From Field, Event, & Home Recordings

Plus selected historic recordings from early 78rpm phonodiscs and published albums
Artist
ID# Project* Hometown or recording location - recording year.
Personnel & instrumentation. Contextual information.
Recorded selections
*hover for full project title

Glenn Abbott

GL102 EIU Mattoon, Illinois - 1983. With Bill Rutherford (caller) and unidentified (guitar, vocal, & rhythm machine). Square dance in the community hall in LaPlace, Illinois. (Glenn is the son of Jesse James Abbott.)

  • Eight of January-Rush and the Pepper
  • standard schottishce
  • unnamed breakdown in A
  • She's Just Gettin' Even
  • Hurry, Hurry, Hurry
  • Under the Double Eagle-Ragtime Annie
  • Beer Barrel Polka
  • Arkansas Traveler

GL114 EIU - 1991. With unknown accompanists at Illinois Fiddlers' Association meeting in Shelbyville, Illinois.

  • Back Up and Push
  • Hell Amongst the Yearlings
  • Durang's Hornpipe
  • unnamed tune in C

Jesse James Abbott

GL203 IMH Toledo, Illinois - c1977. Recorded and shared by Garry Harrison.

  • Little Bird in the Ash Brook

Howard Armstrong

GL027 Tennessee to Detroit - 1982. With Ted Bogan (guitar & vocals). Lark Productions concert in Bear's Back Room in Bloomington, Indiana.

  • Lady Be Good
  • Armstrong Boogie
  • John Henry
    with Peter Roller on dobro
  • Riding Down the Canyon
  • Sheik of Araby
  • A Thousand Good Nights

DD115 - 1930. 78s - Tennesse Chocolate Drops. With Roland (guitar) & Carl Martin (bass). 78s - Vocalion Records. (Search DD115 for others.)

  • Knox County Stomp
  • Vine Street Rag

- 1934. 78 Louie Bluie. With Ted Bogan (guitar). 78 - Bluebird Records.

  • Ted's Stomp

MP-008 - 1972. LP - Martin, Bogan & Armstong. Barnyard Dance.

  • French Blues
  • Knox County Stomp

MF099 - 1985. LP - Louie Bluie.

  • Du, du, Lichst Mir im Herzen
  • Railroad Blues

John Baltzell

DD101 & 103 Mt. Vernon, Ohio - 1923. With John F. Burckhardt on piano. 78s - Edison Records. From the collections of Joe Bussard and Paul Gifford. (See also Jasper Bisbee & William Houchens.)

  • Old Red Barn Medley Quadrille (Old Red Barn/Buckboard/Whiffle Tree)
  • Buckeye Medley Quadrille (Buckeye Quadrille/Hoosier/Red Ear)
  • Drunken Sailor Medley (Drunken Sailor/Indian Fancy/Leather Breeches)
  • S.J. Rafferty Reel rec. 1928

Johnny Barnhart

GL115 EIU Sorrento, Illinois - 1992. Acc. by Paul Tyler (guitar).

  • A Little Bit of Nothin'
  • Green Corn
  • Black Velvet Waltz
  • Green Valley Waltz
  • Marmaduke's Hornpipe
  • Old German Waltz
  • Italian Waltz
  • Ragtime Annie

Noah Beavers

GL203 IMH Elkhorn, Illinois - c1977. Recorded and shared by Garry Harrison.

  • Rabbit in the Woodpile
  • Fox and the Hounds (Fox Chase)

GL206 IMH Charleston, Illinois - 1979. Performance at EIU Celebration of the Arts. Original recording in the Tarble Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University.

  • Billy Butler
  • Goin' to London

Ove Bergerson & the Bergerson Family

EF018 Hixton, Wisconsin - 1982. Including Norma (wife) on piano Renee (banjo) & Russell (fiddle & bass) Bergerson. LP - Across the Fields: Traditional Norwegian-American Music from Wisconsin. (See also Blom Family & Leonard Finseth.)

  • Pete Peterson's Schottische
  • Square Dance Tune

Jasper "Jep" Bisbee

DD101 Paris, Michigan - 1923. With Beulah Bisbee Schuler on piano. 78s - Edison Records. From the collections of Joe Bussard and Paul Gifford. (See also John Baltzell & William Houchens.)

  • Money Musk
  • Girl I Left Behind Me Medley (w/ St. Patrick's Day in the Morning/
    Turkey in the Straw/Arkansas Traveler)
  • College Hornpipe
  • Opera Reel rec. 1928

LeRoy Blom & the Blom Family

EF018 Blair, Wisconsin - 1982. Including Mark (fiddle), Lisa (piano) & Kevin (fiddle) Blair. LP - Across the Fields: Traditional Norwegian-American Music from Wisconsin. (See also Bergerson Family & Leonard Finseth.)

