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FRC404 - Cecil Plum

(Large view)

(From the collection of Jeff Goehring)
These recordings feature Cecil Plum on fiddle and Jeff Goehring on guitar, and were made in 1983 at Cecil.s home in Massillon, Ohio. Cecil was born in 1913 in Tunnellton, West Virginia where he learned to play music from his parents, his uncle, and numerous musicians in his community. Beginning in the late 1930s, Cecil played fiddle and dobro with guitar player Ted Ball in a duet called the Arthur Brothers on a number of radio stations in West Virginia and Maryland. The Arthur Brothers eventually became the backup band for Salt and Peanuts, a husband-and-wife team who performed at the Grand Ole Opry. After moving to Ohio in 1954, Cecil played little music until the 1970s when he attended a fiddle contest and was inspired to take up the fiddle again. Cecil composed a number of the beautiful pieces he plays, including Trumpy.s Hoedown and the Laurel Mountain Breakdown.

Song List:

     
  1 Boggy Road to Texas (4:29)  
  2 Cecil.s home town (talk) (0:49)  
  3 Six White Horses (3:29)  
  4 How Cecil got his fiddle (talk) (2:47)  
  5 Sandy Level (3:12)  
  6 Music in Cecil's Family (talk) (2:01)  
  7 Turkey Buzzard (3:41)  
  8 Cecil recalls the dances (talk) (1:16)  
  9 Laurel Mt. Breakdown (4:00)  
  10 Cecil.s guitarist (talk) (1:03)  
  11 Rattler (2:32)  
  12 Cecil.s dream: to be a fiddler (talk) (1:02)  
  13 Trumpy's Hoedown (4:06)  
  14 Cecil and Fiddle Contests (talk) (1:17)  
  15 Sugar Tree Stomp (3:49)  
  16 Cecil's family (talk) (1:29)  
  17 Red Apple Rag (3:33)  
  18 About writing Fiddle Tunes (talk) (1:02)  
  19 Unknown (1:03)  
  20 Six White Horses (twin fiddles) (1:45)  
  Bonus Material: tracks 21-34; Lonnie Seymour, Fiddle Tracks 21-27; Jeff Goehring, guitar, tracks 28-34; Tony Ellis, banjo
  21 Indian Creek (1:32)  
  22 Haste to the Wedding (1:40)  
  23 Ross County Farmer Theme (Lonnie's composition) (1:36)  
  24 Lonnie's Dad Whistling Tune (1:19)  
  25 Birdie (0:49)  
  26 Sugar Barrel (1:41)  
  27 Unknown (1:13)  
  28 Red Wing (1:34)  
  29 Want to see my Mama (2:08)  
  30 White Horse Breakdown (2:06)  
  31 Turkey in the Straw (2:01)  
  32 Dance all Night with a Bottle in your Hand (1:20)  
  33 Betty Sue Waltz (1:48)  
  34 Waco (1:58)  
 

 

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