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October 23, 2012

Limerock – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 291

I think that I first learned Limerock off of a transcription of Byron Berline playing it, but I probably don’t play it very true to those notes any more.

Really, that’s one of the things I like about fiddling. I don’t have to play these tunes the way I originally learned them. Heck, I don’t even have to play them the way I played them yesterday or five minutes ago.

Smile, this is playing, not working. 🙂

 

Limerock according to Fiddler’s Companion

LIME ROCK. AKA – “Limestone Rag.” Texas Style, Breakdown. A Major (‘A’ part), D Major (‘B’ part) & E Major (‘C’ part). Standard tuning. AABAACCAABB (Brody): AA’BAA’CC’AA’ (Phillips): AA’BB’CCAA’BB’ (Silberberg). The composer of the tune is reputedly Texas fiddler Bryant Houston, though some credit Lum Sellers, or Milton or Matt Brown (the latter was a medicine show operator). Texas fiddler Norman Solomon said that “Limerock” was composed by Cap Houston, Bryant Houston’s father, but that Bryant further developed the tune and the variations. Charles Wolfe finds the earliest recording of the tune to be by Smith’s Garage Fiddle Band, whose leader was fiddler Samuel Morgan Peacock from Johnson County, Texas (who lived most of his life in Cleburne, near Dallas). Peacock was another fiddling barber and died after collapsing on the sidewalk in front of his barber shop in 1932. The band recorded it for Vocalion in March, 1929. Although it is not known what inspired the title, there is a Lime Rock Mountain in Stephens County, Texas. It may be that mountains called “Lime Rock,” like mountains called ‘Sugar Loaf”, are derived from visual similarity to processed substances—sugar formerly was dispensed by loaf before the advent of the granulated manufacturing process, while rock lime (also called ‘roach lime’, from the French roche meaning rock or stone) is lime just taken from the kiln, burnt, before being slaked and while still in the form of stones (P.W. Joyce). Sources for notated versions: Byron Berline [Brody, Phillips]; Glenn Berry [Silberberg]. Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; pg. 169. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; pg. 77. Silberberg (93 Fiddle Tunes I Didn’t Learn at the Tractor Tavern), 2004; pg. 26 (appears as “Limestone Rag”). Rounder 0100, Byron Berline‑ “Dad’s Favorites.” Rounder 0099, Dan Crary‑ “Lady’s Fancy.” American Heritage 516, Jana Greif‑ “I Love Fiddlin.'” American Heritage 24, Lonnie Peerce‑ “Golden Fiddle Tones.” American Heritage 1, Herman Johnson‑ “Champion Fiddlin.'”

Article by Vi Wickam / Fiddle Tune a Day, Fiddling, Videos / Byron Berline, fiddle tune, limerock, manufacturing process, Rag, texas style 5 Comments

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Comments

  1. Howard Lee Harkness says

    May 26, 2014 at 7:51 pm

    The link to the prior video (day #290) was bad. Not obvious how to work around the bad URL to find the video.

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  2. Michael Friedman says

    September 30, 2014 at 1:54 pm

    Lovely musical performance !

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  3. Vi Wickam says

    November 1, 2014 at 5:56 pm

    Thanks, Michael.

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  4. Vi Wickam says

    November 1, 2014 at 5:56 pm

    Thanks, Howard. We got this fixed, so it won't be an issue in the future. I appreciate you noticing.

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  5. Raymond Blacklock says

    March 22, 2020 at 10:23 am

    I heard a story by Texas Shorty that Bryant Houston had some part in this tune

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