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FRC 409 - Texas Fiddle Bands: The 1939 Bill Owens Recordings (Researched by Marynell Young)

by Texas Fiddle Bands - The 1939 Bill Owens Recordings

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1.
Hell Among the Yearlings 02:13
2.
Arkansas Traveler 02:07
3.
Durang's Hornpipe 02:20
4.
Rickett's Hornpipe 02:20
5.
Eighth of January 02:16
6.
Soldier's Joy 02:24
7.
Diamond Joe 02:27
8.
Little Fish 02:41
9.
Leather Britches 02:23
10.
Irish Washer Woman 02:09
11.
Rustic Dance 02:12
12.
Cattle in the Cane Break 02:16
13.
Run Feller Run 02:14
14.
Billy in the Lowground 02:11
15.
Give the Fiddler a Dram 02:42
16.
Wagoner 02:01
17.
Pick the Devil's Eye Out 01:55
18.
Heel and Toe Polka with the Night Cap On 01:22
19.
Polka Schottische 01:30
20.
Sally Goodin 01:18
21.
Patsy Mind the Baby 01:31
22.
Cripple Creek 02:57
23.
Bastard King of England 02:40
24.
Cornhuskin Gal 02:48
25.
Mockingbird 02:56
26.
Rochester Schottische 02:37
27.
Sally Johnson 02:39
28.
San Antonio Rose 02:29

about

WILLIAM A. OWENS (1905-1990) was a folklorist, author, and professor of English. Despite the fact that his Pin Hook, Texas school was open only 3 months a year, by 1933 Owens managed to get two degrees at Southern Methodist University. In the late 1930s, working partly on his own and partly for the University of Texas Extension Division, he recorded songs from East Texas to the Texas Coast’s Cajun Country, recording on aluminum discs using cactus needles on a second-hand Vibromaster recorder. Owens wrote many books one of which, Slave Mutiny: The Revolt of the Schooner Amistad (1953), provided much of the material for Steven Spielberg’s 1997 film, Amistad. In 1966 he became a professor of English at Columbia University in NY, and retired as professor emeritus in 1974. – Ray Alden

credits

released November 19, 2015

J.A. Meyers, Vee Tuller, J.D. Dillingham (tracks 1-6), J.D. Dillingham (track 7), Ed Gillespie (tracks 8-14),
Jace Middlin and his Alabama Boll Weevils (track 15), Unknown (tracks 16-17), Colonel Odgen and son Jimmy (tracks
18-21), Sam Welch and Family (tracks 22-28).

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