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

Joe Altman & the Spaasmachers

IH072 TMHS St. Meinrad - 1961. Custom recording produced as souvenir of St. Meinrad centennial.

  • Nur Kein Wasser Nett
  • Der Flugelhund
  • Hi Lee Hi Lo
  • Eins Zwei Drei und a Vier
  • Dumma Wid Kopf [Varsovienne]
  • C, F & Waltz (Butcher Hannes)

Bob Anderson

AF025 Rensselaer - 1969. LP - Indiana Hoedown. Acc. by Thomas Harper (banjo), Clayton Paul (guitar), Dennis Ricker (banjo), Norman Carlson (bass), with Raymond Pattengale (caller).

  • King's Head
  • Anderson's Hornpipe
  • Little Brown Jug
  • Ragtime Annie (figure: Swap and Trade)

Dillard Armstrong

IH013 TMHS Portland - 1979. Acc. by Collins Cisco (guitar) & Ritchell Bowman (mandolin).

  • Lee Highway Ramble
  • Lost John
  • Sally Ann
  • Buffalo Gals

IH005 TMHS Portland - 1979. Fiddler's Contest at Jay County Fairgrounds rec. by Paul L. Tyler (see also Russell Coe, Adlie Hedges, LeRoy Holliday & Lowell Logan).

  • Boil Them Cabbage Down
  • Kentucky Waltz

Homer Arthur

IH421 ATM Stinesville - 1955. "Old Fiddler's Contest" rec. by Richard Castner (see also Mentford Dillinger & Lee Watkins).
Archives of Traditional Music: acc# 57-026-F

  • Charlie Taylor Waltz
  • Charlie Taylor Tune

James Atkinson

GL010 IUFL Lebanon to Indianapolis - 1981. Original tape in Archives of Traditional Music. DrDosido has no copy.

Millard Barger

GL009 IUFL Paragon - 1981. Acc. by Paul Tyler (guitar). Original tape in Archives of Traditional Music. DrDosido has partial copy.

  • Irish Washwoman
  • unnamed tune-Over the Waves

Cuje Bertram

MF125 Wayne County, Kentucky to Indianapolis - c1970. With unidentified accompanists. Home recording located and shared by Bobby Fulcher.

  • The Funs All Over
  • Big Cat Little Cat

Carl Bischoff

IH301 IUFL Decatur - 1976. Acc. by daughter Beth on organ.

  • Oh Eliza Jane
  • Beer Barrel Polka
  • Tennessee Waltz
  • Golden Slippers

Toad Bradley

IH023 TMHS Servia - 1979. Acc. by Paul Tyler.

  • Walkin' in My Sleep
  • Cricket on the Hearth Rock

N.B. This session was brief, due to technical problems.

IH039 Servia - 1980. With the Moore Brothers

  • Roho (The Red Rooster)
  • Liberty
  • Turkey in the Straw

AO177 - c1990. Cassette - Memories of Old Fiddlers.

  • Shenandoah Valley Waltz
  • Gold Rush

Teresa Broadwell

IH055 TMHS Bloomington - 1980. With Billy Thatcher (guitar). Rec. by Paul L. Tyler at Old Fiddlers Day at Harmonie State Park in Posey County (see also Brian "Hawk Hubbard, Ebert "Mac" McClain, Hector Phillips & Stephanie White).

  • Goofus
  • Saturday Night Rag
    With Ebert "Mac" McClain
  • Faded Love
  • Draggin' the Bow

Thomas Bryant

IH402 ATM Evansville - 1938. Rec. by Alan Lomax.
Archives of Traditional Music: acc# 54-155-F.

  • Soapsuds Over the Fence
  • Stonewall Jackson

Jimmie Campbell

GL007 Dolan - 1980. Acc. by Paul Tyler (guitar)

  • Uncle Bob
  • Chinese Breakdown
  • Buffalo Nickel
  • Soldier's Joy-Hell on Buck Creek-Buffalo Nickel

IH422 ATM Monroe County - 1955. Recorded by Guthrie Meade.
Archives of Traditional Music: acc# 58-017-F.

  • Jesse's Tune
  • White River Bottoms
  • D&A Tune (Old Aunt Sally Pin a Rose on Me)

Jack Carmen

IH006 TMHS Fort Wayne - c1955. With Nancy Lee Hilltoppers. Radio transcriptions dubbed from the collection of Sam Devincent.

  • Slim Gal
  • Bonaparte's Hornpipe
  • Georgia Crackers
  • Roundin' Up the Yearlin's

Michael Cleveland

IFG Henryville to Louisville - 1993 to '96. At the Indiana Fiddlers Gathering in Battle Ground.

FP082 - 1993. Cassette - Highlights from the 1993 Fiddlers Gathering.

  • Old Joe CLark
  • Festival Waltz

FP158 - 1996. Cassette - Highlights from the 1996 Fiddlers Gathering.

  • Sally Goodin

AP252 - 2002. CD - Michael Cleveland Flame Keeper.

  • Dance Around Molly
  • Blue Violet Waltz
  • Rye Straw
  • Bear Creek Hop

Russell Coe

IH005 TMHS Portland - 1979. Fiddler's Contest at Jay County Fairgrounds rec. by Paul L. Tyler (see also Dillard Armstrong, Adlie Hedges, LeRoy Holliday & Lowell Logan).