  • Evergreen Waltz
  • Isaac Nelson's Hoppwaltz

Patrick Bonner

Beaver Island, Michigan - 1938-40. Selections published in Beaver Island House Party and American Fiddle Tunes: From the Archive of Folk Song.

AF439 - 1938. Recorded by Ivan Walton & Alan Lomax.

  • Callahan's Reel
  • Black and Tar on a Stick/Up and Down The Broom

AA015 - 1940. Recorded by Ivan Walton.

  • The Wind that Shook the Barley
  • The Maid of Kildare

Emil Boulanger

AA288 Dycksville, Wisconsin - 1946. Recorded by Helen Stratman-Thomas. Selections from Mills Music Library Wisconsin Folksong Collection. (See also CD/book - Folksongs of Another America and cassette album Wisconsin Patchwork.

  • dance tune
  • old-time dance tune

Leizime Brusoe

Rhinelander, Wisconsin - 1937-40. Selections from Mills Music Library Wisconsin Folksong Collection and American Fiddle Tunes: From the Archive of Folk Song.

AF527 - 1937. Recorded by Sidney Robertson.

  • Sam Gray's Reel
  • Sicilian Circle

AA015 - 1940. Recorded by Helene Stratman.

  • French Four (Soldier's Joy)
  • Quadrille

Ervie Burge

GL006 IFG Champaign, Illinois - 1980. Acc. (perhaps) by Jim Mikel (guitar) at Tippecanoe Battlefield Memorial in Battle Ground, Indiana.

  • Grey Eagle
  • unnamed tune

AA008 - 1975. LP - Ladies on the Flatboat: The Third Battle Ground Fiddlers Gathering

  • Lumberjack

AA009 - 1974. LP - Hollow Poplar: The Second Battle Ground Fiddlers' Gathering

  • Red Apple Rag

AA020 - 1973. LP - Sop'n Up Gravy: The First Battle Ground Fiddlers' Gathering

  • Sally Goodin
  • White Horse Breakdown

Bill Cameron

MF005 PGCo Brimley, Michigan - c1976. Acc. by Art LeBlanc on piano at the Bay Mills Community Center Recorded and shared by Paul Gifford.

  • Devil Shake the Half Breed
  • breakdown in G
  • [Sauger Lake Quadrille]
  • unnamed quadrille in F

Marion "Rusty" Chesny

GL216 Bay City, Michigan - 1977. Acc. by Tim Riggs on banjo & Jim Chesney (son) on guitar. Recorded and shared by Jim Chesney.

  • A & D Polka
  • unnamed
  • Chum Cha Dim-Chim
  • Roll On You Lazy River

  • from a jam session at Adler House
  • Chicken Reel-Little Brown Jug-Turkey in the Straw
  • Krakowiac

Joe Cloud

AA303 Odanah, Wisconsin - 1938. Recorded by Alan Lomax. CD/book - Folksongs of Another America.

  • Red River Jig
  • White River Two-Step

John "Doc" Corn

AF528 Akin, Illinois - 1976. Unknown accompanists. Recorded by Larry Corn (son). Shared by Chirps Smith.

  • Cacklin' Hen
  • Rabbit in the Rail Pile

Junior Daugherty

GL144 ITT New Mexico to Blackhawk, Illinois - 1994. Acc by Colin McCoy on guitar. Adler House World Music Festival in Libertyville, Illinois.

  • Jesse Polka
  • Junior's Waltz
  • Cattle Call
  • Listen to the Mockingbird

Henry Davis

AF042 Hamilton, Ohio - 1938. Recorded by Alan Lomax. LP - Folk Music of Ohio, 1938 through 1940.

  • Snappin' Bug
  • Hogs in a Corn Field

Arlin Dietz

GL101 EIU Decatur, Illinois - 1983. Acc. by Mervin "Skeet" Evans & Kenny Williams (guitars & vocals).

  • Cheat or Swing
  • unnamed tune
  • unnamed waltz
  • The Wabash Cannonball
  • John Henry
  • unnamed tune
  • Sal's Got a Wooden Leg
  • [Waiting for the Federals]

Mel Durham

Wayne County to Pontiac, Illinois to Long Beach, California. Recorded at California Traditional Music Society's New Year's Camp in Malibu.

HT010 - 1994. With Tom Sauber on banjo. Workshop recording.

  • Jingle at the Window Tideo
  • story about Bob Rogers
  • Drunk Old Man
  • Whoa Mule, Can't Get Your Bridle On
  • Hezekiah

HT014 - 1995. Acc. by Paul Tyler on guitar.

  • Skillet Fork
  • Johnny Booker
  • family history
  • Pussy and the Baby
  • Little Rabbit Where's You're Mammy

AF472 Long Beach, California - 2000 to 2003. CD - Skillet Fork: The Southern Illinois Tunes of Mel Durham.

