Tom and Carol Fielder, my grandparents, made their home in northwest Oklahoma near the town of Ames in Major County. From George H. Shirk’s Oklahoma Place Names, I learned that prior to 1902, that tiny berg was called Hoyle, after Hoyle Creek which is a tributary to the Cimarron River. As my mind wandered over the decades of my own life, and I came to be a writer of songs tinged with nostalgia, it entered my artist’s narrative that Hoyle is not a place lost to time. New Hoyle exists wherever I am, and you will come to know that place when you listen to these recordings, Welcome to New Hoyle. Mostly written and polished in a Norman, OK house built in 1904 and torn down in 2021, these songs are another installment in the chronicles of New Hoyle, a place with no location and a time with no frame. 
In the third week of August, 2021, the human population of New Hoyle (Boudreaux the dog stayed home) drove the van to Bristol, VA, for the opportunity to record with Jon Atkinson at BigTone Records. Kansas City musicians The Matchsellers, Andrew Morris and Julie Bates (banjo/mandolin/guitar and fiddle), and Norman sousaphonist Charley Reeves rounded out the band of long time New Hoyle residents. All three lent their fine playing, as well as...  more
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released December 3, 2021 

Brad Fielder - vocals, guitar, harmonica, banjo 
Charley Reeves - sousaphone 
Julie Bates - fiddle, vocals 
Andrew Morris - banjo, mandolin, guitar, vocals 
Jon Atkinson - engineer 

all songs written by Bradley Allan Fielder (BMI) 
except Roll On Buddy (trad.) 
all songs arranged by Fielder, Reeves, Bates, Morris 
recorded live direct to mono tape at Bigtone Records in Bristol, VA, August 18 & 19, 2021 
mixed and mastered by Jon Atkinson 
photography by Doug Hill 
layout by Brad Fielder

Forgetter's Prayer

If It Weren't For Myself I'd Be OK

Goose On The Loose

It's As Easy As That

Intro

Recorded August 18 and 19, 2021, during the 'Welcome to New Hoyle' sessions at Bigtone Records in Bristol, VA. 
Captured live to mono tape and mastered by Jon Atkinson.
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released January 7, 2022 

Brad Fielder: vocals, guitar, banjo 
Charley Reeves: sousaphone 
Julie Bates: fiddle 
Andrew Morris: mandolin 
Jon Atkinson: engineer

Lay Down Boudreaux

Hundred Dollar Walk

Pokeweed Gospel

Brad Fielder: vocals, acoustic guitar
Charley Reeves: sousaphone
Jesse Armerding: drums, percussion
Brandon Brunious: electric guitar
Megan Harris Brunious: accordion
Juel Niimi: trombone

engineered, mixed, and mastered by Jon Atkinson at Bigtone Records, New Orleans, 2023

written by Bradley Allan Fielder BMI (C) 2024 (P) TomLo Music

Demons+Rationals

Little Lake Turnaround

from the Rack & Ruin Records Christmas compilation "Jingle Bell Rack"
rrr196 (c) 2010 Rack & Ruin records

written, produced and recorded by Bradley Allan Fielder

Jingle Bell Rack

You Can't Take Santa's Stuff

Musician and songwriter Brad Fielder is a diligent student of early 20th century American music. As a one man band, he can be found performing on both the street and the stage.
It's folk music for all folks.

Brad Fielder

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