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Wednesday Tune Fix – Oyster River Quadrille

October 11, 2017 Charlie Walden Learn A New Tune

This is a tune from legendary fiddler Bob Walters of Tekameh, Nebraska. By the way, the Oyster River is in[…]

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Wednesday Tune Fix – Shamus O’Brien Waltz

October 4, 2017 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

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

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Wednesday Tune-Fix Returns – Rock Valley Jig

September 27, 2017 Charlie Walden Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets, Travelogue

Wow, what a summer we had! First we went to the Bethel Adult Fiddle Camp in Bethel, MO, then Patt &[…]

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Wednesday Tune Fix – Dusty’s Hornpipe

June 7, 2017 Charlie Walden Bluegrass Fiddle, Learn A New Tune

Another great Kenny Baker original, Dusty’s Hornpipe appears on another of Kenny’s solo fiddle LPs released in 1972, called Kenny[…]

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Wednesday Tune Fix – White Horse Breakdown

May 31, 2017 Charlie Walden Learn A New Tune

This is one of my favorite original Kenny Baker hoe-downs. Set in the key of G, it uses the full[…]

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Wednesday Tune Fix – Washington County

May 24, 2017 Charlie Walden Learn A New Tune

Remember that great old fight song based on Washington and Lee Swing? I can still hear it ringing in my[…]

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Wednesday Tune Fix – Festival Waltz

May 17, 2017 Charlie Walden Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

This tune is from the great Bluegrass fiddler Kenny Baker. I bought all of Baker’s LP as they were released across[…]

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

May 10, 2017 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

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

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Wedneday Tune Fix – Red Fox Waltz

May 3, 2017 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

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

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Wednesday Tune Fix – Fever in the South

April 26, 2017 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

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

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