Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 5
Is it a march? Is it a song? IDK, but it’s fun to play.
Old Indiana, Bob Holt of Ava, Missouri
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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 4
A Steve Rosen original
Nail That Catfish to the Tree played by the Volo Bogtrotters
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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 3
A quadrille tune — a “second change” — from Michigan
Right and Left Six played by Les Raber of Hastings, Michigan in 1981
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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – weeks 1&2
Week 1 was a tune in D from Lotus Dickey. He learned it from Albert & Effie Daugherty when he was in high school in Paoli, Indiana back in about 1931. It was also out on record then, as a song by the Pickard Family.
Bye-Bye, My Honey (I’m Gone) – slow
Week 2 was another tune in D. This one was made up circa 1980 by a friend of ours, Peter Lippincott. He’s a musician and square dance caller from St. Louis, now living in Arkansas.
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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 6
A hornpipey tune in D. Collected by Garry Harrison and included in Dear Old Illinois.
Rush and the Pepper played by Jesse James Abbott of Toledo, Illinois, circa 1975
Plus a version played by his son, Glen Abbott at a square dance in LaPlace, Illinois, 1983.
(First tune in the right hand column; in a medley with Eighth of January.)
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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – weeks 4&5
Week 4 – Run Down Boot – in D, from Pete Priest of Mattoon, Illinois
Run Down Boot by Garry Harrison
Week 5 – Saturday Night Breakdown – in C
Saturday Night Breakdown Leake County Revelers from Mississippi [link to iTunes store]
Saturday Night Breakdown medium
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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 3
As always, we’re current and topical . . .
The Story of the Mississippi by Ernest V. Stoneman, 1927
[preview on iTunes]
The Story of the Mississippi by the Volo Bogtrotters, 1996.
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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 2
The original recording of Seneca Square Dance by Fiddlin’ Sam Long from 1926. [iTunes store preview]
Seneca Square Dance by the Bunkhouse Orchestra
medium tempo (fiddle only)
Arthur Smith’s classic song, Adieu False Heart from 1938. [iTunes store preview]
Adieu False Heart by the WAZO County Warblers with the Fly Boys
Here are the separate voices
medium tempo fiddle part & harmony
Click arrows to listen or right-click highlighted title to download and save.
Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Paul | May 8, 2011 | Comments (0)
Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 1
A tune in G we learned from Mel Durham, a native of Wayne County, Illinois who moved to Long Beach, California in 1948. Mel learned it from his father, also named Mel. They also called the tune Whoa Mule, Till I Get Your Bridle On. The recording of Mel was made in Malibu, California at a dance weekend in 1994.
Old Johnny Booker Mel Durham with Tom Sauber – banjo
medium tempo fiddle version (from a couple years ago, a tiny bit different)
Just added:
Steve & Paul’s duet
Note: meet in room B6 next week.
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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 6
Won’t Get Drunk No More played by the Indian Creek Delta Boys
Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Paul | April 10, 2011 | Comments (0)
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