The fiddle tune "Halifax", from NH Mills, by way of Armin Barnett. Fiddle tuned to cross-G.

Squarch

Halifax

A quick recording for the Heartland Traditional Music & Fans facebook group.

Heartland Traditional Music & Fans

Coleman's March

The voice quality of this IVR system is almost incomprehensibly bad.

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I've had some version of this tune pop into my head on and off for years. I have no idea where it came from. Is it something I might have heard years ago and be misremembering now?

Unknown - is this something I'm remembering, or making up?

This is the first time I've played bass in ... I dunno, almost ten years, maybe? And I went way overboard on reverb and compression on the fiddles, but I was playing with the parameters to see what they did and wasn't really going for "sounds good". I learned this tune today, so it's rough, but I like it. It was written by Eric Merrill.

Hell And Grace

Part of a concert at the 1987 Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, recorded on a janky boombox with a loose microphone. I'd apologize for the quality, but it's a cassette tape from 1987, and I was 13 when I recorded it. I'm amazed it exists at all.

Horse Flies FAFT 1987

From a jam at the Portland Old-Time Gathering. The mic was at my feet facing away from me, so the fiddle's pretty quiet, but I can hear myself recover from some mistakes and get a couple complicated runs right, so I'm pretty happy.

Spotted Pony

Written by Trevor Stuart, of the Stuart Brothers. Check out their album at the Old-Time Tiki Parlour! 

Recorded through a slapback delay and octave pedal.

Shed Recordings

Henry King's Reel

Learned this from the playing of Nokosee Fields this afternoon. I don't know where it comes from, because it's not quite Bill Monroe or Kenny Baker's Uncle Pen, but it's obviously based on it. Someone in the chat said it sounded like "Melvin's", but I don't know which Melvin. Melvin Wine, maybe?

(Melvin's?) Uncle Pen

Bryan Bowers recorded a cover of this, but I don't think Mark Graham ever did. I found this on an unlabeled cassette tape in a box I've probably opened only once in the last twenty years before today, when I moved the tapes into a sturdier box. I recorded this at Folklife, or maybe Bumbershoot, probably in 1987 or 1988. Sure wish I'd labeled any of those tapes.

Mark Graham - Oral

The alarming noise our broody chicken made. (Chicken in photo is not ours, but ours looked about as angry about being disturbed.)

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