Hartford,John / Forrester,Howdy Home Made Sugar On A Puncheon Floor CD

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.

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) 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. Cotton Eyed Joe 19. Sugar in the Gourd 20. Possum Up a Gum Stump 21. Balance All 22. Paddy on the Turnpike 23. Polly Put the Kettle on 24. You Ever Hear Secesh? 25. Secesh 26. Greenback Dollar... Vernon Solomon Never Heard That 27. Lady of the Lake 28. Roy Talks Grandpappy George Wilkerson 29. Going Uptown 30. Even Back in These Days 31. Bitter Creek 32. Run Out of Tunes