Old-Time Music
- Rabbit In The Pea Patch - Jon Bekoff Nate Paine 2010
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They jam this one out to almost 11 minutes. Trancey but ripping old time!
- John Brown's Dream - Foghorn String Band
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Foghorn with Rafe Stefanini on banjo.
- Pretty Little Shoes - Ira Bernstein flatfooting
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Rayna Gellert, John Herrmann, Tom Sauber, Carl Jones, and Ira Bernstein tearing it up with the flatfooting.
- Wolves a Howling - Rayna Gellert and John Herrmann
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My favorite version of wolves a howling. There's a lot going on in that banjo part!
- Happy Hollow - Big Chimney Barn Dance
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Nice version of Marcus Martin's Happy Hollow. Just a great tune!
- Buffalo Gals - Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves
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Jamming version of Buffalo Gals, from banjoist Matokie Slaughter. It uses a mode of the melodic minor scale, pretty unusual for old time.
- 40 Weight of Gingerbread - Dom Flemons and David Bragger - Bones and Fiddle
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- Old Corn Liquor - Joe Thompson
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Joe Thompson (fiddle) is the source on this tune. That's Bob Carlin on banjo.
Some other notable versions:
- Tie Your Dog Sally Gal - David Winston and Mary Jane Epps
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This tune is from black fiddler Will Adams. One of those that repeats so long its kind of a surprise when you finally change parts. First rate banjo and fiddle on this version.
- Bruce Molsky - Chinquapin Hunting
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Rushad Eggleston with the elf hat and cello melody/backup on this one. The excellent Tatiana Hargreaves on fiddle. You wish for Chinquapin Hunting!??!
- Big Hoedown - twin fiddles
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Love these two on twin fiddles. Mary Jane Epps was on a great album called "Light and Hitch" that's out of print. Both her and Michele Lanan are biologists as well as fiddlers. Tune is from Edden Hammons.
- Shortnin' Bread - Water Tower Bucket Boys
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Those water tower bucket boys playing a funky shortnin bread. Flatfoot dancing starts around 2:00.
- Money in Both Pocketskodcast.com Take Two recording "Money in Both Pockets" at STudio808A. [1973562356081136]
Take Two recording at STudio808A. Ian Friend - Guitar Scott Friend - Mandolin Ryan Grant - Bass Colby Joplin - Fiddle Ben Perdue - Mandolin Sam Stallings - Banjo Recorded and mixed at STudio808A by...
Ian Friend - Guitar Scott Friend - Mandolin Ryan Grant - Bass Colby Joplin - Fiddle Ben Perdue - Mandolin Sam Stallings - Banjo
Recorded and mixed at STudio808A by Joseph "joebass" DeJarnette
- Policeman- Spare Change Boys
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Policeman, the most gangsta old time song I know of
- Back-Step Cindy - flatfooting + banjo
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Pretty cool flatfooting w "Phoebe Ophelia". Jeremy Marcotte on banjo. Tune is back-step cindy.
- Dan Gellert - Black Eyed Suzie
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Love this clip of Dan Gellert playing a funky version of three part Black Eyed Susie.
- Roger Netherton, Clifftop 2015 - Tippin' Back the Corn
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- Callahan - Bruce Molsky and Rafe Stefanini at Mt. Airy, 1994.
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- Old Joe Clark - AJ & Sami and Friends - Clifftop 2018
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My favorite version of Old Joe clark. That bluesy note!
- Clifftop 2007 "Half Past Four"
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Half Past Four at a quick clip! With Rachel Eddy on fiddle, Hilarie Burhans on banjo, Mark Hellenberg on banjo uke, Stuart Kenney on bass, and Bill Dudley on guitar. Some great manic energy on this one.
- "Boys, Them Buzzards Are Flying," Mt. Airy Fiddlers Convention, 2012
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Great trancey extended jam of this Garry Harrison tune.
- Lacy Brown
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Grace Forrest fiddle, Steve Arkin playing 3 finger banjo, and Erica Wiess on guitar.
- whoa mule - jon bekoff
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Pretty bluesy version of whoa mule from Jon Bekoff
- Roscoe's Gone
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Just came across this one at a festival, and then someone back home knew it too.