  • Coming Through the Canebrake
  • Alonzo Jones
  • Wayne County Shuffle
  • Hezzie's Waltz

Stelle Elam

Brownstown, Illinois - 1963 to c1970. Recorded and shared by Lyle Mayfield.

AF165 - 1963. LP - Green Fields of Illinois.

  • Green Fields of America
  • Stoney Point
  • Crow Creek-Jay Bird-Tennessee Wagoner
  • Buffalo Nickle

AF448 - c1970. Cassette - Buddies: Old Time Fiddling As It Was.

  • Billy in the Low Ground
  • Jenny Lind Polka
  • Sam and Elsie
  • Uncle Jack's Tune

Varsel Fales

AF467 Otsego, Michigan - c1985. With Les Raber (fiddle & piano). At the Raber farmhouse near Hastings, Michigan. Shared by Jim McKinney.

  • Bill White
  • square dance tune
  • Jane_Oaker
  • Miller's Reel (twin fiddles)

AF466 Otsego, Michigan - c1980. Unknown accompanists. Shared by Jim McKinney.

  • Wheels
  • Red Apple Rag
  • Rickett's Hornpipe

Leonard Finseth

EF024 Mondovi, Wisconsin - 1979. LP - the Hills of Old Wisconsin.

  • Clarence Johnson's Polka
  • Fred Nelson's Jig
  • Polksa från Småland

EF018 - 1982. LP - Across the Fields: Traditional Norwegian-American Music from Wisconsin.(See also Bergerson Family & Blom Family.)

  • Polka in G
  • Randi Severson's Waltz

Bob Fleck

GL002 Detroit to California - 1977. With the New American Swinette Orchestra: Bill Webster (hammer dulcimer) & Jane ___ (guitar). Concert and square dance at Lizard in the Spring coffee house in Berkley, Michigan. Recorded and shared by Al Smitley.

  • Portland Fancy
  • Red Haired Boy-Money Musk-Wake Up Susan-Devil Shake the Half Breed-Chorus Jig

Lynn Frederick

GL260 FCW Brady Lakes, Ohio - 2011. With Fred Campeau (banjo) & Steve Rosen (guitar) at the Atlantic Bar & Grill.

  • Cauliflower
  • Sugar Barrel
  • Been All Around This World
  • Putner's Run

Jesse Gatton

AF080 Danbury, Wisconsin - c1959. Unknown accompanists. Home recordings shared by a member of the family.

  • Darius Connor's Waltz
  • Grasshopper Settin' on a Sweet Potato Vine
  • Bill Emerson's Tune [Ten Strike]
  • Quadrille in D
  • Seven Hands Round [Buffalo Gals]
  • St. Paul Waltz

Paul Gifford

GL004 Ferndale, Michigan - 1978. Recorded on a visit to DrDosido's home near Unionville, Indiana.

  • Big Rock Getaway
  • Jig in Bb & F
  • Ellsworth's Quadrille
  • Breakdown in A
  • Unnamed C tune-Blackberry Quadrille-Postun's Jig
  • Jumpin' Toothache II

GL008 IFG - 1981. At Tippecanoe Battlefield Memorial in Battle Ground, Indiana.

  • Moneymusk (with Les Raber on fiddle)
  • Whitefish on the Rapids-Devil Shake the Half Breed
  • Irish Trot (Les & Rosemary Raber lead set of dancers)

GL160 Hillsdale, Michigan - 1997. Unknown accompanists at the North Central Regional Fiddlers Convention

  • F & Dm Quadrille
  • F & Dm Breakdown
  • C & Am Quadrille

Odie Griffth

GL203 IMH Greenup, Illinois - c1977. Recorded and shared by Garry Harrison.

  • unnamed jig
  • Muddy Road to Kansas

Helen Gross

AF064 Saline, Michigan - 1980. Acc. by Bob Hubbard or Paul Tyler on piano at the 3rd Tyler-Mahaffee Gathering in Saline. Recorded and shared by Al Smitley. (See also Ray Shepherd.)

  • Socker Boettger's Tune
  • Republican Set, First Change
  • Republican Set, First Change
  • Year of Jubilo (with Ray Shepherd)
  • Pacific Quadrille, First Change
  • Pacific Quadrille, First Change

Henry Hall

GL209 IMH Cave-in-Rock, Illinois - 1953. Recorded by Millie Angleton for the David S. McIntosh Collection of Illinois Folk Songs, held by The University Museum at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, and the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University in Bloomington.

  • Rock Creek (with dance calls)
  • Lucian Smith
  • John Deigh
  • Greensleeves

John Hannah

AF096 Columbus, Ohio - 1984. Recorded by Jeff Goehring & Howard Sacks. LP - Seems Like Romance to Me: Traditional Fiddle Tunes from Ohio.

