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The LEADER IN CLASSIC BLUEGRASS COLLECTIONS...

Historic AMERICAN FIDDLE MUSIC Preserved Here For FUTURE GENERATIONS !
30 Classic Bluegrass Fiddle Tunes...Many Tracks Never-Before-Available On CD

Continuing with our successful SOUND TRADITIONS Series, comes this special new 30 Song Heritage Collection title, APPALACHIAN FIDDLE BREAKDOWN which contains Authentic Traditional Fiddle Music preserved for FUTURE GENERATIONS and debuts many classic recorded songs Never-Before-Available on CD...and fun to listen too !

In the 60 s and 70 s, if you were a young fiddler living the Appalachian regions and neighboring communities you more than likely were aware of the popular 10 Volume HOE DOWN - Fiddle Tunes album series on Rural Rhythm. One young fiddler who was heavily influenced and inspired by these historic traditional Fiddle Tune albums was Mike Hartgrove, who today is the veteran fiddler with top Bluegrass group the Lonesome River Band and formerly with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, founding member of IIIrd Tyme Out and The Bluegrass Cardinals. As a child, Mike learned those classic fiddle tunes, many which can be found on this new FIDDLE COLLECTION, from his Dad s record album collection of HOE DOWN Fiddle Tunes on Rural Rhythm.

APPALACHIAN FIDDLE BREAKDOWN is compiled from 4 Volumes of those historic HOE DOWN Fiddle Tune albums: Volume 2 RR-154, Volume 3 RR-114, Volume 4 RR-121 and Volume 8 RR-122. These 4 Volumes contained truly authentic performances by fiddle tune specialists and champion fiddlers Mutt Poston and DeWayne Wear. This new FIDDLE COLLECTION culls 30 Classic Fiddle Tunes from these 4 Volumes including: Cotton Eyed Joe , Black Mountain Rag , Old Joe Clark , Fire On The Mountain , Run By Run , Soldier s Joy , Little Liza Jane , Mississippi Sawyer , The Irish Jig , Turkey In The Straw and twenty more.

Many of the key fiddle styles such as reels, rags (know as ragtime), hornpipes (brought from the British Isles) and jigs (brought from Ireland), are represented here on this new FIDDLE COLLECTION and gives us a nice snap shot of popular Bluegrass & Country dance tunes heard at social gatherings throughout the rural communities several years ago. These songs will sound very familiar to you, but you may not recognize all of them by the titles listed here. For example, the song Sailors Hornpipe was use as the melody for the popular cartoon Popeye and the melody for the Eighth of January was the framework for the hit single by Johnny Horton The Battle Of New Orleans ..

Each song was remastered from the original master tapes by Steve Hoffman, (a leading mastering engineer in the High End Audio market). The end results are some of the best sounding authentic Traditional Bluegrass music available today!

This new FIDDLE COLLECTION title is part of the process by which classic songs are handed down to FUTURE GENERATIONS as a part of our AMERICANA MUSIC HERITAGE. The oldest of these songs crossed the ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but all of them have endured, and thanks to this new collection and others in the SOUND TRADITIONS series, future generations will be introduced to this music and hand it on to their children.