brad Leftwich, Roan Mountain Hilltoppers, John Salyer, Bob Townsend, Freight Hoppers and that feller with the hat -- Joe Newberry.
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Genre: Old Time
The Dogtrotters recently played the Firefly Cofee House in Fort Wayne, Ind. Here we kickoff with the tune called "A Bottle of Wine and a Ginger Cake." Afterward, fiddle player Gilbert Sewell of Pikeville, Tenn. talks about Blaine Smith. I'm playing this G tune on a Fairbanks No. 7 Whyte Laydie, although the recording does not give it justice.
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Bob White from Huntsville, Ala., is a rocket scientist and also one of my favorite fiddle players. He's a virtual walking library of tunes and always generous in sharing his knowledge. Strangely enough, at this past Breakin' Up Winter was the first time he and I sat down to record some tunes together. We're sitting outside in March in shirtsleeve weather near Lebanon, Tenn.
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The only Southern fiddle player that this Alabama banjo player has yet found in Northeast Indiana is Terry Thacker, a native of Kentucky and cousin to the late great Art Stamper. Terry lives 30 minutes north of me in Kendallville. Here we're playing a tune that some of you might think of as Buffalo Gals. But Terry and I are here to educate you. LOL. Fades in to start.
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Size: 3,693kb, uploaded 10/3/2009 8:09:19 AM
Genre: Old Time
Recorded at the Indiana Fiddlers Gathering in June 09. I learned this tune from Bob Townsend, a great fiddle player from Coalmont, Tenn. Bob was among a group of friends from Tennessee who drove many hours to attend this event.
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Size: 2,637kb, uploaded 12/7/2009 12:04:50 PM
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We call ourselves Colonel Terry and the Jake Leg Wobblers. Here we're playing an old Kentucky fiddle tune in G called "Bacon Rind" at the Firefly Coffee House in Fort Wayne, Ind. Terry Thacker is playing fiddle, Matthew Katinsky on guitar and me playing a fretless Enoch tradesman on this particular tune. Terry was recently named an official Kentucky colonel by the state's governor.
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Size: 3,232kb, uploaded 12/2/2008 8:19:36 AM
Genre: Old Time
This is an original tune that I came up with while watching Alabama football on TV. What a storied season this has been. aEAC#E on Bart Reiter, No. 240. Oh, just one more thing: Roll Tide!
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Size: 3,863kb, uploaded 10/3/2009 4:45:42 PM
Genre: Old Time
This tune was a staple of Kentucky fiddle player Hiram Stamper. A fellowship of friends did it justice at the Indiana Fiddlers' Gathering in June 09.
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Size: 9,443kb, uploaded 6/28/2011 3:51:23 PM
Genre: Old Time
Recorded while busking at the Dallas Farmers Market on Saturday, June 25, 2011. You'll hear me thanking those folks who are tipping. Not quite happy with the quality of the sound recording ... or my singing.
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Size: 2,727kb, uploaded 10/3/2009 8:15:56 AM
Genre: Old Time
As so many of my field recordings really highlight the playing of others, such is the case here. Steve Overby of Scottsboro, Alabama, was among a group of friends that traveled to attend the Indiana Fiddlers' Gathering. He is playing a tune here on the fiddle that I don't know, but I soon got the hang of it. I thought you might like this Clyde Davenport tune.
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Size: 3,588kb, uploaded 6/17/2010 5:47:07 AM
Genre: Old Time
A host of musician friends spent the weekend at my home a few weeks ago and we had a ball. Most people think of Black-Eyed Suzie as a D tune, but this version. played in my front driveway, is in A. Barb Zavon and Mike Eberle are playing fiddle. Mark Ward and I are playing banjo. Rick Donahoe is on guitar. I call them the Ohio Players because they all hail from the Buckeye state.
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Size: 1,854kb, uploaded 9/19/2008 3:21:55 PM
Genre: Old Time
This song is dedicated to my friends in Alabama, which I will always consider home. Played in G out in the front yard with the poophounds on a no-name 1920s "catalog banjo," the kind most Southerners could afford. Fair warning: I'm singing on this one.
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Size: 4,428kb, uploaded 8/2/2008 5:55:29 AM
Genre: Old Time
This recording was made at the Indiana Fiddler's Gathering in late June 2008. Norbert Sarsfield from Iowa is playing fiddle and I'm playing my Ramsey fretless. Norbert plays in an old-time string band called the Gilded Bats. aEAC#E.
