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FRC 706 - Howard Miller: 60 Years of North Carolina Fiddling (Harold Dean Miller & Marshall Wyatt collections)

by Howard Miller

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1.
What Makes You Do Me Like You Do Do Do 01:52
2.
Old Hen Cackle 02:07
3.
Twinkle Little Star 01:59
4.
Stoney Point 02:19
5.
Midnight Waltz 02:40
6.
Ragtime Annie 00:52
7.
Train 45 01:45
8.
I Saw a Man at the Close of Day 01:39
9.
East Tennessee Blues 02:00
10.
Flop Eared Mule 01:02
11.
Pig in a Pen 01:17
12.
Sally Ann 01:52
13.
Turkey in the Straw 01:41
14.
Lee Highway Blues 02:33
15.
John Henry 01:46
16.
Florida Blues 01:55
17.
Walking in My Sleep 02:10
18.
Soldier's Joy 01:18
19.
Billy in the Lowground 02:04
20.
Spoken 00:43
21.
Old Hen Cackle 01:46
22.
Handsome Molly 01:40
23.
I've Always Been a Rambler 01:27
24.
Lonesome Road Blues 01:35
25.
Chicken Reel 01:27
26.
Liza Jane 01:24
27.
I Saw a Man at the Close of Day 01:50
28.
Cumberland Gap 01:25
29.
Lee Highway Blues 01:51
30.
Little Maggie 01:17
31.
Old Joe Clark 01:47
32.
Train 45 02:46
33.
Billy in the Lowground 02:11
34.
Lost Indian 01:25
35.
Sally Goodin 01:25
36.
Back Up & Push 01:54
37.
Stoney Point 02:17
38.
Black Eyed Susie 01:37
39.
Cotton Eyed Joe 01:22
40.
Sally Ann 01:40
41.
Short Life of Trouble 01:20
42.
Governor Al Smith for President 02:58

about

Howard Miller (1912-1990) of Ashe County, North Carolina, was taught to fiddle by his father, Charles, and grandfather, Monroe Miller. During his teenage years, Howard played music with master fiddler Gilliam Banmon (G.B.) Grayson, and learned much of Grayson’s repertoire. In 1928, Charles and Howard Miller recorded a session for Columbia Records as members of the Carolina Night Hawks. Over the next four decades, Howard won prizes at many regional fiddling contests, including the famed White Top Folk Festival. In 1978 and again in 1989, Howard’s son Harold Dean Miller made home recordings that captured the essence of his father’s music. These sessions establish Howard Miller as a prime interpreter of the G.B. Grayson repertoire and as a dynamic fiddler in his own right whose talent remained undiminished through the years. – Marshall Wyatt

For more information on Howard Miller, also visit the Old Hat Records website - www.oldhatrecords.com/ResearchNighthawks.html

credits

released October 1, 2015

Howard Miller, fiddle; Harold Dean Miller, guitar. Tracks 38-40: Howard Miller, solo fiddle. Track 42 (1928) by the Carolina Night Hawks: Howard Miller, fiddle; Charlies Miller, guitar; Ted Bare, vocal & mandolin; Donald Thompson, banjo.

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