Recent Posts Tagged With 'fiddle'

• Fiddlin’ Powers playing Cluck Old Hen

  Posted on Sunday April 26th, 2009 at 20:38 in MP3, audio, archive, tweedblog, fiddle, 78rpm, old-time

  Fiddlin’ Powers was a John Cowan Powers, from Russell County, Virginia. His recording career encompasses 33 sides for the Victor, Edison, and OKeh labels, though 14 of those seem to be unissued. This is a 1925 Edison recording, and he is backed...

• The Takeup Medley live at the Abbey Pub

  Posted on Wednesday August 13th, 2008 at 16:35 in MP3, audio, mandolin, archive, tweedblog, fiddle, tangleweed rarities, cd3

  We played a show at the Abbey Pub a few months back, opening for Hot Buttered Rum (nice folks, they). Our friend Brian taped both band’s sets, and they’re available for download at Archive.org. Here’s a tune from midway through our ...

• The Sweet Brothers and Ernest Stoneman singing I Got a Bulldog

  Posted on Saturday July 5th, 2008 at 21:23 in audio, banjo, archive, tweedblog, fiddle, 78rpm, old-time

  This appealing side was cut on July 10, 1928 in Richmond, Indiana, for the Gennett label. It was paired with a tune from a session five days earlier (’Somebody’s Waiting for Me’) on Gennett 6620. The personnel: Herbert Sweet: fiddl...

• Weems String Band playing Greenback Dollar

  Posted on Monday June 30th, 2008 at 21:01 in audio, archive, tweedblog, fiddle, 78rpm, old-time

  This side, recorded in Memphis in December, 1927, represents one half of the total recorded output of Weems String Band. It’s a pity, too, because it’s a rather extraordinary record. With more weemses than one could shake a stick at. The ...

• Eck Robertson playing Ragtime Annie

  Posted on Monday May 12th, 2008 at 01:00 in archive, tweedblog, fiddle, 78rpm, old-time

  This acoustical recording from 1922 is among the earliest examples of rural Southern vernacular fiddling we have on record. Alexander Campbell (’Eck’) Robertson was a skilled contest fiddler from Texas whose recording career extended into the fol...

• Bascom Lamar Lunsford playing Doggett’s Gap

  Posted on Saturday February 2nd, 2008 at 20:35 in tweedblog, trad, fiddle, bascom lamar lunsford

  I’ve raved about Bascom Lamar Lunsford’s work several times before on this site. This is an early video clip of Lunsford’s fiddle playing. The tune is, for all intents and purposes, Cumberland Gap. His vocal performance in this ense...