  • Coon in a Treetop
  • Cumberland Blues

Cliff Hardesty

AF096 Coshocton County, Ohio - 1984. Recorded by Jeff Goehring & Howard Sacks. LP - Seems Like Romance to Me: Traditional Fiddle Tunes from Ohio.

  • Heel and Toe Polka
  • Soldier's Joy

Garry Harrison

GL152 ITT Charleston, Illinois (to Bloomington, Indiana) - 1996. Acc. by Chris German on guitar. Adler House Fiddlers' Reunion in Libertyville, Illinois.

  • Fletcher's tune
  • Lady of the Lake
  • Why Don't You Shovel?
  • Kentucky Reel
  • Devil in the Haystack
  • Rush and the Pepper

AF438 ACC Libertyville, Illinois - 1984. Adler House Illinois Traditional Music Award honoring Harvey "Pappy" Taylor.

    on stage with the Indian Creek Delta Boys
  • Prairie Du Rocher Motion
  • Stonewall Jackson

  • after concert dance and jam
  • Uncle Joe (dance calls by Tony Scarimbolo)
  • Flop-Eared Mule

GL154 Bushton, Illinois - 1982. Recorded and shared by Joe Samojedny.

  • Old Mother Logo
  • 'Ol Woodyard
  • Joe Wingeter's Tune
  • Old Mose
  • Salem Hornpipe

Robert Hilbert

GL215 Eaton, Ohio - 2005. Interviewed by Paul Tyler for Starr-Gennett Foundation oral history project.
DD115 Richmond, Indiana - 1934. With Wing's Rocky Mountain Ramblers. 78s - Gennett Records. From the collection of Frank Mare. (Search DD115 for others.)

  • Jackson County Rag
  • In the Blue Hills of Virginia
  • Whiskers
  • Ragtime Annie

Jim Hoiles

GL111 EIU Greenville, Illinois - 1991. Acc. by Bruce Weiss on guitar & fiddle.

  • Durang's Hornpipe
  • The Campbells Are Coming
  • Top of Cork Road
  • Green Grow the Rushes

With Bruce Weiss on fiddle & Paul Tyler on guitar

  • Wilson's Clog
  • Winham's Reel
  • Rocking the Boat
  • Rosin the Bow

AF027 - c1976. LP - Fiddlin' and Pickin' Just a Little Bit Different. Produced and shared by David Johnson.

  • Hoiles' Hornpipe
  • Dusty Miller

AF028 - c1977. LP - Mixin' It Up with Jim Hoiles. Produced and shared by David Johnson.

  • Styleberg's Swedish Waltz
  • Cuckoo's Nest

Rollie Hommon

AF096 Newark, Ohio - 1984. Recorded by Jeff Goehring & Howard Sacks. LP - Seems Like Romance to Me: Traditional Fiddle Tunes from Ohio.

  • Baltzell's Tune
  • Snowshoes

Wm. B. Houchens

DD101 Dayton, Ohio - 1922. With unknown piano. 78s - Gennett Records. From the collection of Paul Wells. (See also John Baltzell & Jasper Bisbee.)

  • Bob Walker/Collins Reel
  • College Hornpipe-Hel'n Georgia

John Hutchison

AF454 Barnesville, Ohio - 1977. Home recordings. Shared by Kerry Blech.

  • Cowboy's Dream
  • Three Thin Dimes
  • Two White Nickels
  • unnamed jig or quadrille

Ruby John

GL233 Traverse City, Michigan - 2008. Acc. by Jim Chesney (guitar) & Lee Sloan (bass), teacher of the teenaged Ms. John.

  • Crooked Stovepipe
  • May Time Swing
  • Metis tune
  • Logger's Breakdown
  • Birth of the Blues
  • Big John McNeill
  • Beer Keg
  • My Dungannon Sweetheart

Danny Johnston

GL156 Harbor Springs, Michigan - 1997. Unknown accompanists and caller at the Original Michigan Fiddlers Association Jamboree in Hastings.

  • Lady of the Lake
  • Quadrille in G & D
  • unnamed tune (figure: Sashay By Your Partner)
  • Climbing Up Them Golden Stairs
  • Cabri Waltz
  • unnamed two-step

Harry Jones

GL204 IMH Funkhouser, Illinois - c1960. Acc. by Mike Wilson on guitar. Home recordings from the collection of Ron Brown. (See also Harvey "Pappy" Taylor.)

  • Wild Goose
  • unnamed tune

Charles Keele

GL108 EIU Westville, Illinois - 1983. Acc. by Paul Tyler (guitar).