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Size: 2,425kb, uploaded 12/21/2008 7:30:03 AM
Genre: Old Time
I wish you could hear Jackie Burgess' fiddle playing better on this tune, cause he's really great. He's a transplanted Alabamian now living in North Carolina and we are playing outside a dorm building at Mars Hill in June 2008. The slapping sound is my flip-flop. Ramsey fretless, aEACE.
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Size: 2,088kb, uploaded 1/20/2010 5:56:05 AM
Genre: Old Time
Recorded Jan. 15, 2010 at the Firefire Coffee House in Fort Wayne, Ind. Gilbert Sewell on fiddle; Matthew Katinsky on guitar and I'm playing my Jason Burns banjo. Another Kentucky fiddle tune in the key of D.
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Size: 4,141kb, uploaded 10/3/2009 8:36:23 AM
Genre: Old Time
I wish I could be certain who is playing lead fiddle on this tune recorded at the Indiana Fiddlers' Gathering in June 09. I believe it's either Barb Zavon or Mark Ward, newfound friends from Cincinatti. I miss a few notes here and there but didn't ruin it. LOL.
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Size: 2,496kb, uploaded 10/4/2009 3:54:22 PM
Genre: Old Time
Stephen Bland of Rochester, NY., is playing fiddle. Rick Donahoe is playing his old Kalamazoo guitar and I'm playing my Burns banjo on this field recording amongst the mud, the blood and the beer at Clifftop 09.
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Size: 1,839kb, uploaded 3/29/2010 6:10:10 PM
Genre: Old Time
Recorded at Firefly Coffee House in Fort Wayne, Ind. on March 19, 2010. Terry Thacker on fiddle; John Long on guitar and me on the banjo. We call ourselves Colonel Terry & His Jake Leg Wobblers. This tune is well over 100 years old and may have originated in Alabama. I played it last week with friends in Georgia.
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Size: 2,892kb, uploaded 12/13/2008 8:27:45 AM
Genre: Old Time
This song is a favorite of Charlie Acuff, an 84-year-old fiddle player who lives near Knoxville, Tenn. I heard him play and sing it in March 2008 at Breakin' Up Winter. Charlie is a cousin of the late great Roy Acuff.
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Size: 1,461kb, uploaded 10/12/2008 12:58:44 PM
Genre: Old Time
It was just me and the poophounds out in the detached garage where this was recorded on a glorious fall day here in Indiana. Played in G on an no-name 1920s "catalog banjo."
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Size: 1,648kb, uploaded 3/13/2009 5:13:00 PM
Genre: Old Time
On our last of three nights at Breakin' Up Winter, I went over to the cabin of Bob Townsend and Steve Overby. Bob is a great fiddle player in the tradition of the Cumberland Plateau, and Steve was at one time his student. Here Bob, of South Pittsburg, Tenn., and I play a tune that probably orginated in southeastern Tennessee. Played in G.
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Size: 1,726kb, uploaded 1/19/2010 12:46:47 PM
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Performed and recorded live at the Firefly Coffee House in Fort Wayne, Ind., on Jan. 15, 2010. This is a Clyde Davenport tune, and on this particular night we were calling ourselves The Dogtrotters. Gilbert Sewell, of Pikeville, Tenn., was playing fiddle; Matthew Katinsky was playing guitar and I'm playing clawhammer on a Fairbanks No. 7 Whyte Laydie.
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Size: 4,466kb, uploaded 3/27/2009 6:44:25 PM
Genre: Old Time
On my last night at Breakin' Up Winter, I found myself in the cabin of fiddlers Bob Townsend and Steve Overby. Gil Sewell was there. Heck, there were probably six fiddle players in the room playing this tune and I was the only banjer player. Yessir, I was in second heaven. Bob is singing this interesting version of an old classic.
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Size: 6,109kb, uploaded 1/1/2011 8:49:32 PM
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My friend Gilbert Sewell, a fiddle player from Pikeville, Tenn., was on top of his game when he kicked off this tune at the Indiana Fiddlers Gathering in June 2010. I'm supporting on banjo and we're both singing. Our jam drew an appreciative crowd.
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Size: 1,410kb, uploaded 1/22/2009 4:04:10 PM
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Also known as "Give the Fiddler a Dram,' this tune was a favorite of Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers and was released in 1926. Some of the floating lyrics might suggest unionist loyalties in parts of the southern Appalachians. Most fiddle players play the tune in G, but I'm playing it in F for singing purposes.
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Size: 3,571kb, uploaded 7/12/2009 7:23:38 PM
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Recorded sometime between June 26 and 28, 2009 at the Indiana Fiddlers' Gathering, Battle Ground, Ind. I didn't have the lyrics memorized, hence "words I don't know."
