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| Version | User | Scope of changes |
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| Nov 1 2007, 11:21 PM EDT (current) | rcogswell | 123 words added |
| Oct 19 2007, 10:16 AM EDT | LeslieGail | 94 words added |
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| Dixie Banner | Hubie says: I noticed that Bill Babcock’s last jam played a tune called “Dixie Banner.” They may or may not have known that this is an original composition by Tony Ellis, and was the title cut on his first recording, issued on Flying Fish Cassette FF90444 in 1987. It has been taken up by old-time musicians. (It has since been reissued on a CD: FF 70444.) Recently, it was recorded by Palmer Loux, but I was playing it with Mary Briggs back in the 1990s for both pig roasts and wedding recessionals! |
Jump Fingers | Rich says: This tune is #55 in R.P. Christeson's "Old-Time Fiddler's Repertory" (Volume 1), and is one of the tunes in the accompanying 2-LP set of field recordings. Christeson recorded Nebraska fiddler "Uncle" Bob Walters playing this tune in 1949. He reports that Walters got the title and the tune years earlier from George Pounds, another Nebraska fiddler. It was also recorded by Missouri fiddler Lonnie Robertson and can be heard on the Rounder CD "Lonnie's Breakdown". (For sound clips, search http://www.rounder.com/ for Lonnie Robertson.) I also have a couple of cassette tapes with the Ill-Mo Boys playing this tune. A valuable Web resource which includes this and other tunes from Christeson's book, in standard musical notation and tablature, is http://www.mountainsentinel.com/fiddlebanjo.php |