  • Pennsylvania Polka
  • Fisher's Hornpipe (D & A Tune)
  • [Pigtown Fling]
  • unnamed polka
  • Life on the Ocean Wave
  • Too Young to Marry
  • Haste to the Wedding
  • Suckin' Baby's Nursing Bottle

Pete Keller

AF078 PGCo Cross Village, Michigan - 1976. Acc. by Paul Gifford on piano. Recorded and shared by Paul Gifford.

  • unnamed D tune
  • unnamed G tune (French tune) [Shenanaquet]

Edward King

AA303 Baraga, Michigan - 1938. Recorded by Alan Lomax. CD/book - Folksongs of Another America.

  • Ida Goyette, No. 1

Lloyd Kilts

GL156 Grand Rapids, Michigan - 1997. Unknown accompanists at the Original Michigan Fiddlers Association Jamboree in Hastings.

  • unnamed waltz [Mockingbird Hill]
  • unnamed tune [Liberty in G]
  • waltz

Edward Kranz

AF680 Huron County, Michigan - 1972. Original tape from the collection of Delores DeRyke. Digital reissue by Missouri State Old-Time Fiddlers Association. See Tunes from the Thumb on Bandcamp.

  • Reel (with minor 2nd part)
  • Reel
  • Waltz
  • 6/8 Quadrille

Jim Lepeak

EF232 Auburn, Michigan - c2000. CD - Twenty Old Polish Tunes. Shared by Jim Chesney.

  • Old Timer's Oberek
  • Beer and Vodka Polka

Tom McCaffrey

GL292 Cleveland, Ohio - 1978. With Frank Barrett & Tom Scott (fiddles). LP - Irish Music from Cleveland, Vol. 2: The Community Tradition.

  • The Mountain Road
  • George Wilson's Favorite

John A. MacDonald

EF009 Detroit - c1965. With Barbara Macdonald on piano. LP - Scottish Fiddling.

  • Buddy's Favorite-Beels of Queensville-Betty Lou's Fancy
  • Bonnie Ann-Memories of Foot Cape-Mrs. Neil R. MacDonald's Reel-The Highlanders Rant

Buddy McDowell

AF709 Van Wert, Ohio to California - c1970. Acc. by Sheila McDowell on guitar. Custom CD Dad & Me shared by Sheila McDowell. (See also Chicago Fiddlers.)

  • Chuck Beal's Caper
  • Garfield's Hornpipe
  • Cincinnati Hornpipe
  • Butcher Boy
  • Coon-Dog
  • Ma's Two-Step

Tom McElroy

GL116 EIU Tower Hill, Illinois - 1992.

  • Thatcher Waltz
  • Sheep's Head Schottische
  • Maggie
  • Old Spanish Two-Step

Bill Misner

GL234 Traverse City, Michigan - c1950. With Gladys Misner (wife) on piano & unknown others. Digitized for Merle Misner (son). Found by Jim Chesney.

  • unnamed tune
  • unnamed polka
  • unnamed jig 1
  • College Hornpipe
  • unnamed breakdown
  • unnamed jig 2

Konrad Nyen

EF021 Belvidere, Illinois - 1984. With Nyen Family: Alvin (mandolin), Ray (guitar), Kerry Nyen (guitar). LP - Tunes from the Amerika Trunk: Traditional Norwegian-American Music from Wisconsin.

  • Skegga Loppa
  • Waltz in A
  • Sam Halvorsen's Hoppwaltz
  • Skunge Jens Waltz

EF211 - 1987. Cassette - Nyens Nordic Band . . . Plays Old-Time Music. With Mack Robertson (banjo & bass) & Bob Wernerehl (bass).

  • Ole Nyen's Waltz
  • Tjock Mari's Valsen
  • Krunke Schottische
  • Oscar Nyen Hoppwaltz

Merritt Olsen

AF075 PGCo Birmingham, Michigan - 1976. Acc. by Paul Gifford on piano. Recorded and shared by Paul Gifford.

  • Charlie Jones Quadrille, 3rd Change
  • Postun's Jig
  • Old Jens #2
  • Tolle Vals

George Pariseau

DD115 PGCo Bad Axe, Michigan - 1929-30. Unknown personnel. 78s - Gennett Records. From the collection of Paul Gifford. (Search DD115 for others.)

  • Wagoner's Hornpipe
  • Fisher's Hornpipe
  • Money Musk-Little Reel
  • Flowers of Edinburg-Sandy Bottoms

Col. John Pattee

DD102 New Boston, Michigan - 1924. 78s - Columbia Records. From the collections of Joe Bussard and Paul Gifford. (See also B.E. Scott & Indiana Fiddlers-Tom Owen's Barn Dance Trio.)

  • Old Catville Quadrille
  • Old Money Musk Quadrille

Don Peterson with the Nordic Cowboys

GL208 IMH Chicago to Paxton, Illinois - 2005. With Joe Hafer (five-string fiddle) & Paul Stewart (keyboard). Demo recorded in Champaign, Illinois and submitted to Illinois Humanities Council Folk Songs of Illinois project.
(See also Pickled Herring in Chicago Fiddlers.)

