Fiddlers - 1/4/2009

For the first show of the new year we focused on the great fiddlers of early recorded music. I learned recently that old-time fiddling was quite the fad in the 1920s primarily because Henry Ford promoted the style as preserving something uniquely American. The early bands were very fiddle-centric as a result, and many of these early fiddlers were recorded in the 1920s into the 1930s. We also heard a few recent fiddle tunes from local group Notorious, and Texas fiddlers The Quebe Sisters.

The only songs not using fiddle were the opening Golden Gate Quartet number, and the ending number by local duet Blue Around the Edges (Dianna Tetreau & Carol Campbell).

Thanks for listening!

Jim & Marti

Title / Artist / Album / Label

• Aunt Hattie Dalton "Old Red Rooster Party" Introduction (1994)
• Bedside Of A Neighbor (1937) / Golden Gate Quartet / Complete Recorded Works Volume 1 / Document
• Hand Me Down My Walking Cane (1926) / Gid Tanner & His Skillet-Lickers with Riley Puckett / Complete Recorded Works Volume 1` / Document
• Turkey In The Straw (1922) / Eck Robertson / Vintage Recordings 1922-1929 / County
• Brilliancy Medley (1929) / Eck Robertson / Vintage Recordings 1922-1929 / County
• Little More Sugar In The Coffee (1930) / Fiddlin' John Carson / Complete Recorded Works Volume 6 / Document
• Black Eyed Susie (1927) / Fiddlin' Doc Roberts / Complete Recorded Works Volume 1 / Document
• Lonesome Road Blues (1927) / Williamson Brothers & Curry / Old Time Music From West Virginia / Document
• Earl Johnson's Arkansaw Traveler (1927) / Earl Johnson & His Clodhoppers / Complete Recorded Works Volume 2 / Document
• Henry Ford's Model A (1929) / Oscar Ford / Georgia Songsers / Document
• Up Jumped The Rabbit (1930) / Georgia Pot Lickers / The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of / Yazoo
• Rocking My Sugar Lump (1930) / Lowe Stokes & His Pot Lickers / In Chronological Order Volume 1 / Document
• Give Me Back My Fifteen Cents (1928) / Binkley Brothers Dixie Clodhoppers / Nashville, 1928 / Document
• The Georgia Hobo (1927) / Cofer Brothers / Georgia String Bands Volume 1 / Document
• Jolly Blacksmith (1928) / Theron Hale & Daughters / Nashville, 1928 / Document
• Stone Rag (1928) / Paul Warmack & His Gully Jumpers / Nashville, 1928 / Document

Maryberry Corner Trivia: What part did Barney sing in the Mayberry Choir? Answer: Tenor

• Old Joe Clark (1927) / Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters / Complete Recorded Works / Document
• Podunk Toddle (1935) / The Freeny Harmonizers / Mississippi String Bands Vol. 1 / Document
• Ride That Mule (1927) / The Hill Billies / Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters / Complete Recorded Works Volume 3 / Document
• Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues (1925) / The North Carolina Ramblers / Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers / JSP
• Lye Soap (1930) / Dilly & His Dill Pickles / Old Mountain Stringband Songs & Tunes / Living Era
• Never Be As Fast As I Have Been (1929) / Grayson & Whitter / Old Mountain Stringband Songs & Tunes / Living Era
• Ragtime Annie (1931) / The Corn Cob Crushers / Old Mountain Stringband Songs & Tunes / Living Era
• Johnny Grey (1938) / Uncle Dave Macon w. Sid Harkreader / Uncle Dave Macon 1928-1936 / JSP
• Johnson’s Old Grey Mule (1936) / J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers / The Golden Age of J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers / Cattle
• Cumberland Gap (c.1968) / Tommy Jarrell & Fred Cockerham / Tommy & Fred: Best Fiddle-Banjo Duets / County
• Nobody Cares (Not Even You) (1952) / Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Bluegrass - Classic Recordings Remastered / JSP
• Orange Blossom Special (1939) / The Rouse Brothers / Bluegrass - Classic Recordings Remastered / JSP
• Up Jumped The Devil (1940) / Byron Parker and his Mountaineers / Byron Parker and his Mountaineers / Old Homestead
• Sarah Jane (2008) / Notorious / Elkins / Black Socks [local music!]
• So Long To The Red River Valley (2007) / The Quebe Sisters Band / Timeless / FiddleTone
• Let Your Light Shine On Me (2007) / Blue Around The Edges (Dianna Tetreau & Carol Campbell) / Heaven’s Front Door / Self-released [local music!]