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Size: 1,939kb, uploaded 1/18/2010 3:36:12 PM
Genre: Old Time
Recorded Jan. 16, 2010 at Firefly Coffee House in Fort Wayne, Ind. and performed by The Dogtrotters -- Gil Sewell on fiddle, Matthew Katinsky on guitar and me on clawhammer banjo.
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Size: 1,674kb, uploaded 1/31/2009 9:09:16 AM
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When Wade Mainer and the Sons of the Mountaineers played at the White House in 1941, President Roosevelt requested this song. I was reminded of it last night after watching a three-part interview with Wade by David Holt on YouTube. Wade performs the song at the age of 97 in his distinctive two-finger, up-pick style. He is over 100 now and we owe him our gratitude for the music he's left with us.
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Size: 3,204kb, uploaded 11/14/2008 6:27:22 PM
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Not sure if I had ever played this D tune before playing it at the home of Gil and Dianne Sewell in the Sequatchie Valley in Tennessee over the Labor Day weekend. "Big Gary" Scheufler of Sewanee, Tenn., is playing fiddle and I am playing my Ramsey fretless at Gil-Fest, a old-time music party.
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Size: 4,175kb, uploaded 6/7/2010 5:43:43 PM
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I had an old-time music party at my home this past weekend. Six musician friends from out of state stayed with us from Friday to Sunday and we had a blast, staying up until the wee hours jamming. We recorded this tune out in the driveway on Sunday afternoon, shortly before my guests left.
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Size: 1,832kb, uploaded 12/28/2008 1:41:54 PM
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I've always played this tune in D, but realized that I couldn't sing worth a lick in that key. So I'm singing and playing it in A. The bonus for listeners comes at the very end when my fifth string pops. I thought you all might want to hear the train wreck.
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Size: 2,916kb, uploaded 12/28/2008 7:41:42 AM
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One of the many Liza Janes tunes, this one could go by Goodbye Liza Jane, but I'm singing it as Get Along Liza Jane. I first heard this version from Gerry Milnes, with the Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, WV. I'm playing my no-name catalog banjo with formica fingerboard.
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Size: 2,501kb, uploaded 9/15/2008 6:47:48 PM
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Steve Overby, of Scottsboro, Alabama, is playing the fiddle and I am following along on my Ramsey fretless at an old-time music party near Pikeville, Tenn. on Aug. 30, 2008. I had heard Steve play the tune for the first time earlier in the day and corralled him into playing and recording it with me. The aforementioned party -- Gil-fest -- is a hoot and named after the host, Gil Sewell, who is one fine fella.
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Size: 1,275kb, uploaded 3/4/2010 11:16:20 AM
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I may be called on to play this tune with a fiddle-playing friend at my church. First heard the tune from a Tommy Jarrell recording. Later versions came from the Toast String Stretchers and the late Greg Hooven. It's got wonderful lyrics but too hard for me to sing in A, which is what I am playing it in.
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Size: 1,579kb, uploaded 11/22/2008 5:18:43 PM
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I re-recorded because the first time around, it sounded too much like Handsome Molly. The tune comes from Frank Proffitt of Reese, NC., whose grandfather chose to "join the boys in blue" as did many in the mountain South. John W. Proffitt crossed the mountain and enlisted in the 13th Tenn. Cavalry, Co. M, US. aEAC#E on Bart Reiter, No. 240.
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Size: 1,442kb, uploaded 12/31/2009 7:52:12 AM
Genre: Old Time
Here's a tune that I was unfamiliar with and had never played until Terry Thacker pulled it out of his hat while we were at the Firefly Coffee House on Dec. 5. Terry started playing it on fiddle and we (Matthew Katinsky on guitar and me on banjo) jumped right in. A very catchy tune. We call ourselves Colonel Terry and the Jake Leg Wobblers.
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Size: 2,718kb, uploaded 3/18/2013 11:34:32 AM
Genre: Old Time
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Gold Watch and Chain (CH)
I've always liked this old song so I recorded it with small handheld a little while ago. Alvin Pleasant "A.P." Carter and his wife, Sara Dougherty Carter, recorded "Gold Watch and Chain," a song about love lost, at a Camden, N.J., studio in 1933 shortly after they had separated.
The original Carter Family group consisted of A.P. (1891–1960), Sara (1898–1979), and his sister-in-law Maybelle Addington Carter (1909–1978). All three were born and raised in southwestern Virginia, where they were immersed in mountain gospel music and shape note singing. A.P. Carter probably rewrote this song was it was first recorded in 1929 by Ephraim Woodie & The Henpecked Husbands.
