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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Pike’s Peak

March 1, 2018 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

This tune was recorded in 1933 by Ted Sharp who hailed from the Arkansas Ozarks. The band Hinman, Sharp and[…]

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Wednesday Tune Fix: Little Burnt Potato

February 7, 2018 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

This little jig from Canada we first heard back in the 70s from two sources. Locally in Missouri it was[…]

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Pump Organ-Tastic Quadrilles & Jigs

February 3, 2018 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, News You Can't Use

Patt & I are getting busy recording some old Midwestern quadrilles using this Beckwith made in Chicago pump organ from[…]

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Valse Bleue

February 2, 2018 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

A couple of years ago when we were up in Pembroke, Ontario, at the big fiddle festival, my friend Jacquelin[…]

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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Nile Wilson’s Oak Ridge Stomp

January 31, 2018 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets, Uncategorized

Another Nile Wilson hoe-down called Oak Ridge Stomp, this time in the key of D. It’s a snappy little piece[…]

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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Nile Wilson’s Tie-Hacker #1

January 24, 2018 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

This another of Nile Wilson’s tunes called the Tie-Hacker #1 (of course there’s a #2). The tie-hackers were itinerant railroad laborers[…]

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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Nile Wilson’s New Boston Hornpipe

January 17, 2018 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

One of the best fiddlers I ever met in Missouri, and one of the least known and appreciated I think,[…]

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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Down Home Rag

January 10, 2018 Charlie Walden Bluegrass Fiddle, History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

Well we’ve run the full gamut on Lyman Enloe tunes. Here’s the last one on offer for a little while.[…]

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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Oklahoma Redbird

January 3, 2018 Charlie Walden Bluegrass Fiddle, History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

OK, we’re really on a run here with Lyman Enloe tunes. What’s not to like, right? Here’s one in Bb-flat[…]

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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Sleepy-Eye Joe

December 27, 2017 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

Another great tune from Lyman Enloe in the key of A. This tune was popular up in the Missouri Valley[…]

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