Dancing Bow and Singing Strings with Tracy Schwarz

Folkways Records – FTS-6524

Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1979
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
A1 Cindy (5:14)
A2 Mississippi Sawyer (4:00)
A3 Leather Britches (4:53)
A4 Sourwood Mountain (5:09)
B1 Ragtime Annie (5:04)
B2 Sally Ann (4:59)
B3 Cotton-Eyed Joe (5:32)
B4 Cumberland Gap (5:18)
[Credits]
Tracy Schwarz (fiddle) Chris Warner (banjo) Eloise Schwarz (guitar) Dick Staber (mandolin) Peter Schwarz (piano) Earl Yager (bass)
Liner Notes, Designer and Photographer: Eloise Schwarz, Photographer: Connie Coope, Paul Indman and Sally Anne Schwarz
[Notes]
Calling all shingle-lifters and flat-footers! This collection of music is perfect for dancers of all levels. The Schwarz fiddle band plays tunes based on traditional mountain songs such as "Cotton-Eyed Joe" and "Sally Ann." Dancers can start off slowly to perfect their footwork and then really let loose on fast-flying tunes like "Cumberland Gap." Happy clogging!

Tracy's Family Band: Rode the Mule Around the World

Folkways Records - FTS 31083

Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1981
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Old Time
[Tracklist]
A1 Old Dan Tucker (2:38)
A2 My Home's Across the Smoky Mountains (3:22)
A3 The White Dove (3:30)
A4 My Heart's Tonight in Texas (2:52)
A5 Lemonade Song (2:38)
A6 Jai Passe-Just Today (4:49)
B1 We're the Band That Rode the Mule Around the World (2:41)
B2 I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes (3:20)
B3 Give Him One More As He Goes (2:58)
B4 I'm in Love With You (1:55)
B5 Welcome Home Weary Travelers (5:59)
[Credits]
Tracy Schwarz (guitar/fiddle/accordion/vocals) Eloise Schwarz (guitar/vocals) Peter Schwarz (bass/harmonica/fiddle/drums/vocals) Joe King (guitar) Ron Dann (pedal steel) Randy Kempt (bass)
Liner Notes and Designer: Tracy Schwarz and Eloise Schwarz, Photographer: Bob Hershey, Engineer: Bill Hartfield and Chad Irschick
[Notes]
Tracy's Family Band, composed of patriarch Tracy Schwarz, wife Eloise, and son Peter, performs 11 traditional American folk songs on this 1981 recording. Schwarz was a member of Smithsonian Folkways recording artists The New Lost City Ramblers from 1963 to 1973. In this recording, the family members all sing and play stringed instruments. Tracy plays guitar, fiddle, and accordion, Eloise plays guitar, and Peter plays bass, guitar, violin, and harmonica. Schwarz's passion for traditional American country and folk music is on full display in this collection. Highlights are the standard "Old Dan Tucker," the Cajun "Lemonade Song" featuring Tracy on accordion, and "Welcome Home Weary Traveler," a song about traveling musicians. Tracy and Eloise Schwarz may also be heard on the album Down Home.

Strange Creek Singers

Arhoolie Records – 9003

Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: US
Released: 1997
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass, Appalachian Music, Country, Hillbilly
[Tracklist]
01 When I Can Read My Titles Clear (2:13)
02 In the Pines (3:48)
03 Sunny Side of Life (2:19)
04 Poor Old Dirt Farmer (2:18)
05 Sally Ann (1:22)
06 I Truly Understand That You Love Another Man (2:29)
07 Old Black Choo Choo (2:39)
08 Today Has Been a Lonesome Day (3:16)
09 No Never No (4:11)
10 New River Train (2:55)
11 Get Acquainted Waltz (2:38)
12 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (3:41)
13 Black Lung (3:27)
14 Difficult Run (Pt. 2) (2:48)
[Credits]
Mike Seeger (mandolin/fiddle/banjo/guitar/autoharp/vocals) Hazel Dickens (bass/vocals) Tracy Schwarz (fiddle/guitar/dobro/vocals) Alice Gerrard (guitar/vocals) Lamar Grier (banjo)
Producer: Mike Seeger and Chris Strachwitz, Liner Notes: Richard K. Spottswood, Designer: Dix Bruce, Tom Diamant and Wayne Pope, Photographer: Betsy Siggins
[Notes]
Composed of Mike Seeger, Tracy Schwarz (two-thirds of the New Lost City Ramblers), Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard, and Lamar Grier, the Strange Creek Singers bring new life to hymnals and old-time country classics. Utilizing a combination of instrumental and vocal talent, the singers perform solo as well as in duets, trios, and quartets to bring a traditional country voice into the cities where four of them grew up. Of particular note is the song “Black Lung,” written and sung by Hazel Dickens and dedicated to her brothers, who were coal miners.