The Carter Family recorded between 1927 and 1956, and were the first vocal group to become country music stars. I'm playing and singing this song in the key of A.
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Size: 2,701kb, uploaded 5/29/2009 5:00:25 PM
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Born in 1925 in Adams County, Indiana, fiddle player Francis Geels grew up with music in his home. On both sides of his family, old-time music and country square dancing were weekly events. He played for house and barn dances for many years until country square dancing began to wane. He and his wife have 17 children, 39 grandchildren and about 20 great-grandchildren. He plays on the same fiddle he bought from Montgomery Ward catalog before he was married; he has had to replace 3 fingerboards over the years. I am priviledged to have played this tune with him at a bluegrass festival on Memorial Day weekend in Kendallville, Ind.
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by FretlessinTexas, written by Charlie Poole
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Size: 2,799kb, uploaded 3/13/2013 5:48:25 PM
Genre: Old Time
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Goodbye Booze (CH)
Now I believe that Charlie Poole (March 22, 1892 - May 21, 1931) wrote this song but I am not absolutely sure of that. That title is ironic as Charlie drank himself to death after learning that he won a contract in Hollywood to play backup music for a film. At least, that is the story that I've heard.
What is clear is that clear that Charlie was a fast living and hard drinking fellow. Textile mill worker, semi-pro ballplayer, and hell-raiser supreme, Poole was giant of American roots music with his innovate banjo playing and for heading the North Carolina Ramblers. He is a favorite of mine.
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I don't drink and I don't smoke and I don't wear no greasy coat.
Recorded March 2008 at Breakin' Up Winter, Cedars of Lebanon State Park, Tenn., March 2008.
Gil Sewell from Pikeville, Tenn. is playing fiddle and I'm on a Bart Reiter No. 240, made in 1987. aEAC#E.
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Size: 2,767kb, uploaded 2/16/2010 3:31:03 AM
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Recorded Feb. 12 at the One World Cafe in Fort Wayne, Ind. Terry Thacker is playing fiddle; the Rev. John Long is on guitar, and I'm playing clawhammer banjo. We call ourselves Colonel Terry and his Jake Leg Wobblers.
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Gil Sewell from Pikeville, Tenn., is playing fiddle and I am playing my Bart Reiter, No. 240. This A tune is totally different from the Grey Eagle that I have heard played at the Indiana Fiddler's Gathering. We recorded this tune at Breakin' Up Winter, an old-time music event held at Cedars of Lebanon State Park, Tenn., in March 2008. Gil is a great friend.
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Size: 2,681kb, uploaded 1/18/2010 3:48:28 PM
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Performed and recorded by The Dogtrotters on Jan. 16, 2010 at the Firefly Coffee House in Fort Wayne, Ind. Gilbert Sewell played fiddle; Matthew Katinsky played guitar and I played clawhammer banjo and tried to sing a bit.
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Size: 4,683kb, uploaded 7/7/2009 7:21:04 PM
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A tune from Kentucky fiddle player Ed Haley. Legend has it that he lost a child at 4:30 in the morning, hence the name of the tune. Played with friends at the Indiana Fiddler's Gathering.
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Size: 4,000kb, uploaded 12/30/2008 4:31:43 PM
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A lot great musicians recorded this song back in the 1920s, including one of my favorites, Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers. While I've got better banjos, I'm starting to think that my no-name "catalog" banjo with formica fingerboard, probably circa 1920s, is my favorite for singing purposes.
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On the night of Dec. 30, 1862, two armies camped across Stones River from each other near Murphreesboro, Tenn. Brass bands for both armies serenaded the troops. Toward the end of the evening, the union band struck up Home Sweet Home and the confederate band jumped on it, with both bands playing the tune together. The story goes there wasn't a dry eye in either camp. The slaughter would begin the next morning. I'm playing this melancholy song on a S.S. Stewart Thoroughbred, circa 1895.
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This tune has had a long history in America and has proved enduringly popular with fiddlers in many regions. It is an American 'old-time' version of the Scottish "Miss McCloud's/Miss McLeod's Reel." Known in parts of Virginia and Tennessee as "Hop Light Ladies." Steve Overby, of Scottsboro, Ala., is playing fiddle and I am playing my fretless Ramsey at a party in Pikeville, Tenn.
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Size: 2,688kb, uploaded 4/4/2009 1:54:28 PM
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I don't have to tell you that these are some hard times we're living in right now, especially for those who have lost their jobs. This song laments hard times. Written in 1929 by Blind Alfred Reed.
