FRC 728 - Teodar Jackson - African American Fiddling from Texas | Teodar Jackson with T.J. Jackson

FRC 728 - Teodar Jackson - African American Fiddling from Texas

by Teodar Jackson with T.J. Jackson

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	1.	Old Aunt Jessie 02:57
	2.	Blood Red Rose 02:25
	3.	Ain't Gonna Marry 04:10
	4.	Drunkard's Hiccups 04:07
	5.	Early Morning Blues 02:19
	6.	Eighth of January 01:16
	7.	Golden Slippers 03:20
	8.	Lost John 03:37
	9.	Mama Don't Allow 02:16
	10.	Whoa Mule 04:04
	11.	Out and Down 01:36
	12.	Right Key 04:10
	13.	See See Rider 02:44
	14.	Stavin' Chain 03:37
	15.	Sun Gonna Shine In My Back Door 05:15
	16.	Poor Rabbit 02:22
	17.	Train Tune 03:57
	18.	West Texas Blues 05:01
	19.	Alley Blues 06:26

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Teodar Jackson (1903-1966) was an old-time fiddler with deep roots in Texas. He was born in Gonzales County, where his family had farmed since his grandfather emigrated from Mississippi sometime after 1850. African-Americans numbered roughly a third of the county’s population in the 1880s. Communities like Wesley Chapel, Monthalia and Canoe Creek were small rural sanctuaries where many musicians came of age to the sound of old-time fiddling at dances and country suppers. By the 1940s the family had moved north to the Austin area, settling in the St. John’s community, where Mr. Jackson remained a fiddler known to all as ‘T-olee’ and to family as ‘Papa-T’. Familiar square-dance tunes, blues, and rags made up a large part of his repertoire, but in addition he played a number of set-pieces that hint at something perhaps older, otherwise lost to our ears, until his playing was recorded by Tary Owens in Austin, in 1965. – Dan Foster

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released May 5, 2020

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