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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 5

Paul — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:11:50 +0000

You start in G, then you go to D. Then you come back and do it all again.

Puncheon Floor by Esker Hutchins of Dobson, North Carolina

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 4

Paul — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:19:16 +0000

Ladies on the Steamboat by Burnett & Rutherford of Monticello, Kentucky

Leonard Rutherford played the fiddle. Richard Burnett played banjo. This classic recording is from 1928 or ’29.

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 3

Paul — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:48:23 +0000

Boatin’ Up the Sandy, fiddled by Craig Johnson with the Double Decker String Band

There is also a slower demo version in the Tune Archive.

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 2

Paul — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:31:52 +0000

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).

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 1

Paul — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:30:27 +0000

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.

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 4

Paul — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:27:31 +0000

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

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 3

Paul — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:24:30 +0000

Pull Back Jig played by Clyde Davenport of Monticello, Kentucky

Meriweather fiddle only

medium tempo

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – weeks 1 & 2

Paul — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:22:44 +0000

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

Old-Time Ensemble Graduation

Paul — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:39:20 +0000

will be Wednesday, August 10 at 8pm at the
Atlantic Bar & Grill
5062 Lincoln

Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 6

Paul — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:07:03 +0000

Here are slow and medium fiddle versions of Sandy Boys. Sorry, banjoists.

Sandy Boys slow

medium tempo