New Book: Nigel Gatherer's Old Time Music

[Nigel Gatherer]

I have just published a wee book of old-time tunes which some people might be interested in. Nigel Gatherer's Old Time Music is a personal choice of various tunes I've learned over the years from friends, acquaintances and from tracks in my record collection. The tunes are:

A & F Reel (from Pete Coe, who got it from Sara Grey)
Buffalo Gals (from a picking weekend in Scotland; John Hatcher's version)
Clog in D (from The Hollow Rock String Band)
Cotton Eyed Joe (from a picking weekend in Scotland; Marcus Martin's version)
Dallas Rag (from Mike Seeger)
Deer Walk (from Fiddlin' Doc Roberts)
Dry and Dusty (from The Morrison Brothers Band)
Ebenezer (from Pete Budd, Edinburgh)
Feed My Horse on Corn and Hay (from Perry Riley)
Fiddler's Dram (from Norman Blake)
Folding Down the Sheets (from The Hollow Rock String Band)
Get Off Your Money (from Nancy Sluys and Sandy Semeonoff)
Grover Jones's Waltz (from The Hollow Rock String Band)
Hare-Lipped Susie (from Steve Turner)
Hell On the Wabash (from Art Rosenbaum)
Horses In the Canebreak (from Matt Brown)
Little Princess's Footsteps (from Nancy Sluys and Sandy Semeonoff)
Monkey In the Dog Cart I (from Nancy Sluys and Sandy Semeonoff)
Monkey In the Dog Cart II (from Sliced Bread String Band)
Muddy Roads (from Pete Cooper; he got it from Gaither Carlton)
Muskrat Rag (from Reese Jarvis)
Old Jake Gillie (from Clark Kessinger)
Old Molly Hare (from Bill Vanaver and Allan Block)
Pretty Little Cat (from Cathy Castet; she told me just too late that this tune is
actually Just Over The Mountain from Henry Reed))
Rusty Nail (by Nigel Gatherer - editor's prerogitive)
Salt Creek (from Steve Turner)
Soldier's Joy (from Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers)
Sweet Sixteen (from Joel Shimberg)
Taylor's Quickstep (from Leonard Rutherford)
Trude Evans (from The Fuzzy Mountain String Band)
Wagoner One-Step (from Earl Collins)
Wednesday Night Waltz (from the Leake County Revellers)
West Fork Girls (from John Greig, Edinburgh)
White Rose of Texas (from Pete Coe)

Available from my on-line store.

[JeffD]

Nigel that book looks really great.

[Jim Nollman]

I second Jeff's appraisal. Besides a few tunes that everybody knows, the bulk of them are brand new to me.