Tracy Schwarz's Fiddler's Companion

Folkways Records – FM 8350

Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1981
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Education
[Tracklist]
A1 Arkansas Traveler (5:37)
A2 Sail Away Ladies (4:22)
A3 Ragtime Annie (6:35)
A4 Sally Goodin (4:40)
B1 John Brown's Dream (2:21)
B2 Billy In The Low Ground (2:00)
B3 Bonaparte's Retreat (2:22)
B4 Too Young To Marry (1:53)
B5 June Apple (2:50)
B6 Flop Eared Mule (2:35)
B7 I Went To The Dance (2:27)
[Credits]
Tracy Schwarz (fiddle) Eloise Schwarz (guitar)
Producer: Michael Jahncke, Liner Notes: Tracy Schwarz, Designer: Steve Newcombe
[Notes]
Tracy Schwarz, of New Lost City Ramblers renown, recorded Fiddler's Companion to answer questions beginning fiddlers often have about learning old-time music. He plays 11 standard tunes, first demonstrating the basic melody and then adding various ornamentation. Along with a good ear, a strong sense of patience, and a steady bow, this album is a great complement to a fiddler's music studies.

The New Lost City Ramblers: Rural Delivery No. 1

Folkways Records – FA 2496

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1964
Genre: Folk, Word, & Country
Style: Folk, Country
[Tracklist]
A1 Going Down The River (2:37)
A2 The Cyclone Of Rye Cove (3:00)
A3 Sweet Willie (2:02)
A4 I've Always Been A Rambler (3:12)
A5 Old Joe Bone (1:57)
A6 Durham's Bull (1:33)
A7 Automobile Trip Through Alabama (3:15)
A8 Bachelor Blues (3:00)
A9 Train On The Island (2:30)
B1 Pretty Polly (3:08)
B2 Soldier And The Lady (2:43)
B3 Gold Watch And Chain (2:55)
B4 The Days Of My Childhood Plays (2:00)
B5 Fishing Creek Blues (1:58)
B6 Hungry Hash-House (3:00)
B7 Rubber Neck Blues (2:15)
B8 Twenty-One Years (2:30)
B9 Rosa Lee McFall (2:35)
[Credits]
Mike Seeger (guitar/banjo/mandolin) Tracy Schwarz (fiddle) John Cohen (guitar/banjo/straws)
Director: Moses Asch. Director: Jerry Schoenbaum, Photograper: John Cohen, Designer: Ronald Clyne, Liner Notes: Mike Seeger, Tracy Schwarz and John Cohen, Engineer: Val Valentin and Peter Bartok
[Notes]
In this album's liner notes, John Cohen writes, "After seven years of performing, the New Lost City Ramblers play in a great many country styles. We have each developed our own individual preferences, so one will recognize greater polar ties here, from old time music to some of the more modern sounds."

The New Lost City Ramblers with Cousin Emmy

Folkways Records FTS-31015

Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1968
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 Old Tim Brooks (1:21)
A2 A Home In Old Kentucky (1:23)
A3 I'm Going 'Cross The Sea (2:17)
A4 Pretty Little Miss Out In The Garden (3:12)
A5 Little Joe (3:01)
A6 Ruby, Are You Mad At Your Man? (1:46)
A7 Dance All Night With A Bottle In Your Hand (1:37)
A8 Lost John (3:12)
B1 Bowling Green (1:46)
B2 Cat's Got The Measles (1:22)
B3 Mother's Grave (2:58)
B4 Chilly Scenes Of Winter (2:05)
B5 Graveyard (1:37)
B6 Johnny Booker (1:29)
B7 Scat Tom Kitty Puss (1:14)
B8 Shortening Bread (1:00)
[Credits]
Cousin Emmy (banjo/harmonica/vocals) Mike Seeger (mandolin/autoharp) John Cohen (guitar) Tracy Schwarz (fiddle/bass) George Winston (bass)
Produced by the New Lost City Ramblers
[Notes]
Recorded April 24, 1967, at Sound House in El Monte, California. Cousin Emmy, born Cynthia May Carver (1903-1980) in Barren County, Kentucky, brought the old time banjo music of her roots to glitzier venues, where she donned sequined dresses to create a stage presence, all the while maintaining the integrity of her clear vocals and banjo frailing. It was at such a venue, at a +IBw-Country & Western Night performance+IB0- at the Disneyland Resort in 1961, that she happened to meet the New Lost City Ramblers, who accompany her on this album. The quintessential music of Cousin Emmy can be heard on this album in the classic bluegrass played in the style of mountainous regions, sometimes very popular in the mountains of eastern Kentucky but rarely recorded, and in Emmy+IBk-s reinterpretations that became standalone classics themselves, such as "Ruby are you mad at your man?"

