Green Fields of America
This is a version of the tune from Billy Mathews. The Alton (Illinois) Telegraph has a video interview with Billy, and this is the tune that the group is playing in the first part of the video.
This is a version of the tune from Billy Mathews. The Alton (Illinois) Telegraph has a video interview with Billy, and this is the tune that the group is playing in the first part of the video.
Finally worked out a solo version of this great tune. I got to play it several times over the last weekend.
A kind of clumsy rendition of a fun tune written by Lynn Morris. Again, this was a TOTW, and it grabbed me.
This was a TOTW, and I hadn't heard the tune before. It caught my fancy so here is a quick recording.
My friends call this Western Country. It's not a whole lot different from Waterbound. I geuess the B part is different.
TOTW
I learned this from Billy Mathews' collection of tunes. The Fiddlers Companion says that Kyle Creed played it. My fiddle version is not quite ready for prime time.
A while ago this was a TOTW, and I've been meaning to play it. Now I have. It's more like Running in My Sleep! But I worked it out from the playing of a group with a CD on emusic who do it at that tempo.
I guess this is a well-known tune, but I don't recall playing it much.
This is really a version of Billy in the Low Ground, but my source called it "Low Land". Billy in the Low Ground is one of those tunes that I enjoy listening to, and playing along with, but I've never been inspired to actually work it out. However, I got inspired by the last of the four links to BHO tunes that Don Borchelt listed in a TOTW; the one from rcmoore which is a recording by Steve Mooremade in t he 1950s or 60s when Steve Moore was in his 80s. He calls it "Billy in the Low Land".
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