  • Over the Waves
  • Listen to the Mockingbird

James Cole of James Cole's String (or Washboard) Band

DD112 Indianapolis - 1930. For more info, see my 2017 blog post on old-time Indiana Fiddle Bands.

  • Bill Cheathem
  • I Got a Gal>

Karl Conner

IH047 TMHS Fort Wayne - c1950. Staff violinist at WOWO with the Blackhawk Valley Boys. Radio transcriptions dubbed from the collection of Donald Lake.

  • Leather Britches
  • Climbing Up Them Stairs
  • Rickett's Hornpipe
  • Irish Washerwoman

Ed Cosner

GL265 FCW Munster - 2012. With Katie Bern (fiddle) at a Fiddle Club of the World meeting in Chicago.

  • Dance With Me, Kenny
  • Twinkle, Little Star
  • Dreamer's Waltz
  • Salute to Crisuma
  • Jerusalem Ridge
  • McHattie's Waltz

Richard Cox & the National Fiddlers

DD112 Richmond - 1932. Bernard F. Henson may be the fiddler or the guitarist. John Welling plays steel guitar. For more info, see my 2017 blog post on old-time Indiana Fiddle Bands.

  • East Tennessee Blues
  • The Downfall of Adam>

Eddie Crum

IH418 ATM Bloomington - 1962. Rec. by Judy McCulloh (see also Otis Wright).
Archives of Traditional Music: 062-004-F

  • Devil's Dream
  • Burkhart Schottische

Powell Cummings

GL014 IUFL Cuzco - 1981. With Ken Smelser (fiddle) and Paul Tyler (guitar).
Original tape in Archives of Traditional Music. DrDosido has no copy.

Joe Dawson

GL167 Bloomington - 1998. Acc by Frank Hall (fiddle), Junior Fleener (banjo) & Paul Tyler (guitar). 

  • Tennessee Wagoner
  • Chapman's Waltz
  • Billy in the Lowground
  • Indiana Waltz
  • Henry
  • Raggedy Ann
  • Bass Hornpipe

Cyprien Dickey

GL038 Paoli - 1987. Acc. by Lotus Dickey (brother) on guitar.
(See also Lotus Dickey Repertoire.)

  • Albert Dougherty D Waltz #1
  • Ed Fleming Waltz
  • Albert Dougherty D Tune #1
  • Albert Dougherty D & A Tune
  • Paddy on the Handcar
  • Oyster River Hornpipe
  • Allen Downey Two-Step #2
  • Kiss Waltz (fiddle duet w/ Paul Tyler on guitar)

Lotus Dickey

IH425 ATM Paoli - 1981.  Rec. by Mary Hufford (the first folklorist to record Lotus).
Archives of Traditional Music: acc# 81-052-F.
(For DrDosido's recordings of Lotus Dickey go to Lotus Dickey Repertoire.)

  • Liberty
  • Green Fields of America
  • Fisher's Hornpipe
  • Waltz in C (Good Night Waltz)
  • Cacklin' Hen
  • Sally Gooden
  • Fisher's Hornpipe
  • Paddy on the Turnpike

Steven Dickey

GL258 Paoli - 2011. With Grease Gravy, including Nancy Dickey (banjo), David Crecelius (guitar) & Maria Abel-Crecelius (mandolin). At the Midwest Folklife Festival in Dodgeville, Wisconsin.

  • Rubber Dolly
  • Ed Fleming Waltz
  • Red Tail Hawk (original)
  • Going to Town

Metford Dillinger

IH421 ATM Stinesville - 1955. "Old Fiddler's Contest" rec. by Richard Castner (see also Homer Arthur & Lee Watkins).
Archives of Traditional Music: acc# 57-026-F.

  • Fire on the Mountain
  • Black Mountain Rag

Milovan "Mel" Dokich

EF015 ATM Pittsburgh to Detroit to Chicago - 1977. With the Drina Orchestra, a tamburitza ensemble led by Milan Opacich, a Gary fireman. Recorded by Richard March & Richard Vidutas at Jennie's Restaurant for the Indiana University Folklore Institute's Gary Project.
(See also Chicago Fiddlers.)

  • Hungarian Csardas-La Ciocarlia (Seva)
  • Orange Blossom Special-Joj tugo moja
  • Greek dance-Kolo u šest
  • Kraj jezera jedna kuća mala
  • Kad imaš druga
  • Govori se da me varaš

Clarence "Jerry" Dooley with the Novelty Aces

CO208 unknown hometown - c1946. CD (reissue) - Novelty Aces Transcriptions and Broadcasts.

  • Cacklin' Hen
  • Sourwood Mountain
  • Blue in B Flat
  • Chicken Reel

unknown fiddler with The Down Homers

IH003 TMHS Fort Wayne to Connecticutt - c1950. Sesac transcriptions dubbed from the collection of Everett "Shorty" Cook. If recorded during their Fort Wayne days, the fiddler may be Lloyd Cornell; if from their tenure in Connecticutt, the fiddler is Slim Coxx.