The New Lost City Ramblers 50 Years: Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go?

Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD-40180

Format: 3xCD, Various Artists
Country: US
Released: 2009
Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Country, Old Time
[Tracklist]
Disk One
1-01 Colored Aristocracy: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:05)
1-02 Hopalong Peter: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:04)
1-03 Don't Let Your Deal Go Down: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:26)
1-04 When First Unto this Country: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:48)
1-05 Sales Tax on the Women: The New Lost City Ramblers (3:14)
1-06 Rabbit Chase: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:30)
1-07 Leaving Home: The New Lost City Ramblers (3:05
1-08 How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?: The New Lost City Ramblers (3:34)
1-09 Franklin D. Roosevelt's Back Again: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:19)
1-10 I Truly Understand You Love Another Man: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:29)
1-11 The Old Fish Song: The New Lost City Ramblers (4:52)
1-12 The Battleship of Maine: The New Lost City Ramblers (3:05)
1-13 No Depression in Heaven: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:56)
1-14 Dallas Rag: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:02)
1-15 Bill Morgan and His Gal: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:56)
1-16 Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:31)
1-17 The Lady of Carlisle: The New Lost City Ramblers (3:32)
1-18 Brown's Ferry Blues: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:46)
1-19 My Long Journey Home: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:37)
1-20 Talking Hard Luck: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:40)
1-21 The Teetotals: The New Lost City Ramblers (1:00)
1-22 Sal Got a Meatskin: The New Lost City Ramblers (3:24)
1-23 Railroad Blues: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:41)
1-24 On Some Foggy Mountain Top: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:25)
1-25 My Sweet Farm Girl: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:22)
1-26 Crow Black Chicken: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:35)
Disk Two
2-01 John Brown's Dream: The New Lost City Ramblers (1:32)
2-02 Riding on That Train: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:19)
2-03 The Titanic: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:59)
2-04 Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:15)
2-05 Cowboy Waltz: The New Lost City Ramblers (1:49)
2-06 Shut Up in the Mines of Coal Creek: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:49)
2-07 Private John Q: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:03)
2-08 Old Johnny Bucker Wouldn't Do: The New Lost City Ramblers (3:01)
2-09 I've Always Been a Rambler: The New Lost City Ramblers (3:16)
2-10 Automobile Trip Through Alabama: The New Lost City Ramblers (3:15
2-11 Who Killed Poor Robin?: The New Lost City Ramblers (3:52)
2-12 My Wife Died on Saturday Night: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:18)
2-13 Little Satchel: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:47)
2-14 Black Bottom Strut: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:09
2-15 The Cat's Got the Measels, the Dog's Got the Whooping Cough: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:55)
2-16 Dear Okie: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:14)
2-17 Smoketown Strut: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:16)
2-18 The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:31)
2-19 Fishing Creek Blues: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:01)
2-20 '31 Depression Blues: The New Lost City Ramblers (3:31)
2-21 Black Jack Daisy: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:31)
2-22 Victory Rag: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:05)
2-23 The Little Carpenter: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:50)
2-24 On Our Turpentine Farm: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:51)
2-25 Parlez-Nous à Boire: The New Lost City Ramblers (3:35)
2-26 Valse du Bambocheur: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:59)
2-27 Old Joe Bone: The New Lost City Ramblers (1:59)
Disk Three
3-01 Colored Aristocracy: The Rich Family (1:37)
3-02 Cluck Old Hen: Wade, Crockett and Fields Ward (1:31)
3-03 Young Emily: Dellie Norton (2:03)
3-04 Going Down the River: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:40)
3-05 Billy Grimes the Rover: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:26)
3-06 Pretty Little Miss: The New Lost City Ramblers (3:20)
3-07 Dark & Stormy Weather: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:24)
3-08 Sioux Indians: The New Lost City Ramblers (3:01)
3-09 Moonshiner: The New Lost City Ramblers (3:07)
3-10 Long Lonesome Road: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:56)
3-11 Cotton Eyed Joe: The New Lost City Ramblers (3:14)
3-12 New White House Blues: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:41)
3-13 Milwaukee Blues: The New Lost City Ramblers (2:31)
3-14 Poor Old Dirt Farmer: Tony Balfa, Tracy and Peter Schwarz (3:40)
3-15 Cady Hill: Arthur Smith & Sam and Kirk McGee (1:22)
3-16 I Belong to the Band: Reverend Gary Davis (3:56)
3-17 Freight Train: Elizabeth Cotten (2:38)
3-18 I'm Leaving You: Sara Carter Bayes and Maybelle Carter (2:35)
3-19 Walking Boss: Clarence Tom Ashley (2:28)
3-20 Mother's Advice: Dock Boggs (2:48)
3-21 Hills of Mexico: Roscoe Holcomb (2:29)
3-22 Galax Rag: Kilby Snow (2:49)
3-23 Say Old Man, Can You Play a Fiddle?: Eck Robertson, The New Lost City Ramblers (2:50)
3-24 Awake, Awake: Dillard Chandler (4:12)
3-25 Bowling Green: Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers (3:49)
3-26 Madeleine: Dewey & Rodney Balfa, Allie Young, & Weston Bergeau (2:54)
3-27 Fishing Creek Blues: Sue Draheim, Mack Benford, Eric Thompson, Jody Stecher, Hank Bradley, Will Spires, Kenny Hall, Holly Tannen, & Larry Hanks (2:39)
3-28 Sally In the Garden: New Tranquility String Band & friends (2:21)
[Credits]
Producers: John Cohen, Mike Seeger and Tracy Schwarz, Liner Notes: Jon Pankake and Ray Allen, Photographers: Robert Frank and Chris Strachwitz, Designer: Visual Dialogue
[Notes]
Collectively known as the New Lost City Ramblers, Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tom Paley were pioneers in the revival of Southern mountain music during the folk music revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s. They brought the sounds of genuine old-time string band music and early bluegrass to eager city and college audiences who had grown disillusioned with the commercial pap of the folk boom. This set features two previously released CDs of the Ramblers classic Folkways recordings: The Early Years, 1958-1962 with the original trio, and Out Standing in Their Field: Volume II, 1963-1973, with Tracy Schwarz replacing Tom Paley. A newly compiled third disc,Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go? celebrates the band's 50th anniversary in 2009, presenting more choice Ramblers selections along with their field recordings of the traditional Southern musicians who inspired them including: Dock Boggs, Roscoe Holcomb, Tom Ashley, Maybelle Carter, Elizabeth Cotten, Eck Robertson, Cousin Emmy, Reverend Gary Davis, Kilby Snow, Dillard Chandler, Dellie Norton, and the Balfa Brothers. 81 tracks, over 3 ½ hours of music, 88-page booklet over 3 CDs. Disc #3 includes 6 previously unreleased songs.