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Size: 1,772kb, uploaded 4/10/2009 8:40:57 PM
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Also known as "The Drunkard's Doom," this song extolls the evil of alcohol in a tale of death and destruction. It was recorded by G.B. Grayson and Henry Whitter in 1929. I'm straining on the high notes, but somehow still managed to get the words out.
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This tune in the key of A comes from Owen "Snake" Chapman of Pike County, Kentucky. Chapman said the title comes from a story that a farmer taught his slave to throw rocks at someone named Andy. Recorded Jan. 15 at Firefly Coffee House in Fort Wayne, Ind. Gilbert Sewell on fiddle; Matthew Katinsky on guitar and I'm playing a Jason Burns banjo.
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I'm playing my no-name "catalog banjo" with a formica fingerboard. I figure this banjo was made about the same time as the earliest known recording of Ida Red, by Fiddlin' Powers & Family in 1924. The Santa Clause lyrics come from Tommy Jarrell of Toast, NC.
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Also known as "Jim Shanks" or "Jimmy Shanks," this A tune is from southern Kentucky and was collected by Bruce Greene in the early 1970s. Gilbert Sewell of Pikeville, Tenn. is playing fiddle; Matthew Katinsky is on guitar and I'm playing my Jason Burns banjo. Recorded Jan. 15 at Firefly Coffee House in Fort Wayne, Ind.
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Size: 2,199kb, uploaded 12/10/2008 6:15:19 PM
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Jackie Burgess is a well-known fiddle player in Alabama and North Carolina, where he now lives. I had the pleasure to meet and play music with him at Mars Hill College in June. A very nice man and great musician. Mars Hill is pretty little town snuggled in the mountains about 18 miles from Asheville, NC. (aDADE)
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Named presumably after the abolitionist who stormed the United States Arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1859, and who was hanged for treason. There is some thought Brown's march was his march to the scaffold. Ed Benner of Goshen, Indiana, is playing fiddle on this G tune. I forget what banjo I'm playing. LOL.
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One payday, in a crap game at Shawnee Coal Company's camp (in what is today Eckman, WV), John Hardy killed a fellow worker. While awaiting execution in jail, he composed this ballad, which he later sang on the scaffold. He also advised all young men to shun liquor, gambling and bad company. He was hanged in McDowell County, January 19, 1894. I'm playing an SS Stewart Thoroughbred, circa 1895.
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Father and son, Charles and Tim Higgins of Whitwell, Tenn., made the long drive to play music with us at the Indiana Fiddlers Gathering this past weekend. Charles is playing guitar, Tim is having a ball playing my resonator guitar and I'm playing clawhammer banjo on John Henry.
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Fiddle player Terry Thacker and I, along with a few other old-time music insurgents, formed a small jamming cabal at a bluegrass festival in Kendallville, Ind., this past weekend where this was recorded. Terry is native of East Kentucky and knows a lot of good fiddle tunes from that region. This tune comes from Owen "Snake" Chapman.
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Mark Ward is playing the fiddle and Barb Zavon is playing guitar. I'm playing a banjo made by Mark, who also makes excellent fiddles. Recorded April 2 at their home in Cincinatti. Bruce Greene recorded Casey Helton of Floyd County, Kentucky, playing this tune on Jan. 5, 1977.
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Here's Jackie Burgess, a great fiddle player in North Carolina, and me playing this Round Peak favorite at Mars Hill College in June 2008. I'm playing a fretless Ramsey on this one. The slapping sound is my flip-flop sandal. aEAC#E.
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"Katy Cline" is an adaptation of "Kitty Clyde," written and composed by L.V.H. Crosby and published in 1853. First recorded by the Monroe Brothers in 1937. aEAC#E; Bart Reiter No. 240.
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Gary Scheufler of Sewanee, Tenn., is playing fiddle and I'm helping out on my fearless fretless Ramsey at a private party near Pikeville, Tenn., during the Labor Day weekend. Hosts Gil and Diane Sewell are fine folks.This is a Clyde Davenport tune, played in G. Earlier in the summer, Gary played guitar, Gil played fiddle and I played banjo at Mars Hill, NC., where we dubbed ourselves the Tennessee Dogtrotters.
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My friend Matthew Katinsky came over to the house today and we recorded this song on the first take. Matthew is playing guitar and I'm playing an old Stewart Thoroughbred with Nygut strings in the key of F. I first heard this tune from Doc and Merle Watson.
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A traditional three-part fiddle tune that comes from Alabama. I'm playing it clawhammer style on a resonator guitar with Mike Eberle on fiddle. Because I'm not playing this tune on a banjo, but rather playing it in a banjo tuning (aEAC#E) and clawhammer style, I'm not sure how this will be received here on the Hangout.
