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\'Listen\' Believe Me If All These Endearing Young Charms (0:41) Listen | Download
Cecil Butler

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\'Listen\' Blue Mountain Lake (1:09) Listen | Download
Lawrence Older

“Those old people would hear something played and they’d give it a name that sounded alright to them...(referring to ‘Blue Water Hornpipe’ as ‘Blue Mountain Lake’)...he (Lukie Nichols) not only played it in G, but he calls it ‘Blue Mountain Lake’ something or other, but it was taken from the ‘Blue Water Hornpipe.’ They just couldn’t swing it, you know, and it evolved into pretty much a different tune.”

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\'Listen\' Bonnet Trimmed in Blue (1:03) Listen | Download
Lawrence Older

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\'Listen\' Canadian Fourstep (1:12) Listen | Download
Roch \"Frenchie\" Chaloux

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\'Listen\' Centennial Waltz (1:48) Listen | Download
George Pratt

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\'Listen\' Chateaugay Reel (2:16) Listen | Download
Ken Bonner

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\'Listen\' Chateaugay Waltz (2:04) Listen | Download
Ken Bonner

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\'Listen\' Circular Two-Step/Reel in G and Elm (3:57) Listen | Download
(Medley)
Don Woodcock

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\'Listen\' Crooked Stovepipe (2:39) Listen | Download
Don Perkins

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\'Listen\' Dad\'s Reel/Reel in D/Trume’s Reel (3:48) Listen | Download
(Medley)
Don Woodcock

These three tunes I am willing to bet have never been recorded. I played these for many fiddlers all over and no one ever had heard them. The first two are tunes Dad played and the last one I learned from an old time fiddler, Truman Crary. Truman was born in 1882 and died in 1972. He lived about 4 miles up the road from me. He played for many years for the Joe Calipari Orchestra from Potsdam [a very popular dance group here in the 1940s to 1960s, at least].

Dad and I would often go and visit “Trume” as we affectionately called him. We would spend Sunday afternoons around the piano. When we would get ready to leave, Trume would sometimes cry and tell us he wished we would visit him more often. Getting back to the last tune that I learned from Trume, it was about 1962 when I heard him play it a special event. I recall people were dancing the Virginia Reel to this tune. I don’t know if this was often played for this specific dance or not.

\'Listen\' Danny Flannigan’s (2:46) Listen | Download
Don Perkins

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\'Listen\' Farmer’s Wife (2:17) Listen | Download
Vic Kibler

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\'Listen\' Fiddle Strings (1:39) Listen | Download
Vincent Boyea

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\'Listen\' Fountain’s Jig (1:48) Listen | Download
Ken Bonner

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\'Listen\' Fountain’s Reel (2:07) Listen | Download
Ken Bonner

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\'Listen\' G & C Reel (1:06) Listen | Download
Phil Cook

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\'Listen\' Gary Owen (1:35) Listen | Download
Alice Clemens

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\'Listen\' Gary Owen Jig (1:10) Listen | Download
Roch \"Frenchie\" Chaloux
(It is interesting to compare this with Alice Clemens’ version of the same tune.)

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\'Listen\' Glise a Sherbrooke (1:15) Listen | Download
aka Home Sweet Home
Phil Cook

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\'Listen\' Golden Slippers (1:44) Listen | Download
Vincent Boyea

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\'Listen\' Grandpa’s Reel (1:56) Listen | Download
Vic Kibler

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\'Listen\' Irishtown Breakdown (0:38) Listen | Download
Cecil Butler

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\'Listen\' Jimmy’s Favorite Jig (2:23) Listen | Download
Don Perkins

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\'Listen\' Ken Bonner Shuffle (1:16) Listen | Download
Ken Bonner

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\'Listen\' Larry O’Gaff
(1:06) Listen | Download
Vic Kibler

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\'Listen\' Light ‘n’ Airy (1:07) Listen | Download
Lawrence Older

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\'Listen\' Miss McCloud’s Reel (1:42) Listen | Download
Howard Woodcock

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\'Listen\' Naughty Waltz (2:34) Listen | Download
Don Woodcock

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\'Listen\' Niskayuna (0:59) Listen | Download
Lawrence Older

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\'Listen\' Ode to Beanie Pratt (2:05) Listen | Download
Ken Bonner

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\'Listen\' Old Dance Tune (1:42) Listen | Download
Lawrence Older

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\'Listen\' Opera Reel (1:43) Listen | Download
Alice Clemens

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\'Listen\' Poor Girl Waltz (3:35) Listen | Download
Vincent Boyea

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\'Listen\' Portland Fancy (1:34) Listen | Download
Phil Cook

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\'Listen\' Prairie Schottische (0:52) Listen | Download
Vic Kibler

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\'Listen\' Rippling Waters Jig (1:01) Listen | Download
George Pratt

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\'Listen\' Ripsaw (1:52) Listen | Download
Vic Kibler

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\'Listen\' Rochester Schottische (1:41) Listen | Download
locally known as \"“Father Grundy”
Lawrence Older

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\'Listen\' Skillet Lickin’ Breakdown (2:10) Listen | Download
Ken Bonner

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\'Listen\' Soldier’s Joy (0:28) Listen | Download
Cecil Butler

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\'Listen\' Stack of Barley (1:16) Listen | Download
Roch \"Frenchie\" Chaloux

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\'Listen\' Stony Creek Jig (2:18) Listen | Download
Ken Bonner

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\'Listen\' Stony Creek Stomp (2:15) Listen | Download
Ken Bonner

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\'Listen\' Sugar in the Gourd #2 (1:57) Listen | Download
Ken Bonner

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\'Listen\' The Country Waltz (2:28) Listen | Download
Ken Bonner

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\'Listen\' The Kelly Waltz (2:20) Listen | Download
Alice Clemens

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\'Listen\' Turkey in the Straw (2:53) Listen | Download
with lyrics
Ken Bonner

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\'Listen\' Uncle Lewis’ Tune #1 (2:34) Listen | Download
Vic Kibler

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\'Listen\' Uncle Lukey’s Breakdown (1:24) Listen | Download
Vic Kibler

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\'Listen\' Uncle Maurice’s Tune #1 (1:59) Listen | Download
Vic Kibler

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\'Listen\' When Johnny Comes Home From the Fair (0:49) Listen | Download
Vic Kibler

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