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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Sleepy-Eye Joe

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

I first heard this waltz on the old K-TEL fiddle record 25 Old-Tyme Fiddle Hits. OTFH was actually an American[…]

This is an old waltz from Mid-Missouri that I learned from the Kemp brothers of Mexico, MO. They credited it[…]

I first heard Shamus O’Brien Waltz being played by Cyril Stinnett of Oregon, MO, in the mid-1970s. His rendition was[…]

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,[…]