My friend Louis-a master of old-time meter on the fiddle. My Dad (Math Deatherage) has always said that Louis is like a metronome! Known this man most of my life & truly admire him! :))

Lost Indian

Hornpipe In D Major

A special jam session of 3 Grand National Champion fiddlers recorded late one night in June of 2013 at the Colonial Inn in Weiser, ID. Luke Price on Fiddle, Matthew Hartz on Guitar, Tristan Clarridge on Tenor Guitar. 

Cold Rolled Steel - Luke Price, Matthew Hartz, and Tristan Clarridge

Polka Dots and Moonbeams

I believe this is the first time Terry Morris met and played for the Texas fiddle great Norman Solomon in 1987. Joey McKenzie on guitar and Betty Solomon on piano. 

Thanks to Bubba Hopkins for the recording. 

Terry Morris — Shuckin' The Bush

Clarinet Polka in A. Daniel Carwile on fiddle. Scott & Anne Sumner  and Bob Gardener on guitar. Stephen Schauer on tenor guitar. 

Daniel Carwile - Clarinet Polka In A - Atherton Jam

from an album I made in 1992 called "Championship Fiddlin"
with Sir Rex Gillentine on his Epiphone Texan & Gibson Super 400 CES (overdubbed) and Sir Jerry Thomasson on his Martin 018T :) - Rex & myself weren't thrilled with the electric guitar tone that made it to the record - but listening now, it adds a cool retro sound to those wonderful lines Rex is playing! And then there's Jerry :))) I feel so blessed and fortunate to have made music with these legends

Shuckin' The Bush

Portland boasts quite a community of western swing and countrified singer-songwriters and fiddlers. We had the pleasure of welcoming Aarun, who recently won the Oregon State Fiddle Championship, and Jonathan who plays with Aarun as a duo and with their band Well Swung. Never a dull moment. Don't miss Jonathan's spot-on assessment of Merle Haggard and what made him so very special. Not a cynical bone in this session. 

Drop-In Session: Aarun and Jonathan

and yet another :) from the unreleased 2003 album with Jerry Thomasson and Anthony Mature

06 The 8th of January

1984 Western Open Fiddle Contest

Terry Morris - fiddle
Joey McKenzie - tenor guitar
Matt Hartz - standard guitar

this is an incredible memory for me that my friend, Lesli Jo Osborne, found and shared with me early this year.  I've been excited to share it with the fiddle community especially since few got to witness the extraordinary, truly spontaneous, masterful breakdown fiddling of the late, VERY great, Terry Morris first hand.

I can't think of a greater dream for myself at 15 years old than to play guitar with Terry Morris in a fiddle contest and I know Joey would have similar sentiments.  What a ride :)



13 Dusty Miller - Terry Morris, Joey McKenzie, Matthew Hartz

recording from Texas Fiddle Favorites record.  Love, love, love me some Louis fiddling!!

Cotton Patch Rag by Louis Franklin

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