FRC 724 - Alvis Massengale: Mississippi Fiddle Music (Gus Meade and Howard Marshall collections) | Alvis Massengale

FRC 724 - Alvis Massengale: Mississippi Fiddle Music (Gus Meade and Howard Marshall collections)

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1.	Fisher's Hornpipe 01:36	buy track
2.	Bilbo Rag 01:38	buy track
3.	Sebastapol 02:17	buy track
4.	Happy Hour Breakdown 01:42	buy track
5.	Little Princess Footsteps 01:22	buy track
6.	Going to the Wedding 01:49	buy track
7.	Bring Me a Bottle 02:17	buy track
8.	Goodnight Waltz 02:24	buy track
9.	Magnolia Waltz 01:55	buy track
10.	Monkey in the Dogcart 02:11	buy track
11.	The Old Hat 01:52	buy track
12.	Saturday Night Breakdown 01:13	buy track
13.	Interview 02:28	buy track
14.	Soldier's Joy 01:45	buy track
15.	Ragtime Annie 02:28	buy track
16.	I'll Be All Smiles Tonight 02:44	buy track
17.	Leather Britches 01:55	buy track
18.	Over the Waves 02:11	buy track
19.	Make Me a Pallet 02:11	buy track
20.	Mississippi Sawyer 02:40	buy track
21.	Rickett's Hornpipe 01:20	buy track
22.	Arkansas Traveler 01:45	buy track
23.	Sweet Bunch o' Daisies 02:04	buy track
24.	Sweet Mama Every Night 01:35	buy track
25.	Faded Love 01:39	buy track
26.	Peekaboo Waltz 02:12	buy track
27.	Durang's Hornpipe 01:34	buy track
28.	Chicken Reel 01:23	buy track
29.	Golden Slippers 02:13	buy track
30.	Turkey in the Straw 02:07	buy track

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Mississippi fiddler Alvis Massengale ably led the Newton County Hillbillies on their six 78rpm recordings in 1930. Although he continued to play locally, we know little of him until the early 1970s when he made
two sets of field recordings, one for Gus Meade and a later one for Howard Marshall in preparation for the 1974 Smithsonian Folk Festival in Washington D.C. which featured Mississippi musicians. Then in his mid-seventies, he was still playing impressively well, as you can hear in these recordings. Several of his tunes are unique, such as “Sebastapol” for which we have no other source. With pleasure we bring these recordings
to a larger audience. – Harry Bolick

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released October 30, 2017

Alvis Massengale, fiddle. Tracks 1-3, 8, 9 recorded by Gus Meade in the 1970s; all other tracks recorded by Howard Marshall in 1973

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