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Category: History & Folklore

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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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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Wednesday Tune Fix – Storm by Dwight Lamb

March 29, 2017 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

This tune Storm is actually not a fiddle tune, but one of Dwight Lamb’s old Danish accordion pieces. In the[…]

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Wednesday Tune Fix – Pete McMahan’s Happy Jack

March 22, 2017 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

The old fiddle tune Happy Jack I learned the tune from Pete McMahan. To my thinking it is one of[…]

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Wednesday Tune Fix – “That Good Tune in A”

March 15, 2017 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

How about playing “That Good Tune in A”. This is a tune I learned from Dwight Lamb up in Onawa,[…]

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