Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – Week 1

A great tune from Sam Hacker, a little-known fiddler from West Virginia, recorded about 1947.

Jack of Diamonds

demo by Paul & Steve

NB: right click the red to download and save link (sound file), or click the arrow to play.

Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler by Paul | June 26, 2009 | Comments (2)


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  1. Cynthia on June 29, 2009 9:10 pm

    If you’re interested in reading more about Sam Hacker, you can find a few paragraphs about him in Play of a Fiddle by Gerald Milnes. Use this link http://bit.ly/eXeMG and navigate to the bottom of p. 31. (The book mentions that Sam died in 1976 and I think that’s probably a typo. My guess, based on this death record http://bit.ly/IKaTy is that he actually died in 1952 at the age of 76 which means that the recording was made about five years before his death.)

  2. Paul on July 4, 2009 12:32 pm

    I agree. Nice contribution.

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