  • I Don't Love Nobody
  • Hull's Victory
  • Raggedy Ann
  • Sailor's Hornpipe

Donald Duff & the Duff Family

IH026 TMHS Lebanon - 1979. Donald (fiddle) & Lawrence Duff (guitar) with Don (banjo) & Donny Payton (dobro). Also, Caroline Duff (Donald's wife) plays piano.

  • Martha Campbell
  • Stonewall Jackson
  • Ten Miles from Town Without Any Whiskey.
  • Walter Harmon's Hornpipe in C
  • Three Dot Schottische
  • This 'n That
  • Kentucky Waltz
    With Caroline Duff (piano)
  • Ragtime Annie
  • Over the Waves

AA020 - 1973. LP (compilation) Sop'n Up Gravy.

  • Arkansas Traveler
  • Turkey in the Straw

AA009 - 1974. LP (compilation) Hollow Poplar.

  • Fire on the Mountain

Dena El Saffar with Salaam

AF064 OTS Oak Park, Illinois to Bloomington - 2013. Dena on joza or kemanche (spike fiddle) with Tim Moore (husband) on drums, Amir El Saffar (brother) on santur & others. At World Music Wednesday in Chicago.

  • To the Village (original composition)
  • Hijaz Intro (original composition)

W.E. Fisher

IH424 ATM Bedford - 1975. Rec. by Robert Cogswell.
Archives of Traditional Music: acc# 99-001-F

  • Italian Dream Waltz
  • Old Bob

Tilfer Floyd of Nicholson's Players

DD112 Salem - 1930. For more info, see my 2017 blog post on old-time Indiana Fiddle Bands.

  • Muskakaktuck_Waltz
  • My Honey

Francis Geels

IH001 TMHS Decatur - 1979. Accompanied by Helen Loshe, guitar & Esther Mowery, bass.

  • G&D Rag
  • Jig in C [Bride of the Wind]
  • Lamplighter's Hornpipe
  • Happy Acre Two-Step
  • Kansas City Rag (from the Prairie Ramblers)
  • Waltz in Bb & Eb (original)
  • Sugar in the Gourd
  • Turkey in the Straw
  • Suppertime Frolic tune
  • My Little Home in West Virginia (from Ellis Hall)
  • Mad Dog

IH019 TMHS Decatur - 1979. Accompanied by Paul Tyler, guitar.

  • Michigan Pioneer
  • Get Aboard the Ship
  • Rattlesnake Bit the Baby
  • Cincinnati Rag
  • Paddy's Reel
  • First Two Ladies Cross Over

Commercial discs and radio broadcasts

IH002 TMHS Fort Wayne & Chicago - 1948 & '49. 78s with Joe Taylor & the Redbirds.

  • He's a Cowboy Auctioneer
  • My Gal's a Square Dance Caller

IH054 TMHS Fort Wayne - 1957. On radio - Country Talent Time.

  • Rubber Dolly (with Ray Kaiser)
  • Golden Slippers (with Jay Dickerson)

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

  • Twinkle Little Star

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

  • Chinese Breakdown
  • Fifty Years Ago

GL142 ITT - 1994. Acc. by Esther Mowrey (sister) on guitar. Adler House In the Tradition Fiddlers' Reunion in Libertyville, Illinois.

  • Chinese Breakdown
  • Foggy Valley
  • Old Box Stove
  • Julianne Flanigan
  • Sidewalk Waltz
  • Back Up and Push
  • Gatineau Reel
  • Jumping Toothache
  • This 'n' That
  • Sop'n Up Gravy

Dan Gellert

IH035 TMHS Elkhart - 1980. Visited at home by Paul Tyler

  • Sail Away Ladies
  • Gilder Boy
  • Evening Star Waltz
  • Sally Gooden
  • Cuckoo's Nest

GL153 Evanston, Illinois - 1995. Concert for Hogeye Folk Arts. Rec. by Tyler Wilson.

  • Callahan
  • Whos a-Gonna Shoe Your Poor Little Feet
  • Dry and Dusty-Washington'March

GL242 FCW Chicago - 2009. Featured guest at the Fiddle Club of the World.

  • High Up on Tug
  • Scott No. 2
  • Put the Devil in the Young Folks
  • unnamed tune

GL235 OTS Chicago - 2009. With Rayna Gellert (fiddle) at Old Town School of Folk Music's Folk & Roots Festival.

  • Folding Down the Sheets
  • Hal and Kay Waltz
  • Sweet Bundy

Commercial LPs and cassettes.

AA021 IFG - 1976. LP - Roustabout: The Fourth Battle Ground Fiddlers' Gathering.

  • Sugar in the Gourd

FP039 - 1984. Cassette - With Shoofly Forked Deer.

  • Booth Shot Lincoln-June Apple
  • Old Sage Fields

FF051 - 1991. Cassette - With Brad Leftwich A Moment in Time.

  • Paddy on the Handcar
  • Kansas City Rag

Arnold Goodman

IH420 ATM Petersburg - 1971. Mix tape compiled by Ed Riley for the Pike County Old-Time Music Association (see also Ed Riley).
Archives of Traditional Music: acc# 71-313-F.

  • Highlander Hornpipe
  • unnamed original

David Hall

IH017 TMHS Monticello. Acc. by Mike (guitar) & Marvin Flowers (bass).

