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Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Tue) – week 3

A couple of tunes with some nice bow-rocking/shuffle pattern opportunities. Both are from John Salyer.

Jack Wilson in D

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The Speed of the Plow in A (cross-tuning)

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Filed under: Fiddle 4, Paul Tyler by Paul | March 17, 2010 | Comments (0)

Old Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 2

Charlie Acuff called it the “Old Yellow Dog went trottin’ through the meetin’ house.” But the tune dates back to the mid-1800s and was known variously as “The Old Gray Horse came tearin’ through the wilderness” and as a campaign song, “Old Abe Lincoln came tearin’ outa the wilderness.”

Charlie Acuff plays Old Yellow Dog, with John Harford on the banjo.

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Filed under: Old Time Ensemble, Paul Tyler by Paul | March 16, 2010 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Tue) – week 2

We bravely made our way to the key of C. (Hey, this is Fiddle 4).

Our tune comes from John Salyer, a fabulous fiddler from eastern Kentucky who made a bunch of home recordings in the early 1940s. He traveled around the entire planet after being discharged from the army in the Phillipines. He came to Chicago for the World’s Fair and played for dances in a downtown hotel. He went back to Kentucky where he farmed and taught school. He never made any commercial records.

Indian Ate a Woodchuck

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Filed under: Fiddle 4, Paul Tyler by Paul | March 16, 2010 | Comments (0)

Early Country Ensemble – weeks 1 & 1

Let’s see if we can do this . . .

Week 1 we did

Down on the Banks of the Ohio by the Blue Sky Boys, 1936

Here’s one to help get ready for Week 2
Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South by Dacosta Woltz’s Southern Broadcasters, 1928

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Filed under: Paul Tyler by Paul | March 9, 2010 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 3 (Mon) – week 2

Staying with the Fuzzy Mountain String Band, a group from Chapel Hill-Durham, North Carolina that was at the forefront of the old-time music revival of the 1970s. Here’s a tune in D . . .

Green Willis

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Filed under: Fiddle 3, Paul Tyler by Paul | March 8, 2010 | Comments (0)

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 1

Perhaps we’ll focus on steeds and other hoofed creatures this session. Starting out in the key of A . . .

Wild Horse as played by Hector Phillips of Petersburg, Indiana in 1980.

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Plus, a bonus tune. It is almost identical to Hector’s “Wild Horse”
(but still, there’s a difference).

Bell Cow, played by Harvey “Pappy” Taylor of Effingham, Illinois.

I learned the tune from Garry Harrison and the Indian Creek Delta Boys

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Filed under: Old Time Ensemble, Paul Tyler, Steve Rosen by Paul | March 8, 2010 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Tue) – week 1

Doc Roberts of Richmond, Kentucky is in the top five of my list of favorite fiddlers. Born in 1897, he was christened Dock Phil in honor of the man of medicine who delivered him. Many of the tunes he recorded between 1924 and 1934 were learned from Owen Walker, a local African-American fiddler.

Here’s Brickyard Joe from 1928.

The tune demonstrated, with some shuffle bowing . . .

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Filed under: Fiddle 4, Paul Tyler by Paul | March 8, 2010 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 3 (Mon) – week 1

We started in the key of G. From 1971, the Fuzzy Mountain String Band . . .

Magpie

Magpie demonstrated . . .

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Filed under: Fiddle 3, Paul Tyler by Paul | March 2, 2010 | Comments (0)

OLD TIME ENSEMBLE GRADUATION

8:15 wednesday feb 24
paddy o splaines 2434 w montrose
Just west of western
http://www.paddyosplaines.net/?p=home

old time ensemble class stringbands
(spongebob squaredance & CF and the pardon me boys)
banjo classes
saturday old time ensemble
specialty fiddle classes
much more, plus good food, good beers. paddys is under new management, so
lets show them how much fun old time music is and what a great crowd we are. and don’t forget to tip your waitstaff!

Filed under: Fiddle 3, Fiddle 4, Old Time Ensemble, Paul Tyler, Steve Rosen by Steve | February 23, 2010 | Comments (0)