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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Pike’s Peak

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

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

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[…]

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

This is a great square dance tune in A that I got from Bob Holt. It makes liberal use of[…]

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

Talk to Dinah is this week’s Wednesday Tune Fix. This a hoe-down is the key of A from Pete McMahan[…]

These are field recordings of the 1966 Canadian Open Fiddle Contest at Shelburne, ONT, from the collection of Delores “Fiddlin’ Dee”[…]

Cole’s 1000 Fiddle Tunes (and its original incarnation Ryan’s Mammoth Collection) is to me the single most influential collection for[…]

Just had my 60th birthday party a couple of weeks ago held at stately Plunkett-Walden Mansion. Attended by 90 some[…]