The New Lost City Ramblers: Remembrance Of Things To Come

Folkways Records FTS-31035

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1973
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
A1 Soldier's Joy (2:06)
A2 The Titanic (2:56)
A3 Single Girl (5:56)
A4 Lord Bateman (5:35)
A5 I'm Lonesome (2:18)
A6 He Is Coming To Us Dead (3:16)
A7 The Cat's Got The Measels And The Dog's Got The Whooping Cough (2:56)
A8 Rock About My Saro Jane (3:10)
A9 Black Bottom Strut (2:07
B1 New Lost Hometown Blues (2:09)
B2 Dark And Stormy Weather (2:23)
B3 Black Jack Daisy (2:30)
B4 Never Be As Fast As I Have Been (3:02)
B5 Little Ball Of Yarn (2:18)
B6 The Sioux Indians (3:02)
B7 Parlez-Nous A Boire (3:38
B8 The Arkansas Sheik (2:57)
B9 Give The Fiddler A Dram (2:00)

[Credits]
Mike Seeger (fiddle/mandolin/mouth harp/guitar/autoharp/banjo/vocals) Tracy Schwarz (fiddle/guitar/spoons/vocals) John Cohen (banjo/guitar/triangle/vocals)
Photography: Robert Frank, Producer: Moses Asch, Recorder: Peter Bartok
[Notes]
Recorded August 1966. Cover photograph by famed photographer, Robert Frank.

