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FRC 726 - Vernon Spencer of Big Springs, Kansas (Tricia Spencer collection)

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of FRC 739 - Eunice Yeatts McAlexander, Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 1: From British Tradition, Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 2: A Musical Melting Pot, Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 4: The Anglo-African Exchange, Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 3: Songs of Melancholy and Sorrow, Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 5: Grown on American Soil, FRC 749 - Robert "Strawberry" McCloud - Bloomington Breakdown, FRC 750 - Luther Davis & Hus Caudill - Old-Time Galax-Style Twin Fiddling recorded by Tom Carter & Blanton Owen, and 114 more. , and , .

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1.	Intro (By Wilbur Foss) 00:33	buy track
2.	Spotted Pony 01:47	buy track
3.	Stony Point 01:07	buy track
4.	Please Papa, Don't Whip Little Danny 02:36	buy track
5.	Uncle Joe 01:06	buy track
6.	Wednesday Night Waltz 02:55	buy track
7.	Hooker's Hornpipe 01:44	buy track
8.	Joys of Quebec 01:06	buy track
9.	Banjo Signal 02:02	buy track
10.	Canary Waltz 02:04	buy track
11.	Brillancy 02:22	buy track
12.	Big Springs 01:05	buy track
13.	Twinkle Little Star 01:09	buy track
14.	Red Fox Waltz 01:21	buy track
15.	Salty River Reel 01:49	buy track
16.	A & E Waltz 02:08	buy track
17.	The Old Bulldog 01:29	buy track
18.	Coming Down From Denver 01:39	buy track
19.	Fat Meat and Dumplings 01:10	buy track
20.	White Rose Waltz 02:33	buy track
21.	Marmaduke's Hornpipe 01:31	buy track
22.	Tipperary 01:42	buy track
23.	The Old Man And The Old Woman 01:06	buy track
24.	Acorn Hill Breakdown 01:33	buy track
25.	Clark's Waltz 02:26	buy track
26.	Stone's Rag 02:01	buy track
27.	Sail Away Ladies 00:59	buy track
28.	Sailor's Hornpipe 01:30	buy track
29.	Golden Slippers 02:58	buy track
30.	Swedish Waltz 02:30	buy track
31.	Oklahoma Redbird 01:19	buy track
32.	Vern's Waltz in E 02:08	buy track
33.	Up Jumped the Devil 01:48	buy track
34.	Woodchopper's Breakdown 01:12	buy track
35.	Steel Guitar Chimes 02:15	buy track
36.	The Jones Waltz 02:33	buy track
37.	Durham's Bull 01:26	buy track
38.	Durham's Bull (Tricia) 01:01	buy track
39.	Spotted Pony (Tricia) 01:23	buy track

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Vernon Spencer ran an old Skelly gas station between Topeka and Lawrence in the tiny town of Big Springs, Kansas. It was here that you could fill up your tank and get some basic essentials, or Vernon would get his fiddle off of the wall and have a tune or two. The Spencer family moved from LaRue County, Kentucky to Douglas County, Kansas in 1857 and have been there ever since. The Spencers have been making music in the county for at least five generations and these recordings, made at home and at fiddle contests, are a window into one family making music together in rural Kansas in the 1960s and ’70s. – Howard Rains

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released March 1, 2019

Personnel: Vernon Spencer (fiddle), Iona Spencer (mandolin, guitar), Rod Spencer (guitar, banjo, mandolin), Roger Spencer (guitar), Tricia Spencer (fiddle), Pat Payne (bass). Please see PDF of online notes for track-by-track personnel.

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