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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[…]

One of the best fiddlers I ever met in Missouri, and one of the least known and appreciated I think,[…]

Well we’ve run the full gamut on Lyman Enloe tunes. Here’s the last one on offer for a little while.[…]

OK, we’re really on a run here with Lyman Enloe tunes. What’s not to like, right? Here’s one in Bb-flat[…]

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[…]