John W. Summers

Indiana Hoedown #14: Master Fiddlers featuring John W. Summers & Frank Wisehart
Produced by Paul L. Tyler, 1980, for WIPU-FM, Fort Wayne
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Field Recordings

Wabash County, Indiana -1960s. Recorded by Judge Dan White & Art Rosenbaum.

Fine Times at Our House: Indiana Ballads, Fiddle Tunes, Songs.
Folkways Records FS 3809, 1964.

  • Unnamed tune [Grand Spy]
  • Fine Times at Our House
  • The Same Time Today As It Was Yesterday

John W. Summers: Indiana Fiddler.
Rounder Records 0194, 1984.

  • A Bunch of Chickens
  • Pretty Little Girl with the Blue Dress On
  • The Old Blind Sow She Stole the Middlins

Home recordings and field recordings: breakdowns.
  • Arthur Berry [also on Indiana Fiddler]
  • Beaux of Olney
  • Bumble Bee in a Jug
  • Cauliflower
  • Jaybird
  • Corn on Tygart [Matt Simon's Tune]

Jigs and other tune types.
  • Matt Simon's Jig [The Gobby-O or Jefferson and Liberty]
  • Irish Jig [Larry O'Gaff]
  • Ely Green's Cakewalk
  • Lowery's Quadrille