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The Old 78's
The Old 78's music recreates the WILD ENERGY and DRIVING FORCE of the great Hillbilly Fiddle Bands. "They sound like a freight train coming through your living room!" exclaimed Phil Jamison during Dance Week-End at The Ozark Folk Center. The duo presents fiddle, banjo and kazoo arrangements from the Ragtime, Old Time, Early Jazz, Charleston and Jug Band eras using extremely LARGE to surprisingly small banjos and Curly's 24k gold-plated kazoo! They are also widely known for their Classic Banjo Duets from the Early Ragtime period, a 3-finger style that was all the rage from about 1885-1915. They have popularized the 5-string Cello Banjo now available from Gold Tone. Their most recent collaboration with 2 fabulous musicians, Ray and Melanie Palmer, introduces the addition of Baritone Sax, Clarinet, and Banjo-Mandolin to their varied repertoire - a sound that must be heard to be believed!
Horse Shoe Bend
Listen
- I Lost my Love and I Care Not
- Horse Shoe Bend
- The Old Countryman's Reel
HORSE SHOE BEND was just released in 2004 and is over one hour long with 26 great fiddle tunes! Curly plays the fiddle on all of the tunes and bowed bass on about half of the selections. Carole Anne plays either the 6-String or Moulton on all but two selections. Curly's tune source is listed along with the instrumentation for each piece.
Gail Gillespie, Editor of The Old Time Herald says:
"WOW! I Love your Horse Shoe Bend!...You have a Unique sound. Your great rhythm shows you've played for lots of dances! Great "old" sounding tunes - love the steady, deep banjo and bowed bass!"
Tunelist
- Swamp Cat Rag, Lowe Stokes from Document-DOCD-8045 Fiddle (AEAE), Moulton
- Hiram Allen's Tune, Dwight "Red" Lamb on "Joseph Won a Coated Fiddle" (Rounder-0429) Fiddle (GCAE), 6-String, Bass
- Duffy The Dancer, Neil Nolan from "Farewell to Ireland" (Proper Records-P1109) Fiddle, 6-String
- I Lost My Love and I Care Not, The McCusker Brothers Ceilidh Band from "Traditional Dance Music of Ireland" (Saydisc-CD-SDL-420) Fiddle, 6-String, Bass
- Salty River Reel, Cyril Stinnett (MSOTFA-104) Fiddle (AEAE), Moulton
- Moze Haymar Jig, Tune source listed as Boston, 1845 in Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy by Hans Nathan, 1962 Fiddle.
- Horse Shoe Bend, Stripling Brothers (Document-DOCD-8007) Fiddle, 6-String, Bass
- Dance to Your Daddy, Old Traditional British Isles Song Fiddle, 6-String, Bass
- Give the Fiddler a Dram, Carter Brothers and Son (Document-DOCD-8009) Fiddle (AEAE), Moulton
- The Old Countryman's Reel, Christeson's and Bob Walters Fiddle, 6-String, Bass
- Shag Poke, Dwight "Red" Lamb (Rounder 0429)
- Little Dog Trotting Down the River, Cyril Stinnett (MSOTFA-103) Fiddle (AEAE), Moulton
- Frog's Frolic/Three Little Drummers, Coles Fiddle, 6-String, Bass
- Katy Did, Lowe Stokes (Document-DOCD-8045) Fiddle (AEAE), 6-String
- Dusty Miller, John Brown from "Great Big Yam Potatoes" (Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History #AH-002) Fiddle (AEAE), Moulton
- E.M. Hall's No. 2, Coes Fiddle, 6-String, Bass
- Skin Britches With Hatch, Edwin Johnson from "The American Swedish Spelmans Trio" (Rounder 6004) Fiddle, 6-String, Bass
- Done Gone, Eck Robertson (County 5515) Fiddle, 6-String, Bass
- Medley of 3 Polkas, two Danish and one Hungarian, Danish from "Jae' Sweevers egnsmusic fra Fano" (Fanomusik-CD 1992-1), Hungarian from "Kalman Balough and Meta-Gypsy Music From Hungarian Villages" (Arc 1373) Fiddle, 6-String, Bass
- Bunker Hill/Sligo Reel, John Vesey from "Sligo Fiddler" Fiddle
- Jenny on the Railroad, Carter Brothers and Son (Document DOCD-8009) Fiddle (AEAE), 6-String
- Tater Vals, Craig Ruble (Banjar Records-ER-901) Fiddle, 6-String