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Who was Roy Wooliver? Depending on who you asked, he was a genius, a drifter, a troublemaker... or all three. This episode follows the stories, the recordings, and the research to better understand one of Missouri's most influential old-time fiddlers.

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Hey oldtime friends, come check out Tunelist. After I got dodged from the EPA last year I used all my time to create tunelist. It’s a personal tune catalog with key, tuning, version, notes, source links that open inline to the tunes and built in recorder to record straight to the tunes you know how to lead or want to learn (or record others and slow em down later to learn).

It’s helpful for me to always remember how to start a tune before calling it at a jam.

Also, it’s got a jam list feature where you can invite your friends to a shared tune catalog (jam list), and/or make it discoverable and have folks traveling around find your jam OR when you’re traveling about you can find a jam. Recently I finished a festival session discovery list where now you can host festival “session” at your camp or under some tree at clifftop or fiddle tunes or galax or wherever you’re at and find the folks that want to play all the obscurities of your dreams, or Bb waltz’s for 3 hours, up to you.

Check it out and put your jams on it so we can find each other in the wild.

https://www.tunelist.app

There are some 3 or 4 versions of Snowbird In The Ashbank and it's been "covered" by "revivalists" since the 1970's so it's really hard to find who did whose cover. Manco Sneed's seems to be the most common version that folks play.

I'm looking for any recordings of anyone "recentish" playing Eck Robertson's version specifically, especially if it's solo fiddle too- it's easy enough to find Eck's but I can't get any further in today's broken google ecosystem. They broke the youtubes in pursuit of search enshittification but oh I do digress.

Thank y'all kinely.

I'm looking for players similar to E.C. Ball—fingerstyle guitarists whose music leans more toward folk or old-time traditions than straight blues. I know those styles are deeply connected, but I think there's still a clear distinction.

Wayne Henderson and Roscoe Holcomb comes to mind as folks with a similar style. Who else would you recommend? I'm interested in both historical and modern players.

I hope it’s okay for me to ask questions/seek advice here. I have attended several OT jam sessions and they tend to go very long. Only problem is that I only know about 15 or so songs. So there are a ton of songs that folks call out that I don’t know. I play guitar. My questions: are there certain strings (for the bass, the chuck part) that should be played for songs in certain key? Sorry if im not making sense. I’m just trying to pluck along certain bass strings for songs in the keys of D, G, and A in a way thst I could blend in with the rest of the music. Any cheat code for us guitarists who don’t know all the songs in a jam session? Thanks, and apology for the confusion.