| Title: |
"Good Fellow" |
| Artist: |
Peter Feldmann |
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| 1 |
Make Me a Cowboy (Again for a Day) |
2:32 |
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Learned from the singing of Peg Mooreland. |
| 2 |
The Wreck of the Old Thirty-One |
3:02 |
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A rare train song from Doc Hopkins, star of
the old "WLS Barn Dance" out of Chicago. |
| 3 |
Broken Down Gambler |
2:44 |
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From the Skillet Lickers, where else? |
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[Peter Feldmann - fiddle/guitar, Jim Wimmer
- fiddle, Wayne Shrubsall - banjo] |
| 4 |
I Love Chicken Pie! |
2:25 |
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Food is music, music is food. Leake County
Revelers. |
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[Peter Feldmann - vocal/fiddle, Jim Wimmer
- fiddle, Wayne Shrubsall – banjo, Phil Pritchard – bass] |
| 5 |
The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn |
3:42 |
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From Buster Carter and Preston Young. |
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[Peter Feldmann - vocal/guitar, Jim Wimmer
– fiddle, Gilles Apap - fiddle] |
| 6 |
Lost Indian |
2:30 |
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From the playing of Ed Haley. |
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[Peter Feldmann – guitar, Jim Wimmer – fiddle,
Wayne Shrubsall - banjo, Phil Pritchard – bass] |
| 7 |
Oh, Take Me Back |
3:04 |
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An old country blues via Sara and Maybelle
Carter. |
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[Peter Feldmann – lead vocal/guitar, Wayne
Shrubsall - tenor vocal/guitar] |
| 8 |
Four Cent Cotton |
2:05 |
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From North Georgia via the Skillet Lickers. |
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[Peter Feldmann - guitar, Jim Wimmer - fiddle,
Wayne Shrubsall - banjo] |
| 9 |
Goin' Back to Dixie |
3:05 |
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From Alma Gluck, Uncle Dave Macon, and the
Dixie Clodhoppers. |
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[Peter Feldmann – vocal/banjo, Wayne Shrubsall
- tenor vocal/banjo, Jim Wimmer - bass vocal/fiddle, Ms. Francine - Korg
M1] |
| 10 |
Sandy River Belle |
1:41 |
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[Peter Feldmann - banjo, Wayne Shrubsall – banjo] |
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| 11 |
Croquet Habit |
3:30 |
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From Freeny’s Barn Dance Orchestra and dozens
of other singers. |
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[Peter Feldmann – vocal/mandolin, Jim Hutchison
– tuba, Robin Frost – piano, Jim Wimmer/Gilles Apap fiddles, Stan
Tysell – guitar] |
| 12 |
Everybody Does It |
3:17 |
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From Jimmie Rodgers, "The Singing Brakeman”. |
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[Peter Feldmann – vocal/guitar, Stan Tysell
- guitar, Gilles Apap – scat singing/violin, Jim Hutchison - tuba, Robin
Frost – cornet/piano, Chris Judge – banjo] |
| 13 |
Good Fellow |
4:16 |
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From the Leake County Revelers. |
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[Peter Feldmann – vocal/whistling/mandolin,
Jim Wimmer – vocal/whistling/fiddle, Gilles Apap - French whistling/violin,
Stan Tysell – guitar, Robin Frost – piano, Jim Hutchison – tuba] |
| 14 |
Willy the Weeper |
5:36 |
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From Jesse Rodgers. |
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[Peter Feldmann - vocal/guitar, Gilles Apap
– French whistling/violin, Chris Judge – banjo, Robin Frost –cornet/piano,
Jim Hutchinson – tuba, Stan Tysell – guitar] |
| 15 |
Three Miles South of Cash |
2:12 |
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From Floyd and Lloyd Armstrong "The Armstrong
Twins" |
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[Peter Feldmann - tenor vocal/mandolin, Stan
Tysell - lead vocal/guitar] |
| 16 |
Travelin' Blues |
4:12 |
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From Jimmie Rodgers. |
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[Peter Feldmann – vocal/mandolin, Ms. Francine
- tenor vocal, Wayne Shrubsall - banjo, David West – guitar, Phil Pritchard
– bass] |
| 17 |
Tennessee Blues |
3:47 |
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One of Bill Monroe’s first tunes. |
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[Peter Feldmann – mandolin/guitar, David West/Wayne
Shrubsall – banjos, Phil Pritchard – bass] |
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Recordings 1, 2, 7, 10, 15 – Peter Feldmann;
Recordings 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 16, 17 – Ernie Orosco, S&M,
Santa Barbara;
Recordings 5, 11, I2, 13, 14 – Kevin Kelly, UCSB |
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| Old familiar tunes, true stories put to songs, ballads,
breakdowns, and blues with Wayne Shrubsall, Jim Wimmer, Gilles
Apap, Robin Frost, Stan Tysell, Jim Hutchison, Phil Pritchard,
David West, Chris Judge, and "Ms.
