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johndaniellanewhen the levee breaksjohn lane- lyrics, vox, guitar, fiddle, banjo, engineering2020-01-1403 minjohndaniellanecranberry rock fiddle/banjocranberry rock fiddle/banjo by johndaniellane2019-11-2101 minjohndaniellaneNickajack's Lamenthere's a little tribute to a unique instrumental album called Cadillac Rag released in 1991 on Hartford's Small Dog a Barkin' label.2018-05-0402 minjohndaniellanecasey's hp - cyril stinnettcasey's hp - cyril stinnett by johndaniellane2017-12-1101 minjohndaniellaneclyde durst's tune - cyril stinnettclyde durst's tune - cyril stinnett by johndaniellane2017-11-1201 minjohndaniellanecoming down from denver - bob walterscoming down from denver - bob walters by johndaniellane2017-11-1201 minjohndaniellanecoming up the pike - art galbraith, who isn't a missouri valley fiddler, strictly speakingcoming up the pike - art galbraith, who isn't a missouri valley fiddler, strictly speaking by johndaniellane2017-11-1201 minjohndaniellaneold melinda - bob waltersold melinda - bob walters by johndaniellane2017-11-1201 minjohndaniellaneoyster river quadrille - bob walters via dwight lamboyster river quadrille - bob walters via dwight lamb by johndaniellane2017-11-1201 minjohndaniellanesalty river reel - casey jonessalty river reel - casey jones by johndaniellane2017-11-1201 minjohndaniellanenatcheznatchez by johndaniellane2017-10-2802 min
Get Up in the CoolEpisode 60: John Lane (Missouri Fiddle Tunes)Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s guest is John Lane, and we’re going to play some Missouri tunes for you, and tell you which tunes you know and love have been Missouri tunes all along. You may be surprised! Some of you definitely won’t be, because you’re Old Time super nerds, and I love that about you. Never change.
Anyway, this episode is very good. We recorded it in Spitzer Space Telescope’s apartment in Chicago while I was in town for the Midwest...2017-09-2756 minjohndaniellanezingera quintessential bob walters A tune2017-05-2301 minjohndaniellanestoney pointstoney point by johndaniellane2017-05-2301 minjohndaniellaneold melindathis is a good ol 3-part c breakdown from bob walters. it's also now the name of john and julia williams' slammed 70s chevy truck that they bring to the bethel fiddle camp each year.2017-05-2301 minjohndaniellanekeith mcmanus and co. raise a ruckus late on the last night at clifftopkeith mcmanus is a hell of a singer, he can cut through a 20 person jam like nothing. he and his thralls were singing raise a roughhouse and I came across it and taped the end because it was magic.2016-08-0901 minjohndaniellanefiddler jonesfiddler jones by johndaniellane2016-07-1402 minjohndaniellanehanging round the kitchen til the cook comes homecharlie walden says some peole play a very similar tune as "richmond cotillion"2016-06-2801 minjohndaniellanepoplar bluffan ed haley tune that I heard from the corn potato string band with an unusual flat 3 major chord and a confused relationship with C and C#2016-06-2802 minjohndaniellanenew lambarchive.org told me that this is a jim lansford original tune! he taught this to me at bethel long ago. I can't find it anywhere else online. truly a new lamb.2016-06-2801 minjohndaniellanegilsawgilsaw by johndaniellane2016-06-2801 minjohndaniellanetippin' back the cornevan collins/banjo, tessa dillon/fiddle, john lane/guitar2016-05-3104 minjohndaniellanebull at the wagonevan collins/banjo, chris kimmons/guitar, tessa dillon/fiddle, john lane/fiddle2016-05-3104 minjohndaniellanebull at the wagonbull at the wagon by johndaniellane2016-05-2201 minjohndaniellanetippin' back the corna tune by jordan wankoff, folk-processed by emily schaad and/or roger netherton.2016-05-1701 minjohndaniellanepete mcmahan's grey eagle in Cthis is a cool crooked grey eagle from pete mcmahan, a champion of missouri fiddling. http://missourifolkloresociety.truman.edu/McMahan.html2016-05-1301 minjohndaniellanebetween the fieldsthis is a song about the past and future of the american midwest.2016-04-0203 minjohndaniellanest joe's hornpipeone of my favorite Bb cyril stinnett