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Old Dan Tucker! Take your partners. One Tucker over here, one over ther, c'mon boys...

Judge Sturdy and his "Orchestra" (a small string band) play the traditional country dance tune "Old

Quadrille! Take your partners boys, c'mon...

It's funny how impatient the caller sounds in these recordings. "C'mon boys, shake a leg!"

Judge

I am a roving gambler,
I gambled down in town,
Whereever I () for the sake of the cards I'll lie m

An old traditional song described on the record label as a "Mountaineer's Song with violin and guita

Traditional "Mountain Dance Music" tune, recorded March 23, 1926 by the Blue Ridge Highballers ("led

Traditional "Mountain Dance Music" tune, recorded March 23, 1926 by the Blue Ridge Highballers ("led

Had a little gal and her name was Sally Goodin,
Asked her to marry me and then she said she wouldn'

Great mouth harp work on this 1929 recording of the traditional folk tune "Sally Goodin" by Obed "Da

Original 78rpm disk (Columbia A2140) digitized by old78collector
A very early recording of

Very early country fiddle duet, recorded June 1922. Arkansaw Traveler played by Henry C Gilliland an

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Right hand to your partner,
...
Swing your opposite,
Swing your own,
Swing your parter 'til

An early banjo with calls version of a traditional Appalachian breakdown more often known as "Shout

Great performance of a traditional tune by fiddler "Uncle" A.C. "Eck" Robertson in this 1922 recordi