Black Eyed Susan

• Old banjo singer Roscoe Holcomb on Smithsonian: Mountain Music of Kentucky [scroll down & click to hear a short clip] or hear the whole track [utoob]. 

• Old fiddlers at Slippery Hill: John Sykes [mp3, key=D], Oscar Jenkins [mp3, key=D], Luther Strong [mp3, key=D], Skillet Lickers [mp3, key=G], JW Day [mp3, key=D].

• Wild fiddling by Prairie Acre [utoob] (key=D).

• Mary Jane Michelle twin fiddles [utoob, key=A].

• Bigfoot Stringband, Clifftop winners (Rhys Jones, John Herrmann, more) [utoob, key=A].

• Old Crow Medicine Show, first album [utoob, key=D].

• Whitetop Mountaineers [utoob, key=C].

• We have this on a compilation CD from Smithsonian Folkways. Scroll down for a clip with Mike Seeger.

• We have this on the "Galax Way" CD by New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters (key of A). There are no clips on-line. The CD sells for over $100 on some sites. County Sales lists it for $13.50.

• Fiddler Kirk Sutphin [clip on Amazon, key=D].

• Old fiddler J.P. Nestor [mp3 player at The Bristol Sessions] [utoob non-video] 1927 Bristol Sessions.

• Solo fiddle in the bedroom [tube].

• The MidRiffs on stage [tube].

• Named after the Maryland state flower: Rudbeckia hirta.

• Great fretless solo banjo [tube] by Dan Gellert.

• DC Square Dance [utoob, poor audio] with Brauneis fiddling.

• The Old Time Snake Milkers [OTSM] with harmonica.

• Brad Kolodner on fretless gourd banjo [utoob].

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