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Sometimes a fiddle tune just falls into your lap and you know how to play it without ever having played it. Such is the case with this tune. Keith Loveland, a talented fiddler from Sautee, Ga. , kicked it off and within moments I was playing along like I knew the tune forever. Keith and his wife Ginny were among those who camped and played music at Sewell-Fest in Pikeville, Tenn., where this was recorded on Aug. 30, 2008. I am playing my old standby, a fretless Ramsey.
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The first recorded version of this song was in 1930 by Clarence "Tom' Ashley. Little Sadie may have been a prostitute.
"I woke next morning 'bout half past nine,
The buggies and the hacks all (swarmed?) in line,
The pimps and the gamblers all standing around,
They're gonna take Sadie to the burying ground."
This verse does not appear in Ashley's 1963 recording with Doc Watson.
eBEAB on an SS Stewart Thoroughbred, circa 1895.
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This is J.P. Fraley's version of Liza Jane. Notice that it differs from the West Virginia version as played by Burl Hammonds. Ed Benner of Goshen, Ind., is playing fiddle and I'm playing a Mike Dawson banjo (made locally) at a contra dance in Fort Wayne. Fades in.
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This version of Liza Jane comes from Burl Hammonds of West Virginia. Norbert Sarsfield from Iowa is playing fiddle and I'm playing a fretless Ramsey at the Indiana Fiddlers Gathering in June. We played a different version of Liza Jane when I lived in Alabama. We called it "Kentucky Liza Jane" and it came from J.P. Fraley. I just named five states in my convoluted explanation. LOL.
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Hobart Smith, J.E. Mainer and His Mountaineers, Wade Mainer and the Sons of the Mountaineers, the Watson family, the Roan Mountain Hilltoppers, and the Stanely Brothers all covered this traditional song about what lies beyond the grave. It has that mountain mounful sound that I like so much. I play it in G on a no-name "catalog banjo."
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Recorded Aug. 30, 2008 at "Sewell-fest" -- a two-day frolick at the home of Gil Sewell of Pikeville, Tenn. Steve Overby of Scottsboro, Ala. is playing great fiddle and I'm doing my best to support with a Ramsey fretless. aEAC#E.
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Size: 2,149kb, uploaded 12/10/2008 5:58:49 PM
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My friend Gil Sewell of Pikeville, Tenn., is playing the fiddle and I am playing banjo on this tune, which sounds like the children's tune, "This Old Man." But Gil calls this tune "Mississippi Sawyer in A," which sounds nothing like the familiar standard Mississippi Sawyer, which is a D tune. So I am calling this a mystery tune and hoping some listeners have an answer.
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This is what happens when you are home with a summer cold. Don't worry, I won't quit my day job for singing. aDADE on a fretless Ramsey.
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A song about a storied tradition in the Southern Appalachians. My mother's people came from East Tennessee, my father's people from western Pennsylvania, scene of the Whiskey Rebellion. When I was back in Old Tennessee in March, playing music with friends, we had some shine in a mason jar circulating around the campfire. I remember feeling warm and happy. LOL. fCFGC.
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Here's a fun tune that I recorded with friends in Cincinatti last weekend. Mark Ward is playing fiddle. Barb Zavon is playing guitar and I'm on the old banjer. My apologies for the recording ending abruptly. I am playing a very nice banjo that Mark made. He also makes fiddles.
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I first heard this song from a live recording in 1967 of Doc Watson, Clint Howard and Fiddlin' Fred Price. It's an album entitled "Old-Timey Concert" and well worth getting. aDADE on a locally made Mike Dawson Banjo. Fades in and out.
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Also known as "Doney Gal," this tune, played in the key of A, was first recorded in 1939 for the Library of Congress from the playing of fiddler Charles Long, of Quitman, Clarke County, Mississippi. It has lyrics and eventually I'll buck up and record another version singing them.
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Kentucky's official state song, it was written by Stephen Foster in 1850 and published three years later. The lyrics reflect love of home and family. Foster wrote the song after a brief stay at the home of his cousins, the Rowans, in Bardstown, Kentucky. I'm playing an SS Stewart Thoroughbred, circa 1895.
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Recorded with friends during a jam at the Indiana Fiddlers' Gathering 2009. Three fiddle playing friends from down South made the long drive up to Battle Ground, Ind. -- Steve Overby, Scottsboro, Ala.; Bob Townsend, Coalmont, Tenn.; and Gil Sewell, Pikeville, Tenn. Thanks guys.
