This tune was recorded in 1933 by Ted Sharp who hailed from the Arkansas Ozarks. The band Hinman, Sharp and[…]
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Tag: Missouri
Kafein’s Northern Fiddle Session in Evanston (Wednesday, February 28th)
It happening again! — the Patt and Possum monthly fiddle session at Kafein. Wednesday, February 28, 7:30 to 9:30 PM[…]
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Wednesday Tune Fix: Old Ladies Picking Chickens
This is great little tune from the Missouri Valley region that we got from Dwight Lamb. The tune is set[…]
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Wednesday Tune Fix: Tennessee Rag
Tennessee Rag is a hoe-down I learned from Pete McMahan. Pete got the tune from a recording of the great[…]
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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Nile Wilson’s Oak Ridge Stomp
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
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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Kafein’s Northern Fiddle Session in Evanston (Wednesday, January 24)
Patt and I are tickled to be leading a new monthly instrumental fiddle session starting this coming Wednesday, January 24,[…]
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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Oklahoma Redbird
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: Fourteen Days in Georgia
This is a tune in the key of C, which I learned from Lyman Enloe’s recording on County Records “Fiddle[…]
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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Norma Lou’s Waltz
This is an old waltz from Mid-Missouri that I learned from the Kemp brothers of Mexico, MO. They credited it[…]
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