Fiddle Hangout Top 100 Bluegrass Songs

Recorded on my iPod.

The melody for this tune came into my head as I was driving along I-65 in southern Alabama one day. I pulled off at exit 114, which is the exit for two towns, Starlington & Georgiana (the boyhood home of Hank Williams Sr.). So that's how it got its name. It's a local favorite now and I try to play it every chance I get. It's one of the cuts from my solo CD 'The Raven's Wing'. I don't know what genre to put it under-it's an old-time country waltz that might also be played by twin fiddles in a bluegrass band perhaps!

my quick take on the classic. I love playing this one with a banjo player.

Gold and Silver Waltz in the Key of D

Just trying to hammer out a fiddle tune.

Christmas Card: 2012 (UPDATE: Replaced original file with a new mix.) Made famous by Elvis Presley, our version was arranged, rehearsed, and recorded, over 4 nights during the week before Christmas. I normally play in a banjo & double bass duo, with my friend Bob Hall, the bass player on this recording. We are in the process of putting together a recording studio in his house and decided to create a musical Christmas card to send to all of our friends and family, and also test out our banjo mics on my fiddle. Additionally, to test out our long range offensive capabilities, we enlisted my dad to record a banjo track from his home in TN. In this updated version, my dad might be the only banjo player in the world to have played a duet with a cardboard box. Note that our paranormal research division is currently investigating the origin of the mysterious voice that appears at the end of this recording. Merry Christmas!

Sugar Maple Sweetheart, played on the fiddle by Jim Bryner from Dunbar, Fayette County, PA (Southwestern Pennsylvania). (this is the first old time fiddle song I learned)

One of my original songs, performed by my bluegrass band, Providence

One of my originals, performed by my bluegrass band, Providence

High Lonesome Sound... Inspired by the version recorded by The Improbabillies.

This is an original tune from my new CD 'The Raven's Wing'. I wrote it as part of a suite of tunes inspired by Fairhope author Sonny Brewer's book 'The Poet of Tolstoy Park'. I've performed it with my Celtic group Mithril but here I gave it more of an old-time bluegrass feel. (www.flyingfrogmusic.com/onlinestore.php)

The first song on our upcoming CD

This is my husband Fred and I playing Kansas City Kitty in the key of "G" that we learned from Tim Martin of Gatesville at the Pearl, Texas jam. (www.pearlbluegrass.com) The 2nd and 3rd time through we play "Hadacol Rag" because it uses the same exact chords and the style seems to match. I don't have written music for the Kansas City Kitty part but you can get sheet music for the Hadacol Rag version we're playing from Hollis Taylor's book "Championship Polkas and Rags" (http://www.hollistaylor.com/tay_catalogue.html)

I RECORDED THIS ON SAME ALBUM 25 YRS AGO BUT ADDED A FEW OF MY OWN BITS TO IT BUT I WAS IMPRESSES WITH FRENCHIE BURKE A LOT I MUST SAY

From a jam session at home, recorded with edirol R09 and sony stereo mic.

Another live recording of Stony Creek. a bluegrass band I played with in the mid 80's> My old friend Joel Burkhart on banjo and amazing singing by Rod Swearingen.