Here’s Riley Baugus and Dirk Powell performing June Apple
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All posts tagged “old time music”
Boatin’ up Sandy
Sometimes I like playing those strange old “mountain modal” Old Time tunes on the banjo. They typically have a simple structure and a hypnotic quality that seems like it comes from someplace very distant in place and time. Here’s me playing one called Boatin’ up… Read More
Fiddle and Buckdancing….
go together like toast and jam…. This video features Frank Fairfield on fiddle. I’ve only recently stumbled across Mr. Fairfield’s music. He also plays guitar and banjo. Here at 27th Street, we love his playing. I hope one day he comes up to play Toronto!
Little Billy Wilson
I don’t know any history on this tune or if there really was a Little Billy Wilson or not. It sounds like once upon a time it lived in Ireland. Here are The Knuckle Dusters
Keep my Skillet Greasy
Keep my Skillet Greasy has to be among my fave song titles. Keep my skillet greasy all the time. That’s what I’m talkin’ about. Here’s Frank Fairfield with a killer performance. Mr. Fairfield is a dangerous banjo picker. Keep my skillet greasy all the time… Read More
Western Country
One of my fave Old Time tunes is Susananah Gal, also known as Western Country and Fly around my pretty little miss. I hope you like this one as much as I do. Here’s a version by the Whiskey Bent Valley Boys… Here is the… Read More
Over the Waterfall
I love the Old Time fiddle and banjo tune, Over the Waterfall. Here are a few different approaches to it, beginning with Dave Hum fingerpicking it… It has a different feel played clawhammer. This version was posted by Kenneth William Elkington. Very nice. And Ryan… Read More
Hell Among the Yearlings
Hell Among the Yearlings has to be one of the best song titles in Old Time music. It’s also a great fiddle tune. Here are the Mountain Boomers String Band at JC’s Fish and BBQ Knoxville, Arkansas
Why Traditional Music?…installment #984
Doc Watson and Jack Lawrence picking Black Mountain Rag. Does that answer your question?
What is Old Time Music?
`Old time music’ may suggest sounds rooted in pre-mass media Americana, but it is no less a marketing label than is `urban’ (contemporary black music) or `young country’ (post-Garth Nashville pop). It’s just an older sales hook.
Check out this excellent article by Mark Humphrey at the Old Time Music Home Page
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