  • Dave's Tune
  • Leather Britches
  • Sally Goodin
  • Billy in the Lowground
  • Sugar in the Gourd
  • Kenny Baker tune
  • Poplar Holler
  • Jerusalem Ridge

Frank Hall

Bloomington to Ireland.

GL223 Chicago - 2007. Acc. by Lena Ullman (banjo) & Paul Tyler (guitar).

  • Blackberry Blossom
  • Oyster River Hornpipe
  • Texas Quickstep
  • Rocky Palace

GL271 FCW Chicago - 2012. At Fiddle Club of the World.

  • Soppin' Up the Gravy
  • Lady of the Lake
  • Jimmy Shank
  • Piney Woods Gal

Frank Hall & Bob Herring (Easy Street String Band)

IH040 TMHS Bloomington - 1979. Rec. by Gary Stanton for "Music Down Home on WFIU-FM.
IH042 TMHS Bloomington - 1980. Interviewed by Paul L. Tyler.

With the Easy Street String Band.

  • Wolf Creek (from Garry Harrison)
  • Rattletrap (from Joe Burchfield)
  • Polly Grand (from Bruce Greene)
  • Possum in the Well (c. Randy Marmouze)
    Frank Hall (fiddle)
  • Hen's Going to Cackle and the Rooster's Going to Crow

  • Bob Herring (fiddle)
  • Little Rose

FP020 - 1980. LP - Easy Street String Band Money in Both Pockets.

  • Boys, the Buzzards Are Flying-Late for the Dance
  • Poughkeepsie Waltz

GL006 IFG Battle Ground -1980 & GL008 - 1981 Easy Street at Indiana Fiddlers Gathering.

  • Lady of the Lake-Jaybird-Buck Mountain
  • unnamed tune (with the Shuffle Creek Cloggers)
  • Green Mountain Petronella

Harold Haug

GL021 IUFL Ferdinand - 1981. Acc. by Paul Tyler on guitar.

  • C Waltz
  • Flop-Eared Mule (schottische)
  • C & G Waltz
  • Du Liegst Mir Im Herzen

Adlie Hedges

IH014 TMHS Portland. Acc. by Tom Lyons (guitar). Adlie learned the first two tunes from his father.

  • Sally Ann
  • Sugar in the Gourd
  • Whistling Rufus
  • Old Country Church
  • Arkansas Traveler

IH005 TMHS Portland - 1979. Fiddle Contest  rec. by Paul L. Tyler (see also Dillard Armstrong &c.)

  • Tennessee Wagoner

Hammie Hinkle

IH416 ATM Monroe County - 1949. Acc by Dale McLung (guitar). Rec. by Joseph Raben.
Archives of Traditional Music: acc# 061-030-F.

  • Old Coon Dog
  • Farmer's Quickstep

LeRoy Holliday

IH005 TMHS Portland - 1979. Fiddle Contest at Jay County Fairgrounds rec. by Paul L. Tyler (see also Dillard Armstrong, Russell Coe, Adlie Hedges & Lowell Logan).

  • Fire on the Mountain
  • Georgia Rose

Brian "Hawk" Hubbard

IH055 TMHS Bloomington - 1980. Rec. by Paul L. Tyler at Old Fiddlers Day at Harmonie State Park in Posey County (see also Teresa Broadwell, Ebert "Mac" McClain, Hector Phillips & Stephanie White).

  • Hell and Scissors
  • The Horse Is in the Canebrake
  • Old Joe
  • Apple Knockers
  • Little Bird on the Ashbrook
  • Last of the Sizemores

Edgar Hursey

IH034 TMHS Ligonier - 1980. Rec. by Paul L. Tyler

  • unnamed jig
  • Haste to the Wedding
  • Grandpa's Jig
  • Fisher's Hornpipe
  • The First Two Ladies Cross Over
  • Blackberry Quadrille
  • Old Massa
  • Repaz Band
  • Under the Double Eagle
  • Mrs. Murphy Had a Baby
  • Wabash Gal

GL158 Ligonier - 1997. Acc. by Paul Tyler (guitar)

  • Rye Waltz
  • Wabash Gal
  • My Love's But a Lassie Yet
  • Darling Nellie Gray_
  • Year of Jubilo
  • Walking the Baby to Sleep
  • Rustic Dance
  • Soldier's Joy

Jess Johnston with Jess Hilliard & His West Va Hillbillies

DD112 Richmond - 1933. Johnston is accompanied by Jess Hillard (guitar) and __ Neal (mandolin). For more info, see my 2017 blog post on old-time Indiana Fiddle Bands.

  • Make Down the Bed
  • Wild Goose Waltz

Ramona Jones

Daviess County to Stone County, Arkansas. LP & Cassette.

AF146 - c1975. LP - Stone County Fiddling.

  • Red Haired Boy
  • Eighth of January

AP162 - c1980. Cassette- Ladies Fancy.

  • Shamus O'Brien
  • Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

Lowell Keller

AA009 Crawfordsville - 1974. LP (complilation) - Hollow Poplar: The Second Battle Ground Fiddlers' Gathering.

  • Hollow Poplar

William Bernard Lee & Bill Hardy

IH016 TMHS Brown & Monroe Counties - 1979. Rec. at DrDosido's apartment near Unionville.
Each played fiddle and accompanied the other on guitar. Bill also sang.

