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Category: History & Folklore

Wednesday Tune-Fix: Nile Wilson’s Tie-Hacker #1

January 24, 2018 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

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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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Nile Wilson’s New Boston Hornpipe

January 17, 2018 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

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

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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Down Home Rag

January 10, 2018 Charlie Walden Bluegrass Fiddle, History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

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

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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Oklahoma Redbird

January 3, 2018 Charlie Walden Bluegrass Fiddle, History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

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: Sleepy-Eye Joe

December 27, 2017 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

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

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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Country Waltz

December 13, 2017 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

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

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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Norma Lou’s Waltz

December 6, 2017 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

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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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 – 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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