Beautiful old traditional fiddle tune played on my 1918 A4

A three-part ragtime tune that I wrote in 1968. Analog recording 1997.

Just a little solo mandolin holiday cheer.

I wrote this tribute to Bill Monroe after visiting the Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Festival in Rosine, KY in 2005, and I have just released it in the USA on New Cuts Of Bluegrass Volume 3, and to Radio Stations on Air Play Direct. It is getting really good airplay on US Radio.

In the minor strain....

Mando tune

I want to be loved... That's what I tell in this song...

My arrangement of the classic. I've heard the lyrics were Foster's. I can't confirm it. I learned them from a musician named Steve Seal who played with Ace Weems' Fat Meat Boys. Steve played bass for my group as well as fiddle and banjo.

This is a slow air with myself on mandolin and a good friend on guitar.

This is a tune I first heard played by Wayne Harrell (a mandolin player from Lawerceburg TN). He learned it from the Portland Collection Book Vol. 1 and I think it is a French Canadian tune. I like it and it has become a standard in our jam session. I recorded it with just four mandolin parts, a chop, lead and two harmony parts. Hope you enjoy it.