Tunes from the Book, by Harry Bolick and Friends

Tunes from the Book

by Harry Bolick and Friends

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Mary Z Cox Love it :) Already have the CD & book--but wanted to have it streaming on Bandcamp which is easier for driving :)

Alice Craig YESSS! Love this album! Really difficult to choose a favorite! THANKS!! Favorite track: Sweet Milk And Peaches - White Hat.

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of The Last of the Completely Lost Mississippi Fiddle Tunes, Even More Completely Lost Mississippi Fiddle Tunes, The Completely Lost Mississippi Fiddle Tunes Book, DoubleTalk, Clifftop 2020, The Completely Lost Mississippi Fiddle Tunes, Mississippi Travelers - Archaeology, Tunes from the Book, and 5 more. , and , .

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1.	Sweet Milk And Peaches - White Hat 02:53	buy track
2.	Cindy Waltz 02:30
3.	Fishers Hornpipe 02:22
4.	Mary Blain 02:37
5.	John Butter And The Fat - Taters In The Sandy Land - Molly Put The Kettle On 04:14
6.	Billy In The Lowground 01:42
7.	Carve That Possum 01:59
8.	Old Morgan 02:13
9.	Tom Tit 01:30
10.	Soapsuds Over The Fence 01:51
11.	Sebastapol 02:27
12.	Grand Bay Schottische 02:17
13.	Hogeye 02:21
14.	Gee Whiz 02:20
15.	Lazy Kate(S) 03:18
16.	Eighth Of January 02:36
17.	Billy In The Lowground - Gulfport 03:47
18.	Scrub And Kiss Me Waltzes 04:41
19.	Forked Deer - Smokey Moke 02:20
20.	Sugar In The Gourd - Chippy Get Your Hair Cut 03:57
21.	Way Late Last Night When Peter Went A Fishing 02:19
22.	Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray 03:10

about

These new recordings are of tunes from the recently published book of WPA era Mississippi fiddle tunes.- "Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930's" by Harry Bolick and Stephen T. Austin - Published by the University Press of Mississippi

View Video Introduction/Book Trailer(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJxjX4LV59A&feature=youtu.be)

While in the Mississippi State Archives tracking down Abbot Ferris's beautiful photographic portraits of musicians from 1939, author Harry Bolick discovered, to his amazement, a treasure trove of earlier fiddle tunes in manuscript form. Since then he has worked to understand how this collection came to exist and be set aside. With Stephen T. Austin, Bolick has transcribed the subsequent 1939 audio recordings. Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s presents the history of the collecting work, with over three hundred of the tunes and songs and a beautiful selection of period photographs.
In the summer of 1936, over one hundred fiddle tunes, many of them unique, along with thousands of songs, were collected and notated throughout a large part of Mississippi. Roughly 130 novice field workers captured beautiful tunes and tantalizing fragments. As a body of work, it is an unparalleled and fascinating snapshot of vernacular music as heard in Mississippi in the early part of the recorded era. However, this music was unpublished and forgotten.
In 1939, building on the contacts made three years earlier, Herbert Halpert led one of the last and best executed of the WPA folklore projects which recorded audio performances in Mississippi. Some, but not all, of those distinctive fiddle tune recordings have been published. Additionally through cassette tape copies passed hand to hand, some of these distinctive tunes have regained currency and popularity among contemporary fiddlers. In Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s, this great music is at last widely available.

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released December 20, 2015

Harry Bolick, Ken Bloom, Nathan Bontrager, Pat Conte, Jim Garber, Pete Olynciw, Pat Schories, Charlie Shaw, Brian Slattery, Arminda Thomas and Joel Wennerstrom.

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Harry Bolick Hopewell Junction, New York

www.mississippifiddle.com

Born in Mississippi, he has focused on, performed, recorded, and taught the classic fiddle tunes from Mississippi throughout the US and in Germany.

The University Press of Mississippi has published his two books, "Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930's" and “Fiddle Tunes from Mississippi - Commercial and Informal Recordings, 1920–2018.“ ... more

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