  • Carroll County Blues
  • Brown County Autumn
  • Avalon Quickstep
  • Flop-Eared Mule
  • Alabama_Jubilee
  • Happy Time Waltz

    Bill Hardy leads
  • Uncle Pen
  • Black Mountain Rag

IH437 ATM Brown County - 1964. Recorded by Pat Dunford.

  • Wednesday Night Waltz

Brad Leftwich

GL171 Bloomington - 1994. Acc. by Linda Higginbotham (banjo uke) at a workshop in Malibu, California.

  • Rio Grande
  • Hell on Buck Creek
  • Judge Parker
  • Jericho
  • Arkansas Holler
  • Little Cotton Blossom
  • Barnsdall Blues
  • Thumping Jesus

GL029 IFG Battle Ground - 1984. Leftwich & Higginbotham.

  • Shout Lula
  • Tennessee Breakdown

FF012 - 1983. LP - Leftwich & Higginbotham Buffalo Gal: Won't You Come Out Tonight?

  • Buffalo Gals
  • Fuller's Reel

FF012 - 1984. LP - Leftwich & Higginbotham No One to Bring Home Tonight

  • Tom and Jerry
  • John Lover's Gone

FF034 - 1991. Cassette - With the Humdingers First Take

  • Plowboy Hop
  • Stagalee

FF051 - 1992. Cassette - With Dan Gellert A Moment in Time

  • Hall on the Nine Mile
  • Echoes of the Ozarks

Lowell Logan

IH005 TMHS Portland - 1979. Fiddle Contest at Jay County Fairgrounds rec. by Paul L. Tyler (see also Dillard Armstrong, Russell Coe, Adlie Hedges & LeRoy Holliday).

  • Black Mountain Rag
  • Wednesday Night Waltz
  • Orange Blossom Special
  • on air interview with 1st place winner

Ebert "Mac" McClain

IH065 TMHS Danville - 1980. Acc. by Paul Tyler (guitar)

  • I Don't Love Nobody ("in the old way")
  • I Don't Love Nobody (key of A)
  • Cincinnati Rag
  • Beaumont Rag
  • Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
  • Talking Walls Waltz
  • Johnson's Waltz
  • Sally Gooden

IH055 1980. TMHS Old Fiddlers Day at Harmonie State Park in Posey County (see also Teresa Broadweill &c.).

  • Beaumont Rag [Lone Star Rag]
  • Back Up and Push
  • Kentucky Waltz

Robert 'Strawberry' McCloud

AF034 Bloomington - 1977. Recorded at WFIU-FM. From the collection of Gary Stanton.

  • Frankie and Johnnie
  • New Money
  • Virginia Rag (Fun's All Over)
  • Wing Wang Blues
  • Cindy
  • Leather Britches
  • Miss McLoud's Reel
  • The Cat Came Back
  • Sally Gooden

Sleepy Marlin

AP009 New Albany - 1969. Folkraft 45s.

  • Martha Campbell
  • Wake Up Susan
  • Boil Them Cabbage
  • Tennesse Wagoner

Noble Melton

IH015 TMHS Indianapolis - 1979. Acc. by Don Melton (guitar), Terry (banjo) & Linda "Mac" Bellner (guitar).

  • Grey Eagle
  • Fourteen Days in Georgia
  • Run Johnny Run
  • White River Bottoms
  • Three O'Clock in the Morning
  • D & A Breakdown
  • Sunflower Hornpipe
  • Ryestraw

Homer "Slim" Miller

DD124 NBD Lizton to Chicago to Cincinnati to Renfro Valley - 1930s & 40s.

With the Smoky Mountain Ramblers - 1930.

  • Bear Mountain Rag

With the Cumberland Ridge Runners - 1933.

  • Rounding Up the Yearlings
  • Goofus

With the Pinex Merrymakers - c1945.

  • Ballard's Special
  • Boatin' Up Sandy
  • Grey Eagle
  • Milenberg Joys

Ray Moore (The Moore Brothers)

IH039 Servia - 1980. TMHS With Glessner "Toad" Bradley; acc. by Canton Moore (mandolin), Jack Chaffen (banjo) & Michelle Moore (bs).

  • Uptown Blues
  • Portland Shuffle
  • Wild Indian
  • Sally Gooden
  • unnamed tune
  • Bill Cheatem
  • Salt River

Everett "Smoky" Morgan

GL023 IUFL Eckerty - 1981. Acc. by Tyler (guitar). Original tape is in the Archives of Traditional Music.
DrDosido has no copy.

Obie & Ossie: Herb Obermeyer & Oscar "Butch" Kunkler

IH066 TMHS Fulda - 1980. Herb plays fiddle. Oscar plays guitar and sings.

  • Rubber Dolly
  • Over the Waves
  • Der Lauterbach
  • Du Leigst Mir Im Herzen
  • Raggedy Ann
  • Fifty Years Ago Waltz

Evelyn Lang Perry

GL028 IFG Frankfort - 1983. With National Barn Dance Reunion at Indiana Fiddlers Gathering in Battle Ground. (See also Lotus Dicky & Pete Sutherland).

  • introduction of Evelyn "Daisy" Lang
  • Ida Red
  • Cacklin' Hen
  • Orange Blossom Special

Hector Phillips

Petersburgh. TMHS With the Patoka Valley Boys: Tony Rothrock (mandolin), Jerrel Sharp (guitar), &c.

