johndaniellane

john lane- lyrics, vox, guitar, fiddle, banjo, engineering

cranberry rock fiddle/banjo by johndaniellane

here's a little tribute to a unique instrumental album called Cadillac Rag released in 1991 on Hartford's Small Dog a Barkin' label.

casey's hp - cyril stinnett by johndaniellane

clyde durst's tune - cyril stinnett by johndaniellane

coming down from denver - bob walters by johndaniellane

coming up the pike - art galbraith, who isn't a missouri valley fiddler, strictly speaking by johndaniellane

old melinda - bob walters by johndaniellane

oyster river quadrille - bob walters via dwight lamb by johndaniellane

salty river reel - casey jones by johndaniellane

natchez by johndaniellane

a quintessential bob walters A tune

stoney point by johndaniellane

this 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.

keith 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.

fiddler jones by johndaniellane

charlie walden says some peole play a very similar tune as "richmond cotillion"

an 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#

archive.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.

gilsaw by johndaniellane

evan collins/banjo, tessa dillon/fiddle, john lane/guitar

evan collins/banjo, chris kimmons/guitar, tessa dillon/fiddle, john lane/fiddle

bull at the wagon by johndaniellane

a tune by jordan wankoff, folk-processed by emily schaad and/or roger netherton.

this is a cool crooked grey eagle from pete mcmahan, a champion of missouri fiddling. http://missourifolkloresociety.truman.edu/McMahan.html

this is a song about the past and future of the american midwest.

one of my favorite Bb cyril stinnett hornpipes.

take me back to tulsa by johndaniellane

redwing by johndaniellane

from 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.

the playing exceeds the engineering, as usual.

five miles out of town/johnny don't come home drunk/smith's reel by johndaniellane

a 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!

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=biVSLSsOwwo

taken 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/

from bob walters.

from 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 occupation, was among fiddlers performing regularly over state-owned radio station WOS, which broadcast from the dome of the Capitol from 1923 to 1933. Lyman started out playing back-up guitar for Gilmore, but soon became interested in fiddling himself. Lyman recalled that he already had all the tunes in head – he just needed to learn them on the fiddle. He practiced for over a year before he would play in front of Gilmore. In 1930 Lyman made his first public appearance over WOS. The announcer, Captain Jack Heiny, called on Lyman to play a tune. Not knowing the title, Heiny announced extemporaneously, “Let’s call it Back in ’89.” The title stuck. In the 1940s, Lyman Enloe moved to Kansas City where he worked as a painter. At this point he put his music aside for over two decades. In the late 1960s he became acquainted with several local Bluegrass musicians. His notey and driving style of playing fit well with the group and after a number of successful engagements the Bluegrass Association was formed. The Bluegrass Association consisted of Lyman on fiddle, Chuck Stearman on mandolin, Jim McGreevy on banjo, Don Montgomery on bass and John Bennett on guitar. The group played together for 13 years and cut four albums. Personal commitments caused the Association to disband in 1981. Veterans of the Bluegrass festival circuit still regard them as one of the Bluegrass groups to come out of Missouri. It is worth noting that Lyman was a great admirer of Bluegrass fiddle innovator Kenny Baker. Lyman played many of this tunes was himself held in high regard by the “master of Bluegrass fiddle.”

hear more cyril stinnett on the missouri fiddling bandcamp page!

I 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.

little spotted pony by johndaniellane

from john's awesome cadillac rag album.

from one of Jim and Kim's CDs, which can be got here. http://www.kimandjim.com/

art 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.

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-hornpipe

I 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.