Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 2

Here’s a recording of Francis Geels playing Sugar in the Gourd. It’s the opening number to a radio show I produced in 1979 dedicated to Francis and his music. The second time through the tune begins a voiceover introducing the program. But you can still here the tune.

Sugar in the Gourd as the first tune on Indiana Hoedown.

Note: click on the title or arrow to listen. Right click on the title to download (save link).

Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Paul | January 23, 2012 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 2Rep (Tue) – week 2

Mississippi Sawyer is on the Hands on CD that can be heard on a jukebox linked on the Old Town School’s Fiddle Page. There are slow, medium and fast versions on the Hands On.

Here’s the slow version

You could also buy a copy of the CD at the Old Town School music store.
Disclaimer: I’m on the CD but receive no royalties or profits.

Filed under: Fiddle 2 Rep,Paul Tyler by Paul | January 23, 2012 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Mon) – week 2

Here’s a recording of Lotus Dickey playing “Greasy Strings,” not the version we listened to yesterday in class. This was a home recording from 1986. The sound quality is not as good, but his fiddling was stronger.

Greasy Strings

This recording is not in the Tune Archive, but on my web site, drdosido.net. I’ve started to tell his story here.

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | January 17, 2012 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 3 (Sun) – week 1

We did Sandy River Belle in the key of G. Here is a 1927 recording . . .

Sandy River Belle by Dad Blackard’s Moonshiners

medium tempo

There is also a slow version in the Tune Archive.

Filed under: Fiddle 3,Paul Tyler by Paul | January 17, 2012 | Comments (0)

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 1

A straight-forward D tune that Brad Leftwich and Kenny Jackson collected from Missiouri fiddler Ed Sutherland.

Indian War Whoop played by Kenny Jackson with the Rhythm Rats

I passed out Abcs for the tune. Here is a short tutorial on how to use Abc notation.

Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Paul | January 11, 2012 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 2Rep (Tue) – week 1

Everybody needs to be able to play “Liza Jane.”

Liza Jane by J.P. Fraley of Maysville, Kentucky

There are slower and medium tempo versions on the Tune Archive.

Filed under: Fiddle 2 Rep,Paul Tyler by Paul | January 11, 2012 | Comments (0)

Fiddle 4 (Monday) – week 1

It was January 9th, so we learned The Ninth of January, Bob Holt’s version of the Eighth of January. Bob’s version was learned from his father. It differs some from the more conventional melody of The Eighth of January. Bob started to call his version of The Ninth in recognition of distinction.

The Ninth of January from Bob Holt of Ava, Missouri

medium tempo

I passed out Abcs for the tune. Here is a short tutorial on how to use Abc notation.

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | January 11, 2012 | Comments (0)

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 4

We sang a serious song about agricultural misfortune. From Judy Canova and the Canova Family for the 99%, as they were in the 1930s.

Whoa Back, Buck played by the Volo Bogtrotters

Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Paul | November 22, 2011 | Comments (0)

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 3

Pull Back Jig played by Clyde Davenport of Monticello, Kentucky

Meriweather fiddle only

medium tempo

Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Paul | November 14, 2011 | Comments (0)

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – weeks 1 & 2

Log Chain played by Lonnie Seymour of Chillicothe, Ohio

Log Chain Another recording by Mr. Seymour, with Tony Ellis on banjo

And here you’ll find another version (slow and fast), played by Lynn Frederick for the Fiddle Club of the World.

A tune from George Coe’s Album of Music for the Violin, 1876. It’s not really a jig, except that it’s for a minstrel stage dance.

Pull Back Jig slower, then faster on banjo & fiddle

Pull Back Jig fiddle only

Filed under: Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Paul | November 14, 2011 | Comments (0)


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