FRC 729 - H.K. Silvey - Fiddling from Ozark County, Mo | H.K. Silvey

FRC 729 - H.K. Silvey - Fiddling from Ozark County, Mo

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	1.	Wake Up Little Susan 03:03
	2.	Uncle Herm's Hornpipe 01:56
	3.	Coming Down from Denver 02:24
	4.	Ragtime Annie 01:52
	5.	Sugar in the Gourd 02:46
	6.	Hummingbird Reel 01:57
	7.	Billy in the Low Ground 02:23
	8.	Flop-Eared Mule 02:37
	9.	Eighth of January 02:19
	10.	Black Mountain Rag 02:19
	11.	Lonesome Indian 01:53
	12.	Old Time Dry and Dusty 02:29
	13.	Liberty 01:48
	14.	Hooker's Hornpipe 01:57
	15.	Oklahoma Rooster 01:48
	16.	St. Joe's Hornpipe 02:21
	17.	Snowshoes 03:01
	18.	Dance Around Molly 02:25
	19.	Kingdom Come 01:53
	20.	Shepherd's Waltz 02:05
	21.	Tennessee Waggoner 02:20
	22.	Cotton Eyed Joe 02:19
	23.	Fire on the Mountain 01:59
	24.	Red Apple Rag 02:27
	25.	Ball and Chain Hornpipe 02:28
	26.	Soldier's Joy 01:52
	27.	Old Fort Smith 02:30
	28.	Rachel 01:48
	29.	Tom & Jerry 03:08
	30.	Twinkle Little Star 02:25

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H.K. (Hubert K.) Silvey is one of the last old-time Ozarks ﬁddlers of his generation, raised in the milieu where ﬁddling and square dances were a part of everyday life. Born in 1933 on a farm near Longrun in Ozark County, Missouri, H.K. grew up hearing his uncle Jess Silvey play for music parties and dances and learned to back him up on guitar. At age 15, H.K. himself began to play ﬁddle in the traditional manner—that is, by sneaking his uncle’s ﬁddle out of the case while he was gone. Soon after the secret was out, he joined his Uncle Jess and other local musicians at dances and music parties. Another musician who inﬂuenced H.K. was Lonnie Robertson, from Theodosia, MO, who played professionally on radio stations across the Midwest. In 1953, H.K. went to work as a mechanic in the aerospace industry, a career that took him to Louisiana, New Mexico, and Colorado, playing in contests, and with country and bluegrass bands. He returned home in 1973 and resumed farming and ﬁddling around the community.

I met H.K. 25 years ago at a Monday night music party in the home of Aileen and Lester Adams in McClurg, MO, and right away I noticed his energetic, smooth bowing and his repertoire, which varied from what some of the other ﬁddlers played that night. It is our hope these 2016 home sessions capture the feeling of what I heard that evening long ago. – Jim Nelson

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released December 1, 2020

PERSONNEL: H.K. Silvey (ﬁddle); Nathan McAlister (banjo); Jim Nelson (guitar).

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