On The Great Divide: The New Lost City Ramblers

Folkways Records FTS-31041

Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1975
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass, Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 John Brown's Dream
A2 Old Johnny Booker Won't Do
A3 Railroading On The Great Divide
A4 Love Of Polly And Jack Monroe
A5 Walking Boss
A6 Who Killed Poor Robin
A7 The Old Man At The Mill
A8 On Our Turpentine Farm
A9 Little Satchel
B1 Dry And Dusty
B2 If The River Was Whiskey
B3 Come All You Tender Hearted
B4 The Time's Been Swiftly Rolling By
B5 There's Coming A Time
B6 A Night At The Country Opera
B7 Hawkins Rag
B8 La Valse De Bambocheurs (Drunkards Sorrow Waltz)
B9 Cotton Eyed Joe
[Credits]
Mike Seeger (vocals/dulcimer/fiddle/autoharp/harmonica/mandolin/guitar) Tracy Schwarz (vocals/fiddle/guitar/banjo/spoons) John Cohen (vocals/banjo/guitar)
Cover Photo: Russell Lee (FSA), Design and Notes: John Cohen and Tracy Schwarz
[Notes]
Recorded by Chris Strachwitz at the Boading House, 1973, San Francisco, Calif.

Gone To The Country: The New Lost City Ramblers

Folkways Records FA-2491

Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1963
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country, Bluegrass, Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 Hello John D.
A2 Grey Cat On The Tennessee Farm
A3 Liza Jane
A4 Buck Dancer's Choice
A5 Long Lonesome Road
A6 Danville Girl
A7 Tom Sherman's Bar Room
A8 Little Glass Of Wine
A9 Sinking In The Lonesome Sea
B1 Riding On That Train 45
B2 Wild And Western Hobo
B3 Pretty Little Miss Out In The Garden
B4 Rambler's Blues
B5 She Tickles Me
B6 The Little Carpenter
B7 Down South Blues
B8 Ain't No Bugs On Me
[Credits]
Mike Seeger (vocals/fiddle/guitar/mandolin/autoharp/banjo) Tracy Schwarz (vocals/fiddle/spoons/guitar) John Cohen (vocals/banjo/guitar/fiddle)
Cover Photo: Laurence Siegel

String Band Instrumentals: The New Lost City Ramblers

Folkways Records FA-2492

Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1964
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass, Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 Saddle Up The Grey (1:57)
A2 Greenback Dollar (2:42)
A3 Victory Rag (2:04)
A4 Soldier's Joy (2:16)
A5 Blackeyed Susie (1:54)
A6 My Wife Died On Saturday Night (2:20)
A7 John Brown's Dream (2:26)
A8 Johnny On The Railroad (2:04)
A9 Take Me Back To Georgia (1:34)
A10 Chinese Breakdown (2:24)
B1 Yellow Rose Of Texas (2:35)
B2 Cowboy Waltz (1:52)
B3 Stone's Rag (2:06)
B4 Smoketown Strut (2:18)
B5 Jackson Stomp (2:32)
B6 Going To Jail (1:43)
B7 Bill Cheatham (2:37)
B8 Shout Lulu (2:05)
B9 Weary Lonesome Blues (2:51)
B10 New Lost Train Blues (2:39)
B11 New Camptown Races (2:22)
[Credits]
Mike Seeger (fiddle/guitar/banjo/autoharp/mandolin/harmonica/vocals) John Cohen (guitar/banjo/mandolin/banjo-mandolin/vocals) Tracy Schwarz (fiddle/banjo/guitar)
[Notes]
Recorded May 12 and 13, 1964 by Peter Bartok at the Requit Library Auditorium.

