FRC 721 - Bob Holt: Dance Fiddling from the Missouri Ozarks (1993 recordings by Jim Nelson) | Bob Holt

FRC 721 - Bob Holt: Dance Fiddling from the Missouri Ozarks (1993 recordings by Jim Nelson)

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1.	Rattlesnake 02:02	buy track
2.	[chat - Rattlesnake] 01:31	buy track
3.	Louisville Breakdown 01:38	buy track
4.	[chat - fiddlers from around,Ava,MO] 01:48	buy track
5.	Rye Whiskey 01:38	buy track
6.	Step Up Susie 03:17	buy track
7.	[chat - learning tunes from memory] 01:09	buy track
8.	Dance Around Molly 02:05	buy track
9.	Sugar in the Coffee-O & Hop Up Kitty Puss 02:21	buy track
10.	[chat] 01:32	buy track
11.	Florida Blues 01:42	buy track
12.	Turkey Knob 02:06	buy track
13.	Fort Smith 02:03	buy track
14.	[chat Midwestern musicians] 05:34	buy track
15.	Billy Wilson-Billy Cheatham-Polk County Breakdown 04:23	buy track
16.	[chat - Tommy Magness] 00:57	buy track
17.	9th of January (Charlie Deckard's Old-Time 8th of January) 02:04	buy track
18.	[chat - 9th of January] 01:24	buy track
19.	Cotton Blossom 01:59	buy track
20.	Sally Ann 02:48	buy track
21.	[chat - Sally Ann] 00:41	buy track
22.	Sally Goodin in G 01:58	buy track
23.	[chat - Sally Goodin] 00:36	buy track
24.	Little Creek Rag 01:29	buy track
25.	Rabbit in the Pea Patch 01:58	buy track
26.	[chat] 01:26	buy track
27.	Green Valley Waltz 02:10	buy track
28.	Little Dutch Girl 02:04	buy track

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I first met Ava, Missouri fiddler Bob Holt (1930-2004) when I began to attend music parties in nearby McClurg, around 1990. Because of Bob’s drive and backbeat, his preference for breakdowns, and his contagious enthusiasm for the music, I found him exhilarating to play with and listen to. His eclectic repertoire included not the only the breakdowns, rags, blues, and waltzes popular in the Missouri Ozarks, but also polkas, schottisches, and whatever else took his fancy. His early influences ranged from his father (a first-rate whistler, who used to urge Bob to play him “something quick and devilish”) and his banjo-playing uncle, to Arthur Smith, the Skillet Lickers, and Lonnie Robertson; but he never stopped listening to and learning from other fiddlers, as long as they adhered to his idea of “old-time.” Bob was proud of his NEA National Heritage Fellowship, his travels to festivals throughout the country, and his fiddle students. But he was proudest of all of his popularity as a square dance fiddler-especially of how he and the dancers egged each other on until the dancers got “wound up tighter than an eight-day clock,” attaining what old-time musicians throughout the country have come to call “Bob Holt speed.” As he once remarked, “If I can just make people dance-just make it to where they can’t possibly sit still-that’s my pay.”- Julie Henigan

Photo by Allen Gage (courtesy of Ruth Massey, Bittersweet Magazine)

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released December 27, 2016

All tracks feature Bob Holt (fiddle) and Jim Nelson (guitar), except for track 19 (Geoff Seitz, guitar). Geoff Seitz plays second fiddle on tracks 6,15, & 20.

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