  • Vallerskigsvalsen
  • Skanklät fron Husby
  • Sträkbräkarläten
  • Kus-Eriks Vals

Cecil Plum

AF096 Massillon, Ohio - 1984. Recorded by Jeff Goehring & Howard Sacks. LP - Seems Like Romance to Me: Traditional Fiddle Tunes from Ohio.

  • Trumpey's Hoedown
  • Laurel Mountain Breakdown

Cecil Polley

GL106 EIU Witt, Illinois - 1983. Recorded and accompanied by John Holliday on guitar.

  • Waverly Two-Step
  • unnamed breakdown in A
  • unnamed waltz in A
  • unnamed waltz in C #1
  • unnamed waltz in C #2
  • Rock the Babies to Sleep

Laurel Premo & Anna Gustavson

GL303 FCW Michigan & Sweden - 2016. Laurel (fiddle & banjo), Anna (nyckelharpa). At Seman Violins.

  • Stay All Night
  • Empty House Waltz
  • Omvända Vallåtspolskan
  • Atlantic Waltz
  • Polska Av Viktor Gabrielsson
  • John Cole

Pete Priest

GL203 IMH Mattoon, Illinois - c1977. Recorded and shared by Garry Harrison.

  • Litchfield
  • Marmaduke's Hornpipe
  • Run Down Boot
  • Pickaway

Cliff Pulliam

GL203 IMH Latona, Illinois - c1977. Recorded and shared by Garry Harrison.

  • Rolling Logs
  • Molly Kiss Your Darling

Les Raber

GL008 IFG Hastings, Michigan - 1981. With Bud Pierce (guitar), Paul Gifford (hammer dulcimer & cimbalom) & Wm. T. White (dulcimer & tuba) at Tippecanoe Battlefield Memorial in Battle Ground, Indiana.

  • Pap and Mam Quadrille
  • Right and Left Six
  • Les Raber's Reel
  • Willow Waltz
  • Devil's Dream
  • Put Your Little Foot
  • Sally Waters
  • Repaz Band
  • Rye Waltz
  • Durang's Hornpipe-Varsel Fales tune

GL142 ITT  - 1994. Acc. by Patt Plunkett (piano) Adler House Fiddlers' Reunion in Libertyville, Illinois.

  • Willow Waltz
  • Acrobatic Reel
  • Red Barn Quadrille
  • Ten Strike Quadrille, Fig 1
  • Ramsey Schottische
  • Ramsey Waltz
  • Shenaniquan [Shenanaquet] (from Pete Keller)

GL143 ITT Next day Jamboree at the American Legion Hall with Paul Tyler (guitar) & Paul Goelz (cello).

  • Big Sandy River
  • Lloyd Kilt's G & C Quadrille

GL156 - 1997. Unknown accompanists and caller. Square dance at the Original Michigan Fiddlers Association Jamboree in Hastings.

  • Right and Left Six
  • Gilderoy (figure: Do-Si Balinet)

GL160 - 1997. With Merle Raber (brother) on tuba, Paul Gifford on dulcimer & unknown others. Square dance at a Fiddlers Jamboree in Hillsdale, Michigan.

  • Tavern in the Town
  • Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight

GL165 Hastings, Michigan - 1998. Acc. by Paul Gifford (hammer dulcimer & guitar) & Paul Tyler (guitar & fiddle).

  • Jane Oaker Quadrille
  • Grandpa's Tune #1
  • Grandpa's Tune #2
  • Great Uncle's Tune
  • Lloyd Kilt's G & C Tune
  • Lloyd Kilts Bb Tune
  • Mrs. Torrey's Two-Step
  • Stewart Carmichael's Two-Step #1
  • Alexander's Reel
  • Louis Dembski Tune

GL168 - 1998. Acc. by Paul Gifford (hammer dulcimer & piano) & Bob Rowland (guitar) at the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes in Port Townsend, Washington

  • Quadrille in C, Am & F
  • Cub Berdan Quadrille
  • Varsel Fales' D Tune (Ticknor's Reel)
  • Park Avenue

Wade Ray

AP077 IMH Evansville, Indiana to Sparta, Illinois - 1967. With Jethro Burns (mandolin) & others. Acc. LP - Down Yonder and Other Old-Time Favorites.

  • Down Yonder
  • Back Up and Push

CO191 & 193 - c1950. 78s. From the collection of Jim Nelson.

  • Hell Among the Yearlings
  • Flop-Eared Mule

Otto Rindlisbacher

AA288 Rice Lake, Wisconsin - 1941. Recorded by Helen Stratman-Thomas. Selections from Mills Music Library Wisconsin Folksong Collection. (See also CD/book - Folksongs of Another America and cassette album Wisconsin Patchwork.

