Fiddle Hangout Top 100 Old-Time Songs

Shelvin Rock

for vff Jan 2015

Eighth of January

Virtual Fiddle Festival Jan 2015 - got some ideas from my memory of the popular song and Cyril Stinnett. Recorded on the Knilling. ADae

Breakin Up Christmas

Belatedly for the Dec 2014 VFF. AEAE

Eighth of January

Multitrack of Eighth of January featuring guitar, banjo and fiddle.

Breakin Up Christmas

For Dec VFF

Ashby's Cluck Old Hen

December VFF2014 fiddle tuned GDgd. Learned from John Ashby's recording at the Slippery Hill website.

Whoa Mule

Lee Sexton, banjo and lead vocal; Paul David Smith, fiddle; Doug Dorschug, guitar and harmony vocal. Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, Port Townsend, WA 7/10/04 Thanks to Charlie Beck for the recording.

Old Billy Hell

For Oct VFF

Sherwood

From Fate Morrison.

Eighth of January

For June VFF

The Rocky Road to Dublin

Learned from Erskine Morris (Douglastown, Gaspé, Quebec)

NewFiveCentPiece

Playing new five cent piece on the fiddle and banjo.

Shove That Pig's Foot a Little Further in the Fire

Foe the NOV 2013 VFF. GDGD

Hop High Ladies

Hop high, ladies, the cake's all dough. Me, my fiddle and my ukulele.

Golden Slippers

For the August 2013 VFF. Tuned GDGD.

Queen of the Earth, Child of the Stars

In memory of all the great musicians who have passed on. Taken from Edden Hammons. RIP Richard Dissmore.

Hangman's Reel

For the Mar 2013 VFF. Tuned AEAC#.

Old Joe Clark

My take on another old classic. Kind of patterned after Edden Hammons version; GDAE tuning. Recorded 2/21/2013

Billy Wilson

My take on an old classic. I like to do it in a medley of Mason's Apron / Wake Up Susan / Billy Wilson. Key of A; GDAE tuning. Recorded 2/21/2013

Shove that Pigs Foot Further in the Fire

Old Ladies Pickin' Chickens - Grey Eagle

PigAnkle - recorded 1991 - Kirk Hunter- fiddle, David Allen - Banjo, RIchard Chance - Guitar. Learned Pickin' Chickens from a recording of Allen St., as well as from my good friend, Bob Atchison. I learned this unusual version of Grey Eagle from an old timer in Mtn.View during the spring Folk Festival. It is somewhat similar to the transcrition in the Christeson's "Old Time Fiddler's Repertoire." I can't believe 1991 was THAT long ago!!

Ladies on the Steamboat

During the Sept. 5-8,2012 J.P. Fraley Festival, two Cowan Creek students (young Joseph Cobb and considerably older Pat (a.k.a. hummyfan--who won't reveal her age) played in a jam session with a "DREAM TEAM" made up of wonderful old-time Kentucky fiddlers & teachers: John Harrod, Jessie Wells, Bobby Taylor, Bob Buckingham, Jim McCown---and a Missouri resident, fiddler Bill Ray. As you listen to us zipping through "Ladies on a Steamboat," notice the middle part of the tune when the teachers dr...

Mississippi Sawyer

Irish Washer Woman

My attempt at this song in the Key of F.

A1 Dinah

AEAE. Learned from the CD Traditional Dance Tunes.

Say Darlin Say

Banjo and Guitar backup for this tune available at oldtimejam.com.

Mike in the Wilderness

2/5/2011 Jam, Ajo, AZ. Jam participants included Dan & Jennifer Levenson, Dan Everts, Linda Argentino, Bruce Blackburn, Charlie and Martila Shirley, Paul Muhlrad, John Walkenbach, George Flink, John White, Carina Ravely. Recorded by Paul Muhlrad.

Mississippi Sawyer ----Old Molly Hare {banjo}

Tom Elder banjo

Christmas Eve (Dick Hutchison)

Inspired by Dick Hutchison. Key of D in GDAE

Skillet and Pretty Little Shoes

Ed and I trying to get some stuff together... Fiddle:AEAE