Funding for Down Home Radio is provided in part by The Puffin Foundation and by Eck Robertson: Famous Cowboy Fiddler LP
This is an awesome solo fiddle record of Texas fiddler Eck Robertson, recorded by Mike Seeger, John Cohen & Tracy Schwarz – The New Lost City Ramblers, at Eck’s home in 1963. Robertson was the first person to record and issue country music on vinyl record back in 1922, and as the notes to this late era LP (released in 1991) point out, he may also be the last! This is really a fantastic record, put out by County Records and as far as I know has not been reissued anywhere.
See below for the notes to this record:
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January 29th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Fantastic!
January 31st, 2009 at 5:50 am
Superb record, 100% fiddle music and one of the great fiddler. Thanks Eli
June 11th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Cut number 7 on side B (“Unnamed Tune”) is probably “Dry and Dusty.” Bruce Greene plays this on his tape “Fiddler’s Dozen.”
June 26th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Wonderful fiddle. One mistake though: vinyl wasn’t made in 1922 !!!
If you ever owned a 78 rpm record you know. It was bakelite or somesuch material, not flexible, easily broken
July 16th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Nice post.
Also, Suni McGrath, are you THE Suni McGrath, the steel-string guitar soli? Or are you just borrowing the name? I love Cornflower Suite and I’ve been looking for the album Childgrove for a long time.
September 13th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Yes, that’s me,
I happen to be a fiddler also and a banjo picker
with family roots in backwoods mountain music. One uncle even played the saw ! If you wish, you can go to a Myspace site- Suni McGrath
I am an old “Villager” also and like to share memories of Greenwich Village ~1960-1965 and appreciate any photos of the time. If anyone is curious you can get a small example on a free videoon WFMU website called “Village Sunday”.
March 17th, 2010 at 7:36 am
Thank you for this; before my old hard drive died, a friend downloaded this LP and sent it to me, and he’d told me where he got it. I had all my music filed in folders, but unfortunately, this one was mislabeled, and I’ve been looking for it ever since to play it along with my CD of Eck.
Thanks again, and also to Google for suggesting I include the word ‘blogspot’ in my search terms…eerie.
All the best, I love your site and your efforts, as well as your work with the Dust Busters, which I downloaded awhile back -
Kegan