  • Couderay jig
  • Halling
  • Lumberjack dance tune
  • Springar

Ernest Ringo

GL117 EIU Shelbyville, Illinois - 1992. Acc. by Bea Ringo (wife) on piano.

  • Five Miles from Town
  • Soppin' the Gravy
  • Up the Lazy River
  • Clyde's Old Waltz

B.E. Scott

DD102 Mattoon, Illinois - 1924. 78s - Paramount Records. From the collection of Joe Bussard. (See also Col. John Pattee & Chicago Fiddlers-Tom Owen's Barn Dance Trio.)

  • Big Eared Mule
  • The Wagoner

Lonnie Seymour

AF096 Chillicothe, Ohio - 1984. Recorded by Jeff Goehring & Howard Sacks. LP - Seems Like Romance to Me: Traditional Fiddle Tunes from Ohio.

  • Sugar Barrel
  • Chillicothe Two-Step

Arnold Sharp

AF096 Oak Hill, Ohio - 1984. Recorded by Jeff Goehring & Howard Sacks. LP - Seems Like Romance to Me: Traditional Fiddle Tunes from Ohio.

  • Hound Chase
  • Fine Times at Our House

Ray Shepherd

AF064 Hardin County, Ohio to Saline, Michigan - 1980. Acc. by Bob Hubbach or Paul Tyler on piano at the 3rd Tyler-Mahaffee Gathering in Saline. Recorded and shared by Al Smitley. (See also Helen Gross.)

  • Black Mountain Rag
  • Cello
  • Till We Meet Again (duet with Helen Gross)
  • Old Plank Road
  • Peek-a-boo Waltz
  • Birdie

Lloyd "Boot" Shoe

GL146 ACC Thompsonville, Illinois - c1995. Unknown accompanists: The Country Travelers. Home recording gifted to DrDosido on a field trip to southern Illinois.

  • Cindy
  • unnamed tune
  • fast waltz
  • unnamed tune
  • unnamed tune
  • John Henry
  • Little Liza Jane
  • unnamed tune

Ed Showalter

DD115 Eaton, Ohio - 1930. With the Richmond Melody Makers (aka Texas Cowboy Trio). 78s - Gennett Records. (Search DD115 for others.)

  • Pine Tree
  • Eighth of January

Kenny Sidle

AF096 Hanover, Ohio - 1984. Recorded by Jeff Goehring & Howard Sacks. LP - Seems Like Romance to Me: Traditional Fiddle Tunes from Ohio.

  • Brushy Fork
  • Cottage Hill

Gunleik Smedal

DD119 Lacrosse, Wisconsin - 1928. Hardanger fiddle. 78s - Victor Records.

  • Guro Heddeli
  • Giboens Minde

Clay Smith

AF418 Fairview Heights, Illinois - 1992. Acc. by Jim Nelson on guitar. Recorded and shared by Jim Nelson.

  • West Virginia Hornpipe
  • Tom Bigbee Waltz
  • Florida Blues
  • Kansas City Railroad Blues
  • Hell Among the Yearlings
  • Peacock Rag

Lynn "Chirps" Smith

Charleston to Grayslake, Illinois to Lagrange, Wisconsin. (See Chicago Fiddlers.)

Archie Smothers

EIU Pana, Illinois.

GL107 - 1983. Recorded and accompanied by John Holliday on guitar.

  • Jenny Lind Waltz
  • Kentucky Waltz
  • Soldier's Joy

GL114 Shelbyville, Illinois - 1991. At a meeting of the Illinois Fiddlers Association.

  • Must Be Jelly
  • Black Velvet Waltz
  • An Old-Timer Schottische

Ford Stein

AF676 Huron County, Michigan - c1955. With Florence Stein on piano. Recorded by Karl Byarski and shared by Paul Gifford. Original tapes at Genesse Historical Collections Center in the library at University of Michigan-Flint.

  • [Sailors on the Shore] (Tim Stein on piano)
  • Pea Straw
  • McDonald's Reel/ Sandy Bottoms
  • Lancers Quadrille, figure 5, part 2
  • Lardners Reel
  • Needle's Eye Waltz
  • Speed the Plow
  • The Tempest

Tim Stokes

GL147 ITT Buncombe, Illinois - 1995. With Ed Fravell (guitar) at an Adler House Fiddlers' Reunion in Libertyville, Illinois.

  • Golden Slippers
  • Five Cents Worth
  • Sweet Bunch of Daisies
  • Marching Through Georgia

GL163 Buncombe, Illinois - 1995. With Ed Fravell (guitar). Recorded and shared by Jim Nelson.