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I've lot of roots in Chattanooga, Tenn., although I didn't lived there much. My mother, brother and uncle were born there. My grandfather, a captain in the Chattanooga Fire Department, lived most of his life there, as did my grandmother. They've all passed onto that other shore. So while I have no kin left in Chattanooga, I do have musician friends there. Bob Townsend of nearby South Pittsburgh, Tenn., is playing fiddle and I'm helping out on banjer on this G tune.
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I first heard this tune from a recording by the late great Kentucky fiddle player Art Stamper. I recorded the tune with Terry Thacker, a native of southeastern Kentucky and a cousin to Art Stamper. Terry apparently has a lot of fiddle players in his family and feels that fiddle tunes are in his DNA. Art's autograph graces the back of Terry's fiddle. Terry lives in Kendallville, Ind., about 30 minutes from my home. I am playing a newly-acquired banjo made by Mike Dawson, who also lives nearby in Northeast Indiana. aEAC#E
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Here's Col. Terry and the Jake Leg Wobblers playing Old Kentucky Whiskey at Firefly Coffee House in Fort Wayne, Ind. on Dec. 5. I don't think the coffee house patrons knew or understood what hit them. Terry Thacker on fiddle, Matthew Katinsky on guitar and I'm the Wobbler on banjo. Fades in.
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I learned Old Yeller Dog Come Trottin' Through the Meeting House from Charlie Acuff, an 88-year-old fiddle player from Knoxville, Tenn. He was a featured artist at Breakin' Up Winter, an old-time music event in March 2008 at Cedars of Lebanon State Park, Tenn. Charlie learned the tune from his father. Old Yeller Dog was originally a minstrel tune published in 1858 as "Down in Alabam" or "Aint I Glad I Got Out De Wilderness." You may think of it as the "Old Gray Mare." Played in G on a Fairbanks Whyte Ladie.
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From Ceolas: "The title of this popular tune comes from lyrics of a widely known minstrel song of the 1800's. In the early history of blackface minstrels, Colonel T. Allston Brown stated, "the tune of 'Zip Coon' was taken from a rough jig dance called 'Natchez Under the Hill,' where the boatmen, river pirates, gamblers and courtesans congregated for the enjoyment of a regular hoe-down, in the old time." Steve Overby is playing fiddle and I'm playing a Ramsey fretless. Fades in.
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I'm singing in a lower key of f while playing a no-name, 1920s "catalog" banjo. Conflicting sources on words and music. One source claims John R. Sweeney and William J. Kirkpatrick, from "On Joyful Wing, A Book of Praise and Song," published in 1886. Another claim is that Dr. Horatious Bonar, of Edinburg, Scotland, wrote the words of this hymn, set to music in 1891 by Ira D. Sankey. What is clear is that it is common domain.
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Steve Overby of Scottsboro, Ala., is leading off a fiddle tune that came from Oscar Overturf of Grundy County, Tenn., who died in 1988 at the age of 88. We have since referred to this unnamed tune as Oscar's No. 11. I'm playing my trusty Burns banjo. Recorded at the Indiana Fiddlers Gathering, June 26, 2010.
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Mark Ward and Barb Zavon from Cincinnati are lead fiddle on this tune recorded at the Indiana Fiddlers' Gathering in June 09. Met them there and have since become fast friends. Like me, they're also fugitives from justice. Mark makes high quality fiddles and banjos.
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My good friend Gil Sewell of Pikeville, Tenn., is playing fiddle and I'm screaching and playing my Bart Reiter on this A tune. Recorded at Breakin' Up Winter in Lebanon, Tenn., in March 2008. Tommy Jarrell's version remains unsurpassed in my humble opinion.
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At a late night jam at Breakin' Up Winter, I was so impressed with Gretchen Priest-May's fiddle playing, that I sought her out the next day to play this G tune with me. Gretchen and husband Tim May have opened the Fiddle & Pick music school in a 100-plus-year-old building that they restored in Pegram, Tenn. Good people.
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A "primal tune," according to Mike Eberle, who is playing lead fiddle on "Pretty Little Gal" during an outdoor jam at my home on Sunday. Barb Zavon is also playing fiddle. Rick Donahoe is playing guitar. Mark Ward and I are drooling with our banjos.
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Tricia Spencer of Lawrence, Kan., plays fiddle in a stringband called appropriately The Prairie Acre. But she left the Great Plains for a trip to Clifftop, WV., where we recorded this very pretty tune from John Hartford.