IH027 Bloomington - 1979. The Patoka Valley Boys in Bear's Back Room.

  • Black and White Rag
  • Chicken Reel
  • Boston Fire
  • Wang Wang Blues
  • Walker Street Reel
  • Hector's Reel

IH029 TMHS Petersburg - 1980. Acc. by Dillon Bustin (guitar).

  • Blue Buggy Bounce
  • Tommy Tisslot
  • Home, Sweet Home
  • Friday Night Waltz
  • Weasel Waltz

  • Acc. by Paul Tyler (guitar)
  • Een West G&D Tune
  • Een West D Tune
  • Old Man and Old Woman Quarreling
  • Jesse James
  • Ralph Hawkins Rag
  • Legal Tender Hornpipe
  • White Wash Man-Everybody Calls Me Honey

IH055 TMHS - 1980. Old Fiddlers Day at Harmonie State Park in Posey County (see also Brian "Hawk Hubbard &c.).

  • A Smile Goes a Long Way
  • Fire on the Mountain

IH074 LP - Patoka Valley Boys Pike County Pickin'.

  • Walker Street Reel
  • Sailor's Hornpipe

IH075 LP - Hector Phillips & the Patoka Valley Boys.

  • Duranges Hornpipe
  • Tin Pan Parade

Thurman Percifield

IH405 ATM Helmsburg - 1960. Rec. by Donald Winkelman at Abe Martin Lodge, Brown County State Park.
Archives of Traditional Music: acc# 061-007-F.

  • unnamed tune / square dance
  • I Don't Love Nobody

Roger Richardson

IH407 & IH413 ATM Martinsville - 1962. Rec. by Judy McCulloh.
Archives of Traditional Music: acc# 62-029-F & 62-030-F.

  • unnamed tune
  • Button Up Sandy [Boatin' ?]
  • White River Bottoms
  • Battle-O

Ed Riley

IH420 ATM Petersburg - 1971. Mix tape compiled by Ed Riley for the Pike County Old-Time Music Association (see also Arnold Goodman).
Archives of Traditional Music: acc# 71-313-F.

  • Leather Britches
  • Daly's Reel

IH074 LP - Patoka Valley Boys Pike County Pickin'.

  • Nina's Waltz

Vic Rigsby

IH012 TMHS Cromwell - 1979. See Browse Folk Musicians for Vic's solo banjo playing.

  • Dusty Miller
  • Bill Cheatum
  • a Rigsby family breakdown
  • Tennessee Wagoner
  • Katy Hill
  • Eighth of January
  • Grey Eagle
  • Miss McCloud's Reel

Wayne Satkamp

IH067 TMHS Stendahl- 1980. With Barbara (wife) on bass, Charlie (son) on mandolin & Hugo (father) on drums.
GL015
Huntingburg - 1981. Satkamp Family plays a dance at the Huntingburg Senior Center.
Original tape in Archives of Traditional Music. DrDosido has no copy.

  • Pennsylvania Polka
  • The Seven Step

Walter & Brian Seitz

GL016 IUFL Dubois - 1981. Original tape in Archives of Traditional Music. DrDosido has no copy.

Ken Smelser

IH056 TMHS Paoli - 1980. Acc. Mary Ruth Riley on fiddle (daughter), Brad Leftwich (banjo uke) & Paul Tyler (guitar).

  • Going Back to Kentucky
  • When Leaves Turn to Brown
  • Chinese Breakdown
  • unnamed waltz
  • Traffic Cop
  • Patoka Waltz
  • Muscatatuck Waltz
  • White River Bottoms
  • Wild Horse
  • Buzzards' Roost
  • Ladies on the Flatboat

GL026 - 1981. With Mary Ruth Riley (fiddle), Brad Leftwich (banjo) & Paul Tyler (guitar).

  • tune from the Orkney Islands
  • Gärdebylåten
  • Redwing
  • Maple SugarTime
  • Orkney Islands tune
  • The Gobby-O
  • Walls of Liscaroll
  • Boys of Blue Hill
  • Little Burnt Potato
  • Kiss Waltz

GL011 IUFL - 1981. With Maurice "Mousy" Wininger on piano. Original tape in Archives of Tradtional Music.
GL012 IUFL - 1981. With David A. Brose of Ohio-Indiana Folklife. Original tape in Archives of Traditional Music.
DrDosido has no copy of either.

AF018 - 1977. LP - Traditional Dance Tunes. With the Raincrow Countryside Band: Kathy Restle (fiddle), Dillon Bustin (banjo-tin whistle), Bob Herring (hammer dulcimer) & Dan Willens (guitar).

  • Wooden Shoe Clog
  • Sally's Got a Wooden Leg
  • Ken Smelser's First Tune
  • My Own House

Clay "Pete" Smith

IH018 TMHS Winnemac - 1979. With Country Bluegrass (see Ensembles)

  • Skeeter in the Lowground
  • Fifty Years Ago Waltz
  • unnamed tune [Stonewall Jackson]

IH020 TMHS Star City - 1979. Acc. by Paul Tyler on guitar.

