Old-Time Music

Banging old time from the "Goodbye Girls". Tune is AKA John Brown's Dream.

Love Dan Gellert's syncopated feel on this one.

Jammin version of tater patch by "the bailers".

This is a crooked Metis tune, from the same tradition as the more well known Grey Owl. David Bragger & Susan Platz learned it from Jamie and they have a pretty good version too.

Snowtown, a crooked tune from Sami Braman.

AJ Srubas is the fiddler on this. Always solid! He won clifftop in 2023.

They jam this one out to almost 11 minutes. Trancey but ripping old time!

Foghorn with Rafe Stefanini on banjo.

Rayna Gellert, John Herrmann, Tom Sauber, Carl Jones, and Ira Bernstein tearing it up with the flatfooting.

My favorite version of wolves a howling. There's a lot going on in that banjo part!

Nice version of Marcus Martin's Happy Hollow. Just a great tune!

Jamming version of Buffalo Gals, from banjoist Matokie Slaughter. It uses a mode of the melodic minor scale, pretty unusual for old time.

Joe Thompson (fiddle) is the source on this tune. That's Bob Carlin on banjo.

Some other notable versions:

Reeltime Travelers

Carolina Chocolate Drops

This tune is from black fiddler Will Adams. One of those that repeats so long its kind of a surprise when you finally change parts. First rate banjo and fiddle on this version.

Rushad Eggleston with the elf hat and cello melody/backup on this one. The excellent Tatiana Hargreaves on fiddle. You wish for Chinquapin Hunting!??!

Love these two on twin fiddles. Mary Jane Epps was on a great album called "Light and Hitch" that's out of print. Both her and Michele Lanan are biologists as well as fiddlers. Tune is from Edden Hammons.

Those water tower bucket boys playing a funky shortnin bread. Flatfoot dancing starts around 2:00.

Ian Friend - Guitar Scott Friend - Mandolin Ryan Grant - Bass Colby Joplin - Fiddle Ben Perdue - Mandolin Sam Stallings - Banjo

Recorded and mixed at STudio808A by Joseph "joebass" DeJarnette

Policeman, the most gangsta old time song I know of

Pretty cool flatfooting w "Phoebe Ophelia". Jeremy Marcotte on banjo. Tune is back-step cindy.

Love this clip of Dan Gellert playing a funky version of three part Black Eyed Susie.

Rockin version of this 3 part fiddle tune, with Irish style guitarist John Doyle providing some punchy rhythm.