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This blog is for the sharing of non-copyrighted or out-of-print Texas style fiddle music. If you believe something posted here should not be shared, please contact me. Feel free to share this site on social media via Facebook, YouTube, etc.

If you download something, please share something back, too. Also, if you have information about any of these recordings, please pass it along. The goal of this site is to preserve the music with as much supplemental information as we can get!

Most of the music is shared in a .zip file format. You must decompress the .zip file before you can access and play the individual .mp3 songs. It's pretty easy with both Windows and Mac.

DISCLAIMER:
Much of this music was recorded from old worn cassettes that have been sitting in a box deteriorating for years. So...sometimes it sounds like music recorded from old worn cassettes that have been deteriorating for years. It's not studio quality, but it is good enough that you will still love the music.

Monday, August 17, 2015

Johnny Gimble's Texas Playboy Reunion 1990

You can't really talk great Texas fiddle music without including Bob Wills and Johnny Gimble. Here's a two part tape of Johnny's Playboy Reunion band in concert. This one was recorded live in 1990 at the Pinesong Music Festival in Spokane, Washington. See the photo below from the cassette for the full credits.

Download Link: Johnny Gimble's Texas Playboy Reunion Live 1990 Tape 1 (108 MB) 

Download Link: Johnny Gimble's Texas Playboy Reunion Live 1990 Tape 2 (111 MB)






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Friday, August 14, 2015

Jimmie Don Bates with Joey and Jason 1987

Here's four tunes played by Jimmie Don Bates in the summer of 1987. Recorded on my little AIWA hand held cassette recorder in the kitchen of Matt Hartz' home in Boise, Idaho. Jason Crisp is on the guitar and Joey McKenzie is on tenor guitar. If you listen closely, at one point you can hear Jason Crisp jokingly offer Matt's mom $3 to fold his laundry...she did not.

Download Link: Jimmie Don with Joey and Jason 1987 (19MB)
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