Wood,Jim Rural Felicity: Fiddle Tunes From 18Th And 19Th CD

Rural Felicity, brings together a master fiddler, Jim Wood, with a collection of 18th and 19th American fiddle and fife tunes drawn from an extensive collection of historic manuscripts. The American Vernacular Music Manuscripts is an online collection of original, 1730-1910 music manuscripts that come from the collections of the Center for Popular Music and the American Antiquarian Society. Jim carefully researched the site to choose over 40 tunes to arrange and record. His collection combines fiddle standards old and new, song melodies, airs, minuets, waltzes and more to offer a glimpse into the music people liked to play in their homes in America a century or more ago. Scholar, Chris Goertzen, an authority on early American fiddling, contributed a detailed essay for the liner notes that provide history and context about the tunes and the manuscript collection itself.

1. The CuckooÆs Nest/College Hornpipe 2. Miss McLeodÆs Reel/Opera Reel 3. Circus Air Waltz 4. Morpeth Rant/Guilderoy 5. Maurice French Minuet 6. Saint PatrickÆs Day in the Morning/Come Haste to the Wedding,(Rural Felicity)/Irish Washerwoman 7. WashingtonÆs March 8. FisherÆs Hornpipe/Portsmouth Hornpipe 9. O Dear, What Can the Matter Be/Molly Put the Kettle On 10. Democratic Hornpipe/RickettÆs Hornpipe 11. Logan Water 12. Highland Reel/Money Musk 13. AllenÆs Clog 14. SoldierÆs Joy/Arkansas Traveler/The Fairy Dance 15. DurangÆs Hornpipe/Red Lion Hornpipe 16. Roslin Castle 17. Oyster River/Beaux of Albany/HensonÆs Favorite 18. Planxty George Brabazon 19. Paddy Whack/Rory OÆMoore/Pledge to Julia 20. Jenny LindÆs Favorite Polka/March to Boston 21. MacDonaldÆs Reel/Speed the Plough 22. Home Sweet Home/Dixie/Yankee Doodle 23. My Peggy Is a Young Thing 24. White Cockade/Flowers of Edinburgh 25. DevilÆs Dream/Highland Man Kissed His Mother/The MasonÆs Apron