hornpipes.2016-03-1501 minjohndaniellanetake me back to tulsatake me back to tulsa by johndaniellane2016-01-3102 minjohndaniellaneredwingredwing by johndaniellane2016-01-2902 minjohndaniellanethe suitcase surprise setfrom shane cook and troy macgillivray's album "when here meets there", one of the best-arranged and recorded trad albums ever. I think shane wrote a couple of these. this is one of the few albums I have ever to bothered to buy from a foreign country via mail-order. it was worth it. and by mail-order I don't just mean it came in the mail, I mean I had to send a check.2016-01-1405 minjohndaniellaneclyde durst's tunethe playing exceeds the engineering, as usual.2016-01-1401 minjohndaniellanefive miles out of town/johnny don't come home drunk/smith's reelfive miles out of town/johnny don't come home drunk/smith's reel by johndaniellane2015-12-0203 minjohndaniellanemarmaduke's hornpipea contest staple in missouri in the 80s. more than one champion fiddler thought of it as their prize tune in the earlier part of the century. I'm joined by my wife chanel on banjo ukelele!2015-11-0201 minjohndaniellanethe great interstate fiddle contest of 1926 (lotta good tunes done gone on)a story song that came to me while walking the dog today after having read this article. an elegy for the death of live music+dance culture but also a note of hope that new tunes composed in the style today can replace the tunes that have died with the fiddlers that knew them, since tunes then and now truly spring from the same timeless and abundant well.
(http://www.missourifiddling.com/Articles_Features/WOS/Radiophone_WOS.htm).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biVSLSsOwwo2015-10-3001 minjohndaniellanefive miles from towntaken at a breakneck ozark tempo of 142, from notable contest fiddler D. W. "Frame" Davis of Des Moines, IA. from R. P. Christensen's fiddler's repertory, via slippery hill. http://slippery-hill.com/RP/2015-10-3001 minjohndaniellanegood for the tonguefrom bob walters.2015-10-2901 minjohndaniellanerugged roadfrom lyman enloe.
https://missourifiddling.bandcamp.com/album/lyman-enloe-rugged-road-msotfa-004
"Lyman Enloe’s music is a unique blend of traditional and modern influences. Enloe was born in 1906 in Cole County about halfway between Jefferson City and Eldon, Missouri, in a geographic region known as the upper Ozarks. He was surrounded by old-time fiddle music as a boy. Both his father Elijah (called Lige) and his older half-brother Wade played the fiddle. Other local players Lyman remembered included Ben Hine, Lee Carpenter and Lou Hart.
Tony Gilmore of Jefferson City was Lyman’s most important early influence. Gilmore, a railroad man by occu...2015-10-2901 minjohndaniellanepacific slopehear more cyril stinnett on the missouri fiddling bandcamp page!2015-10-1301 minjohndaniellanebumblebee in a jugI have another version of this on here, but my feeling these days it's the playing, not the tune, so there might as well be fifty iterations of this and nothing else.2015-07-3001 minjohndaniellanelittle spotted ponylittle spotted pony by johndaniellane2015-07-3001 minjohndaniellanethe all american rodeo reelfrom john's awesome cadillac rag album.2015-07-3001 minjohndaniellanebob-tailed mule from jim lansfordfrom one of Jim and Kim's CDs, which can be got here. http://www.kimandjim.com/2015-07-3001 minjohndaniellaneart wooten's quadrilleart wooten was one of the early fiddlers for bill monroe and the bluegrass boys. dwight lamb taught me this tune at the bethel fiddle camp about twelve years ago.2015-07-2801 minjohndaniellanest joe's hornpipe (cyril stinnett)just having some fun with a cyril stinnett Bb hornpipe, one of many. here's the original. sounds like I mixed the parts up.
http://missourifiddling.bandcamp.com/track/st-joe-hornpipe2015-07-1201 minjohndaniellanefiddler's dreamI heard great recordings of this tune from Bob Walters and Travis Inman this month, so I had to try it at a fast midwest square dance tempo. Dedicated to Vesta Johnson and Steve Hall's trip to Washington state to represent the midwest style at Centrum's Fiddle Tunes fest.2015-06-3002 min