  • Hell on the Wabash
  • Charlie Dunn's C Tune
  • Charlie Dunn's F & C Tune
  • Charlie Dunn's F & C Jig
  • Charlie Dunn's F, C & Dm Tune
  • Grandmother Smith's Waltz
  • Charlie Dunn's D & A Jig
  • Miss McCloud's Reel
  • Ida Red
  • Bring Back My Old Coon Dog
  • Sugar in the Gourd

IH043 TMHS Fort Wayne - 1950 & Jacksonville, Illinois - 1958. Radio air tests dubbed from the collection of Bob Homan.

1950 - Hoosier Cornhuskers

  • Listen to the Mockingbird
  • Dunn's Reel
  • Tennessee Wagoner

1958 - Prairie Pioneers

  • Tennessee Wagoner
  • Perry on Lake Erie
  • Soldier's Joy

Hugh Sowers & Herman Fox

IH010 & IH011 TMHS Fort Wayne - 1979. Hugh on fiddle & Herman on concertina. The first numbers also include The Entertainers, three electric guitarists: Charlie Fudge, Orville Gonser (vocals) & Bob Giant.

  • Under the Double Eagle
  • Fisher's Hornpipe [Soldier's Joy]
  • Paddy on the Turnpike
  • My Love's But a Lassie Yet
  • unnamed quadrille
  • Marching Through Georgia
  • Comin' Through the Rye
  • unnamed quadrille

Ronny Stewart

AP048 Paoli - c1986. With the Stewart Family. Recording of unknown provenance gifted from the collection of Ernie Atkins of Martinsville.

  • blues
  • Kentucky Waltz
  • Listen to the Mockingbird
  • Cindy

Kenny Stone

GL252 FCW Portage - 2010. Featured guest at Fiddle Club of the World in Chicago.

  • Paddy on the Turnpike
  • medley of hymns
  • The Grangers' Farewell
  • Buckey Barn Dance

Rocky Stone

IFG Syracuse. At the Indiana Fiddlers Gathering with Roger Bellow (guitar & vocal) & Mo Nelson (bass).

GL09 Battle Ground - 1984.

  • Draggin' the Bow
  • Stay Out of the South
  • Joe Turner Blues
  • My Home in San Antone
  • Joy, Joy, Joy

GL032 Battle Ground - 1985.

  • Back Home Again in Indiana
  • My Shoes Come Walking Back to You
  • Goofus
  • St. Louis Blues
  • Sweet Georgia Brown

Ken Stonebreaker

IH022 TMHS Albion - 1979. Acc by Paul Tyler on guitar.

  • unnamed tune
  • Uncle Jim's Waltz
  • Clarence's Tune
  • Trotting Horse
  • The Little Red Rooster goes Cock-a-Doodle-Doo
  • Blacksmith Shop
  • Waltz Quadrille
  • Old Dan Tucker

John W. Summers

Treaty (Wabash County) - 1964 to 72. Published recordings.
For more, go here John Summers Presentation

AF005 - 1964. LP (compilation) - Fine Times at Our House.

  • Rye Straw
  • Waiting for the Lord to Come with Judge Dan White

AF010 - 1966. LP - On Franklin George Traditional Music for Banjo, Fiddle and Bagpipes.

  • Londonderry Hornpipe
  • Forked Horn Deer/ Fisher's Hornpipe/ Round Town Girls/ Top of Cork Road/ Arkansas Traveler

AF102 - 1966. On Franklin George Swope's Knob.

  • Patty O'Meagher's Reel (The Old Blind Sow)
  • Fine Times at Our House

AF095 - 1960s. LP - Indiana Fiddler.

  • unnamed tune [Matt Simon's Tune]
  • Crazy Jim
  • Jefferson and Liberty

Pete Sutherland

Vermont to Bloomington back to Vermont

G0028 IFG Battle Ground - 1983. With Dalglish, Larsen & Sutherland at Indiana Fiddlers Gathering.

  • medley of tunes
  • medley of tunes
  • Shawnee Town-medley of tunes

GL188 Bloomington - 1996. With Paul Tyler (fiddle) &c. at Lotus Dickey Tribute Concert

  • Green Fields of America

FP257 - 2018. CD - Pete's Posse Fruitfly Blues

  • Indiana Breakdown
  • Goin' to Town

Floyd Thompson/Frank Owens of the Hometowners

DD112 Indianapolis - 1928. For more info, see my 2017 blog post on old-time Indiana Fiddle Bands.

  • Ida Red
  • Rye Waltz

Paul Tyler

Hoagland to Detroit to Bloomington to Chicago.

GL006 IFG Battle Ground - 1980. With Herman Fox (concertina) at Indiana Fiddlers Gathering.

  • Repaz Band March
  • D & A quadrille
  • Beautiful Ohio
  • Till We Meet Again

AF070 Bluffton - 1981. With Herman Fox (concertina) at Oubache State Park. Rec. by Steve Poyser.

  • Souvienne (Varsovienne)
  • Cheese, Cheese, Limburger Cheese
  • German quadrille
  • O du Lieber Augustin

University of Chicago Folk Festival fiddle workshops

    HT020 - 1998.
  • Evansville

  • Wild Horse

  • GL224 - 2008.
  • Buzzard's Roost

  • Banks of the Ohio

  • GL-185 - 2009.
  • Smith McClure's Best (aka Lady of the Lake)
  • Sweet Bundy

GL185 A fiddleanea of tunes.

