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Home Made Sugar on a Puncheon Floor
Artist:
Howdy Forrester
Format: CD
New: Currently Unavailable New
Wish
Formats and Editions
1. Warm Up
2. Dugler With A Shoefly On
3. That Must Have Been A Tie
4. Mckinley
5. Home Made Sugar And A Puncheon Floor
6. Arthur Smith's Twinkle Little Star
7. I've Never Heard Anybody Play It But Arthur
8. Stump Tail Dog
9. Well It's Different
10. Uncle John Wills's Lost Indian
11. You Did A Whoop
12. Still On The Hill (Sells Brothers Circus Rag) [Feat. John Hartford]
13. Tumbling Creek Liza Jane
14. Tell You Where I First Heard That One
15. Ladies In The Ballroom
16. Benny Didn't Get Into That Part
17. Going Across The Sea
18. That's More Like A Scotland Tune
19. Cotton Eyed Joe
20. Sugar In The Gourd
21. Possum Up A Gum Stump
22. Balance All
23. Paddy On The Turnpike
24. Polly Put The Kettle On
25. You Ever Heard Secesh
26. Secesh
27. Greenback Dollar... Vernon Solomon Never Heard That
28. Lady Of The Lake
29. Roy Talked About Grandpappy George Wilkerson
30. Going Uptown
31. Even Back In Those Days
32. Bitter Creek
33. Run Out Of Tunes
More Info:
Fans may know Howdy's music from his long time work with Roy Acuff. The present home recordings, from the personal library of John Hartford, give us a powerful glimpse of the roots of Howdy's mature style. They are a missing link between early string band material and the polished, technically supercharged modern contest-style fiddling of which Howdy was a primary architect. Howdy's music evolved from the tunes and style that he received from his Uncle Bob Cates, revealing along the way Howdy's work with Benny Thomasson, the inescapable influence of Arthur Smith, the time spent playing with Bill Monroe, and the study of Kreisler's recordings. When Howdy revisited these old-time tunes from his Hickman County youth with John Hartford in the 1980s, they had passed through the filter of Howdy's vast experiences and development. Howdy played Middle Tennessee old-time fiddle better than anyone else, as these previously unreleased recordings make abundantly clear. John Hartford is a man who needs no introduction.
