Five Miles of Ellum Wood CD

Here is a selection of twenty-two rare and beautiful fiddle solos from another age. Bruce learned to play these tunes from some of the last living fiddlers of Kentucky, whose music had been passed down from the 1800’s when the playing of unaccompanied fiddle tunes was still a common practice.

Tune List
Five Miles of Ellum Wood - Kiss me Quick, My Papa’s A’Coming - Young Edward - Fontaine’s Ferry - The Banks of the Arkansas - The Last of Sizemore - Jack’s Creek Ridge - The Big Mule - Old Christmas - The Kentucky Winder - Squire Campbell - Old Joe Williams - The Brush Fork of John’s Creek - Trouble On the Mind - Across the Plains - Viney Lusk - Going Across the Sea - The Wild Goose Chase - The Old Blue Bonnet - Old Time Brickyard Joe - Betty Baker - Old Bob

"Traditional fiddle tunes from Kentucky, played by one of the best (if not the best Kentucky-fiddle players alive, Bruce Greene. Tunes in the tradition and style of Jim Bowles, Hiram Stamper or John Salyer."
– Music Network, Bremen, Germany

Rare Old Chestnuts

This is a collection of twenty-two interesting and unexpected versions of old favorite fiddle tunes, learned from the playing of numerous traditional fiddlers who were born as far back as the 1870’s. Don Pedi, mountain dulcimer, and Bruce Greene, fiddle, have been friends and musical partners for more than twenty years. Both have spent a good part of their lives working, playing music, and and living alongside old time country musicians in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky. They love the old fiddle tunes, rare or common, and are, in fact, becoming rare old chestnuts themselves.

Tune List
Old Joe Clark – Old Molly Hare – Buffalo Gals – Fire On The Mountain – Pop Goes the Weasel – Turkey In The Straw – Yellow Rose Of Texas – Shortnin’ Bread – Cripple Creek – Durang’s Hornpipe – Cotton Eyed Joe – Barlow Knife – Sally Goodin – Whiskey Before Breakfast – Blackberry Blossoms – Arkansas Traveler – Pretty Betty Martin – Blue Wing Fly – What’ll We Do With The Baby O – Little Sally Ann – The Girl I Left Behind Me – Steppin’ In The Parlor

Come Near My Love:
Mostly Quiet and Dark Songs

This is a collection of thirteen unaccompanied, mostly Southern, songs and ballads. Bruce Greene and Loy McWhirter have been absorbing songs since early childhood. They do not read notes and so learn by ear and word of mouth. When they met in 1975, they started learning each other’s songs and singing together acapella harmony. It has been said that all they have inside their heads are songwords, melodies, and fiddle tunes, which may well be true. Be that as it may, this is a collection of some of their favorite traditional and not-so-traditional songs and ballads, sung the old way without accompaniment.

Bruce Greene and Loy McWhirter

Tune List
Come Near My Love - Omie Wise - Moonshiner - O, Lily-O - Keys To The Kingdom - Lady Margaret - O, Death - As I Walked Out - No Fooling - Let Me Be Your Satellite - Rocket Man - Witch of Usher’s Well - Vance No More