  • Albert Daugherty's D Tune #2
  • Blue Buggy Bounce
  • Oyster River Hornpipe Tyler Family band

Julius Vargas

EF017 South Bend - c1976. Romani ensemble. Recording shared by an unknown donor.

  • piece #1
  • piece #2

Draper Walter & the Walter Family

DD112 Richmond - 1933. Acc info. For more info, see my 2017 blog post on old-time Indiana Fiddle Bands.

  • Walter Family Waltz
  • Shaker Ben>

Lee Watkins

IH421 ATM Stinesville - 1955. "Old Fiddler's Contest" rec. by Richard Castner (see also Homer Arthur & Mentford Dillinger).
Archives of Traditional Music: acc# 57-026-F

  • King's Head
  • Tennessee Wagoner

Herb Wenning

GL017 IUFL Portersville - 1981. Family band includes Sharon [age 16] (caller), Mike [age 13] & Leroy on guitar.

  • Kimmer Andreas waltz
  • unnamed German waltz
  • Ach du Leiber Augustine-Hi Lee Hi Lo
  • The Seven Step
  • Ten Pretty Girls (Texas Schottishe figure dance)
  • Grandpas Dance
  • Kie Raus
  • C & G Waltz

Stephanie White

IH055 TMHS New Albany - 1980. Stephanie (fiddle & vocals) with Terry White (guitar & vocals).

  • Blackberry Blossom
  • Uncle Pen
  • Rose of San Antone
  • Rutland Reel

Gene Wilhite

Brazil - 1974 & 1980. With the Country Trio.

AF059 - 1974. LP - Finest Fiddling.

  • Sweet Georgia Brown
  • Clay County Waltz
  • Cotton Patch Rag
  • Cherry Orchard Waltz
  • Limerock Rag

GL006 IFG Battle Ground - 1980.

  • Tom and Jerry
  • Fire on the Mountain
  • unnamed rag
  • Clarinet Polka
  • San Antonio Rose

Beamon Wille Band

IH059 TMHS Greene County - 1980. Square dance at the Linton Armory with Mark Oliphant (caller). Band includes Beamon Wille (fiddle), Richard Raper (fiddle & mandolin), Herb Thac . . .

  • Raggedy Ann (figure: Old Barn Door)
  • Mockingbird Hill
  • Tennessee Wagoner (figure: Forward Six and Back)
  • Brown County Autumn (figure: Dip and Dive)
  • Chinese Breakdown
  • Wednesday Night Waltz

Ervin Williams

GL031 IUFL Oxford - 1982. Acc. by Paul Tyler (guitar). Original tape at Archives of Traditional Music. DrDosido has no copy.

Frank Wisehart

IH069 TMHS Frankfort - c1940. Acc. by J. Fritz on banjo & Ethel Litton (daughter) on piano. Rec. on aluminum discs by George Kascannon at Wabash College Speech Department.

  • Leather Britches
  • Arkansas Traveler
  • White River Bottoms
  • The NRA
  • Chase the Squirrel
  • Turkey in the Straw
  • Over the Waves
  • Rose Waltz

Joe Witzberger

GL011 IUFL St. Henry - 1981. Wedding Anniversary dance in St. Henry. Band leader, Joe Witzberger can no longer play the fiddle, but now plays mandolin.

  • Der Lauterbach-Ach du Leiber Augustine-Hi Lee, Hi Lo
  • Where's My Sweetheart
  • Fruchthaus Waltz
  • Du Liegst Mir Im Herzen
  • Eins, Zwei, Drei und a Vier
  • Kiss Me Waltz (figure: Circle Waltz)
  • Boil Them Cabbage (figure: Right Hands Across)
  • Ranger's Waltz
  • unnamed schottische [Rustic Dance]
  • Sweet Bunch of Daisies + Circle Waltz

Cecil Wright of Clyde Martin & the Hoosier Rangers

DD112 Palmyra - 1931. For more info, see my 2017 blog post on old-time Indiana Fiddle Bands.

  • Little Brown Jug-White River Bottoms
  • Shubers Hoedown>

Otis Wright

IH418 ATM Bloomington - 1962. Rec. by Judy McCulloh (see also Eddie Crum).
Archives of Traditional Music: acc# 062-004-F.

  • C, G, & F Waltz
  • unnamed march

Harold Zimmerman

IH037 TMHS Fort Thomas, Kentucky - 1980. Accompanied by Paul Tyler on guitar.
GL008 - 1981. Indiana Fiddlers Gathering in Battle Ground (see also Lotus Dickey). Acc. by Paul Tyler (guitar) & Billy Thatcher (bass).

  • Jack of Diamonds
  • Charlie Hahn's Best
  • Pinetops
  • Smith McClure's Best
  • Southern Schottische
  • Jumping Toothache
  • Michigan Pioneer
  • Old Flanagan
  • Harold Zimmerman's Best
  • Harvey Sponseller's Irish Ditty

GL008 IFG -1981. Aka Battle Ground.

  • Sop'n the Gravy
  • Over the Waves
  • Stonewall Jackson
  • Pepper and Brown

AF535 Along the Ohio's Shores. CD compilation.

  • Kenny Roth tune #1
  • Kenny Roth tune #2