The New Lost City Ramblers: Modern Times

Folkways Records FTS-31027

Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: United States
Released: 1968
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, & Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
A1 Shut Up In The Mines Of Coal Creek (2:50)
A2 '31 Depression Blues (3:10)
A3 That Little Lump Of Coal (3:15)
A4 Union Man (2:40)
A5 Got The Farm Land Blues (3:08)
A6 We Are Up Against It Now (2:41)
A7 From Earth To Heaven (2:45)
A8 Henry Ford's Model A (2:00)
A9 Truck Driving Man (2:42)
B1 Dollar Down And A Dollar A Week (1:55)
B2 Dear Okie (2:12)
B3 From 40 To 65 (2:53)
B4 Private John Q. (2:02)
B5 Weaver's Life (3:05)
B6 The Death Of Ellenton (2:09)
B7 Take Them For A Ride (2:50)
B8 Timetable Blues (2:43)
B9 Bye, Bye, Black Smoke Choo Choo (2:44)
[Credits]

Mike Seeger (banjo/guitar/harmonica/dobro/autoharp/vocals) John Cohen (guitar/vocals) Tracy Schwarz (fiddle/banjo/guitar/vocals)
Photographer: Robert Frank, Designer: Craig Mierop

[Notes]
As Southern mountaineers and farmers moved into an industrialized era of coal mines and weaving mills their rural songs evolved to express the confrontation with new modes of life and the ensuing conflicts. This album chronicles just that through songs originating in the 1920s and 1930s demonstrating a mix of styles and influences brought to older folk modes with modern subject matters (machines, cars etc.). Producer John Cohen says in the liner notes: "The study of folklore is not simply to preserve the past, but to make the present more comprehensible."

Learn to Fiddle Country Style with Tracy Schwarz

Folkways Records FI-8359

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: United States
Released: 1968
Genre: Non-Music, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Education, Bluegrass, & Country
[Tracklist]
A1 Tuning
A2 The Scale In A
A3 Base And Unison Notes
A4 The Saw Stroke
A5 Learning Cripple Creek With The Saw Stroke
A6 Cripple Creek With More Notes
A7 Double Sring Runs
A8 Saw Stroke Version Of Cripple Creek
A9 The Nashville Shuffle Stroke
A10 Nashville Shuffle Version Of Cripple Creek
A11 The Combined Nashville Shuffle And Saw Strokes
A12 Cripple Creek Using Combined Nashville Shuffle And Saw Strokes
A13 The Long Bow Stroke
A14 Cripple Creek Using Only The Long Bow Stroke
A15 Combining The Long Bow And Saw Strokes
A16 Combination Of Long Bow And Nashville Shuffle Strokes In Old Joe Clark
A17 Combination Of Long Bow Saw And Nashville Shuffle Strokes In Cripple Creek
A18 Unison, And Octave, Notes In G
A19 Leather Britches In G
A20 The Key Of D
A21 Ragtime Annie In D
B1 The Key Of C
B2 The Texas Waggoner In C
B3 Double Stops In G
B4 Double Stops In D
B5 Double Stops In A
B6 Double Stops In C
B7 Country Vibrato
B8 Sliding Into Notes
B9 The Open G And A Tunings
B10 The Black Mt. Blues A Tuning
B11 The Tune Black Mt. Blues
B12 Bonapart's Retreat D Tuning (D Tuning #1)
B13 Bonapart's Retreat
B14 D Tuning #2 And #3
B15 Rocking The Bow
B16 The Jolly Blacksmiths In A
B17 Trills
B18 Soldier's Joy In D With An Old Time Start
B19 Single String Runs
B20 Bluegrass Fiddle In 3/4 Time
B21 Bluegrass Fiddle Lead In 4/4
B22 Fiddle Tune Type Lead In 4/4
B23 Bluegrass Vibrato
B24 The Double Shuffle
B25 Banjo - Fiddle Music
B26 Guitar - Fiddle Music
B27 Guitar - Banjo - Fiddle Band
[Credits]
Tracy Schwarz (fiddle/speaker)

[Notes]
Tracy Schwarz, of New Lost City Ramblers renown, offers instruction on playing the fiddle on this 1965 release. He takes a simple tune (the old-time classic, "Cripple Creek") and walks listeners through different ways to add variations, including adding more notes, drones (playing on two strings), or changing bow strokes. He also demonstrates different techniques such as vibrato. Liner notes include a transcription of the song text, illustrations of scale finger patterns for different musical keys, and an essay by fellow Rambler, John Cohen, on bluegrass, country, and old-time music and their growing popularity in cities and on college campuses.