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In a few days, I'll be down in Tennessee playing old-time music with friends at an event called Breakin' Up Winter. So I've been brushing up on some tunes that I know I will be playing and this is one of them. FYI, my great-grandfather, Thomas Elkins, 2nd Tennessee Cavalry, Co. G, was captured at Big Hill, Ky. in July 1863 in what could be termed a "rebel raid."
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Steve Overby, from Scottsboro, Ala., is playing fiddle on this haunting tune and I'm accompanying on my fretless Ramsey. We both survived "Gil-fest," an old-time music party at the home of Gil and Dianne Sewell in PIkeville, Tenn., over the Labor Day weekend. Fades in.
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Genre: Traditional
I first heard this old minstrel song, which dates back to 1846, in the 1976 movie The Outlaw Josey Wales, which still remains a favorite. I'm playing a minstrel banjo and attempting to sing in a minstrel style. Fooled 'em again, Josey.
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I learned this one from Terry Thacker, a Kentucky fiddle player and friend who attended the Indiana Fiddlers Gathering 2009, where we recorded this tune at a jam at my campsite.
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Recorded at Clifftop 09 and nary a one of us was completely clean and sober. Well, there might been one or two.
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I think I have more fun at Gil-Fest, an old-time music party held at the home of Gil and Dianne Sewell in Pikeville, Tenn., than any festival I've attended. Here's Steve Overby on fiddle and me playing a fretless Ramsey.
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This folk-blues song written by Walter Vinson and Lonnie Chatmon of the Mississippi Sheiks, a popular country blues band of the 1930s. I think it works well with clawhammer banjo. I'm playing a SS Stewart Thoroughbred, circa 1895.
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Bill Monroe wrote this gospel song, which I attempt to sing. I play in G on a Fairbanks Tuba-phone.
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Stever Overby from Scottsboro, Ala., is playing the fiddle and singing this old favorite at Gil-fest, a two-day frolic on Gil and Dianne Sewell's farm near Pikeville, Tenn. Recorded Aug. 30, 2008. I'm playing my fearless fretless.
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Size: 7,101kb, uploaded 8/5/2009 6:05:24 PM
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Recorded at Clifftop, I am the only banjo player sitting among a group of maybe five fiddle players. I soon realize this and start playing louder and the Burns cuts through just fine. We are a boisterous, happy lot. Near the end, my banjo playings stops as I jump up and buck dance.
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Genre: Old Time
Woke up one morning and started playing this tune, not knowing the name of it or where I heard it. But my hangout pals quickly informed me it was Spotted Pony. Played in D on an early Bart Reiter, No. 240.
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This tune or song has long been associated with Texas swing and Bob Wills, who wrote it. But we are giving it an old-time spin in this field recording at the Indiana Fiddlers Gathering in June 09. Love the bass lines being played on an old kalamazoo guitar by Rick Donahoe from Yellow Springs, Ohio. Gil Sewell, a fiddle player from Pikeville, Tenn., brought this tune to the party.
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This fiddle tune comes from Blount County, Alabama, about 40 miles north of Birmingham. I learned it from fiddle players in Birmingham. aDADE on a fretless Ramsey.
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Size: 3,759kb, uploaded 12/11/2008 5:19:09 PM
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Gil Sewell of Pikeville, Tenn,, is an irrascible old coot and I am proud to call him my friend. When he plays fiddle, he literally jumps around in his chair. This tune was recorded in March 2008 at Breakin' Up Winter, an event sponsored by the Nashville Old-Time String Band Association. I'm playing an early Bart Reiter No. 240. aEAC#E
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This song was written by the late Don Stover of West Virginia. I learned it from Gerry Milnes of the Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, WV. Played in G on a Fairbanks Whyte Laydie.
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O Lord you know I have no friend like you.
If Heaven's not my home then Lord what will I do? The angels beckon me from Heaven's open door. And I can't feel at home in this world anymore. Fairbanks Tubaphone in G. Author unknown. First known recording in 1924 by Stovepipe No. 1. (Sam Jones)
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Well, a part of me feels kinda silly posting this, and maybe it is. But my cat Thumper died on Sunday after living with me for 18 years. I came to love that old cat, and she came to tolerate me. I miss her and so I made up this tune to keep her memory alive. My pal Kirk Hunter is on fiddle. He indulged me and I appreciated that. Here's the tune in the key of A.
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Size: 5,430kb, uploaded 12/12/2008 5:30:43 PM
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This is an original tune that I came up with while at a bed and breakfast in Nashville, Indiana, on Nov. 29th, which just so happens to have been my birthday. My wife, Tera, fooled me into going to Brown County on the premise of seeing a man about a banjo. She had reservations for the B&B and we had a great weekend. aEAC#E on a Bart Reiter made in 1987.
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