Francine". |
PETER FELDMANN immigrated to Southern California
at an early age from his native Switzerland. He was immediately fascinated
with the wealth of wonderful music coming from the rural areas of the
USA: "I found I could learn something real about this country through
its music." He has collected, studied, taught, and performed this music
for more than 30 years for Weddings and wakes, college concerts and amusement
parks, schools and saloons all over the West. He founded the Bluebird
Cafe, a seminal music club of the 1970s in Santa Barbara, along with
Sonyatone and Hen Cackle Records, and Santa Barbara's Old Time
Fiddlers' Convention, which has taken place every October for 26 years.
THE MUSICIANS
WAYNE SHRUBSALL and I met shout 20 years ago at
a music festival in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Discovering a common taste
in old time music, we formed "The Old Time Band", devoted to presenting
classic country music from its golden age, 1920-1935. Wayne lives in Albuquerque
and performs with bluegrass bands there, as well as contributing columns
to Banjo Newsletter.
JIM WIMMER is a master violin maker based in Santa
Barbara. My guess is that he learned old-time fiddling to put his violins
through their paces before handing them over to the likes of concertmasters,
soloists, etc. Jim loves old-time and Irish fiddling, and can also be
heard on a Bear Family LP with Bo Lipari.
PHIL PRITCHARD plays bass for a Santa Barbara
country and bluegrass band, "The Floyd County Boys", and is right
at home with both early country and bluegrass music. Their recordings
are available in better circles everywhere.
GILLES APAP
is best known as "the first violinist of the 21st Century", as Yehudi
Menhuin describes him. Born in Algeria, raised in Nice, Gilles now lives
in Southern California and tours worldwide with his band "The Transylvania
Mountain Boys". Their CDs are available on Sony Classical.
STAN TYSELL has taught school in the Santa Barbara
area for longer than I'd care to say. He has a wealth of knowledge regarding
Native American customs, along with a real understanding of Western Swing
and the Los Angeles country scene of the 1940s-'50s. Stan and Peter often
work as a duo in the Santa Barbara area.
JIM HUTCHISON is originally from Northern Ireland,
and plays a great upright bass as well as his forthright tuba solos, which
add a certain class to these songs. Jim's "day job" is with the AF of
M in Santa Barbara.
ROBIN FROST plays piano (classical, ragtime, Dixieland
and pop) and cornet...sometimes both at the same time. He has a deep knowledge
of the world of pop music from 1910 on into the 1940s, and spends his
time composing anything from ragtime pieces to operas. Although he performs
only rarely, his shows provide a rare treat for any real music lover.
CHRIS JUDGE is a master guitarist with strong
influences from '30s jazz greats such as Django Reinhart and
Lonnie Johnson. As long as you can tune a banjo like a guitar, Chris
can play it!
DAVID WEST met Peter at his Bluebird Cafe
around 1973. There he formed a band which became "The Cache Valley
Drifters", touring nationwide and recording for Bruce Kaplan's
Flying Fish label. David now performs and produces recordings for
CMH records in Los Angeles from his home in Santa Barbara.
"MS. FRANCINE" is Francine Feldmann, primarily
a composer of both popular and classical songs, but a mighty fine singer
as well.
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Mastering:
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John O’Connor |
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Cover Photo:
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T. Moore |
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Back Illustration:
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D. Barker |
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Graphic Design:
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Jill Lee-Jones, Ideal Images |
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(P) 1998
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Peter Feldmann. |
Hen Cackle Records
Blue Dalmatian Productions
PO BOX 614
Los Olivos, CA 93441
BluegrassWest.com
E-mail: Peter |
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