History & Folklore – The Charlie Walden Fiddle Blog

Wednesday Tune Fix – Johnny Don’t Come Home Drunk!

I first heard this tune played by Cyril Stinnett up in Northwest Missouri in the late 1970s. The tune appears[…]

This old piece is one Taylor McBaine of Columbia taught me to play quite early on. He played the dickens[…]

Let me show you this great old hoe-down from Vee Latty of Fulton, Missouri, which originated Callaway County and is likely[…]

This tune Storm is actually not a fiddle tune, but one of Dwight Lamb’s old Danish accordion pieces. In the[…]

The old fiddle tune Happy Jack I learned the tune from Pete McMahan. To my thinking it is one of[…]

How about playing “That Good Tune in A”. This is a tune I learned from Dwight Lamb up in Onawa,[…]

I learned this version of Walking in My Sleep from Pete McMahan of Harrisburg. MO. Charlie Walden – fiddle &[…]

If you’re not familiar with National Heritage Award recipient Bob Holt, he was an old-time fiddler and dairy farmer from[…]

It’s out. New release from MSOTFA on our Bandcamp Page. Nolan & Frances Boone play old-time fiddle selections from Audrain[…]

Nolan Boone was one of the older generation of fiddlers in Mid-Missouri that I and many of my contemporaries had[…]