  • Five Cents Worth
  • Snow Deer
  • When It's Lamplighting Time in the Valley
  • The Girl I Left Behind
  • Bradshaw's Waltz
  • Old-Time Kittypuss
  • Little Betty Brown
  • Leather Britches

Dennis Stroughmatt

GL248 FCW Albion, Illinois - 2010. At the Leadway Bar & Grill.

  • Grand Picnic
  • Jury Baker
  • Voyage au Ste. Genevieve
  • Old Mines Reel

Tony Strzelecki

AA303 Posen, Michigan - 1938. Recorded by Alan Lomax. CD/book - Folksongs of Another America.

  • Irish Washerwoman
  • Polish Polka

Harvey "Pappy" Taylor

AF438 DACC Effingham, Illinois - 1984. With Garry Harrison on guitar for an Adler House Illinois Traditional Music Award concert in Libertyville, Illinois. Recorded and shared by Joe Samojedny and Paul Goelz.

  • Wolf Creek
  • Green River Waltz
  • Tater Roll
  • Flowers of Edinborough
  • Devil in the Haystack
  • acceptance speech

GL203 IMH - c1977. Recorded at EIU Celebration of the Arts and shared by Garry Harrison. Original recording in the Tarble Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University.

  • Old Mother Flanagan
  • Six Pounds of Feathers in a Cuckoo's Nest

GL204 IMH - c1960. Acc. by Mike Wilson on guitar. Home recordings made by Mike Wilson. Shared by Ron Brown. (See also Harry Jones.)

  • Bonaparte's Retreat
  • Pappy's Hornpipe

GL205 IMH Effingham, Illinois - 1977. Recorded by Garry Harrison for Eastern Illinois University Folk Arts Survey. Original tape is in the Tarble Arts Center.

  • Stonewall Jackson
  • Liza Jane
  • Bell Cow
  • Scotland Yard
  • Butterfly Schottische
  • Humpback Mule

Helmer Töyrös

EF038 ___, Michigan - 1981. Recorded by Jim Leary. LP - Accordions in the Cutover.

  • Finnish Medley

Tweedy Brothers

DD125 Wheeling, West Virginia to Columbus, Ohio - 1924 & '28. 78s - Gennett Records.

  • Chicken Reel
  • Dance All Night With A Bottle In Your Hand

Robert Valentine

GL105 EIU Monticello, Illinois - 1983. Acc. by Paul Tyler (guitar).

  • Brown County Autumn
  • Bill Cheatem
  • Irish Washerwoman-Rickett's Hornpipe
  • Apple Knocker's Breakdown
  • Too Young to Marry
  • The Year of Jubilo

GL114 Shelbyville, Illinois - 1991. At a meeting of the Illinois Fiddlers Association.

  • St Anne's Reel
  • Rachel
  • Apple Knocker's Breakdown
  • Green Valley Waltz
  • Old Spinning Wheel

Dan Verble

AF179 ITT Anna, Illinois - 1992. With Marion Verble (guitar).
DrDosido's copy is on VHS and is not yet digitized.

AF179 - c1990. Cassette - Verble Brothers on Stage at the Little Opry.

  • Walking in My Sleep
  • Ozark Rag
  • Sally Gooden
  • That's All a Mule Can Do
  • Dan Verble's Hornpipe
  • Johnson's Old Grey Mule

Bill Walker

AF076 PGCo Port Austin, Michigan - 1978. With Phil Miller on piano by Paul Gifford on dulcimer. Recorded and shared by Paul Gifford.

  • unnamed oberek in A & D
  • Johnny Crease's 2nd Change
  • Rock Valley Jig
  • 1st change [Irishman's Heart to the Ladies]

Jimmie Wheeler

AF096 Portsmouth, Ohio - 1984. Recorded by Jeff Goehring & Howard Sacks. LP - Seems Like Romance to Me: Traditional Fiddle Tunes from Ohio.

  • Pumpkin Vine
  • Yellow Barber

K. Wendell "Wendy" Whitford

GL130 ITT Albion, Wisconsin - 1989. Acc. by Robert & Becky Wernerahl at an Adler House concert at the high school in Libertyville, Illinois.

  • Liberty Two-Step
  • 'Tis One Year
  • Everson's Waltz
  • story about Clarence Reierson and Goose Island
  • Reierson's Two-step
  • Old Oscar's Cannon Ball

Frank "Dad" Williams

DD115 __ - 1929. Solo and with H.M. Barnes Blue Ridge Ramblers. 78s - Brunswick Records. (Search DD115 for others.)

  • Money Musk-Opera Reel
  • Golden Slippers

Dan Workman

DD115 Ohio - 1928. With J.A. Ramsey & Lewis Wolf (banjo & guitar). 78s - Gennett Records. (Search DD115 for others.)

  • St. James
  • South Solon Quadrille