Help: Blues Arrangements for Fiddle

Subject: Blues Arrangements for Fiddle
From: mccomas
Date: 17 Jun 00 - 04:05 PM

Any suggestions where I can find blues arrangements for the fiddle? Any suggestions for blues fiddlers I might want to listen to?

Subject: RE: Help: Blues Arrangements for Fiddle
From: Stewie
Date: 17 Jun 00 - 08:55 PM

This excellent compilation may be a good starting point for you:

Violin Sing the Blues

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Help: Blues Arrangements for Fiddle
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 17 Jun 00 - 09:04 PM

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, though best known as a guitarist, is also a fine blues fiddler; it would be worth your while tracking down some of his (probably, earlier) records.

Malcolm

Subject: RE: Help: Blues Arrangements for Fiddle
From: Matt Woodbury/Mimosa
Date: 17 Jun 00 - 09:33 PM

You could also check out Papa John Creech. I had one recording where he sang, then said " I think I'll play my fiddle now"

Subject: RE: Help: Blues Arrangements for Fiddle
From: mccomas
Date: 17 Jun 00 - 10:47 PM

Thanks to everyone for their help. Stewie, I ordered the CD. mc

Subject: RE: Help: Blues Arrangements for Fiddle
From: Stewie
Date: 18 Jun 00 - 03:45 AM

Mc, you won't regret it. Both Old Hat releases are among the best vintage blues and old-timey yet reissued on CD.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Help: Blues Arrangements for Fiddle
From: Hardiman the Fiddler
Date: 18 Jun 00 - 05:38 PM

I recently found a book, Blues Fiddle, by Julie Lyonn Liberman which seems like a good starting place, with a lot of info in the index/discography section.

Hardiman

Subject: RE: Help: Blues Arrangements for Fiddle
From: GUEST,Suzy T.
Date: 19 Jun 00 - 12:41 PM

Another great blues fiddler that I just discovered is Eddie Anthony. He made a bunch of sides with the blues singer Peg Leg Howell. The Document label has released 2 CDs of Peg LEg Howell and there's LOTS of really cool fiddling.

Also, don't forget the Mississippi Shieks! Lonnie Chatmon's a great and very influential fiddler.

Julie Lyon Lieberman's book is excellent too. Have fun, Suzy THompson

Subject: RE: Help: Blues Arrangements for Fiddle
From: Fiddlin' Big Al
Date: 19 Jun 00 - 01:26 PM

fake it.

Subject: RE: Help: Blues Arrangements for Fiddle
From: Jon W.
Date: 20 Jun 00 - 12:58 PM

Yay, Mississippi Shieks! "Stop and Listen" is my favorite blues tune with a fiddle. Charlie Patton also collaborated with a blues fiddler (Henry something?) on a few tunes (one with "Alabama" in the title). Also Blind Blake recorded with a fiddler if I remember right.

Subject: RE: Help: Blues Arrangements for Fiddle
From: The Shambles
Date: 28 Jun 06 - 07:38 AM

Another great blues fiddler that I just discovered is Eddie Anthony. He made a bunch of sides with the blues singer Peg Leg Howell. The Document label has released 2 CDs of Peg LEg Howell and there's LOTS of really cool fiddling.

Just thought I would second that point. The fiddle playing on these blues tracks really does sound good.

Subject: RE: Help: Blues Arrangements for Fiddle
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Jun 06 - 10:11 AM

Link doesn't work anymore.

Subject: RE: Help: Blues Arrangements for Fiddle
From: GLoux
Date: 28 Jun 06 - 11:04 AM

"Charlie Patton also collaborated with a blues fiddler (Henry something?) on a few tunes"

That would be Henry "Son" Sims.

-Greg

Subject: RE: Help: Blues Arrangements for Fiddle
From: GLoux
Date: 28 Jun 06 - 12:01 PM

Old Hat has changed their Old Hat website. Now they have links to some catalog/retailers like Elderly and County Sales from which you can order their recordings.

Subject: RE: Help: Blues Arrangements for Fiddle
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 29 Jun 06 - 11:59 AM

Try to find an album by Stuff Smith and Herb Ellis. I know this sounds like a jazz album, and it is, but stuff has a wonderful bluesey tone, both in his vocals and his fiddle playing. Well worth looking up.