Hi All! Here’s another preview of a tune from Armadillo on a Hot Tin Roof. This is Justin and I playing Who’s Gonna Talk to Dinah from when we played impromptu in the National Twin Fiddle Championships in 2016. We had the pleasure of being accompanied by the amazing Matthew Hartz on Guitar. If you […]
Ashokan Farewell – National Twin Fiddle Contest 2016
HEY EVERYBODY! The Armadillo is out of the bag!! Free shipping offer is now extended to April 7th! Get them while they’re hot!! Our new album “Armadillo on a Hot Tin Roof” is out on April 1st! Here’s a preview from when we played Ashokan Farewell at the National Old-time Fiddler’s Contest 2016 – Twin […]
[my] Talent Forge, a Year in Review
Hey Everybody, Many of you know that a little over a year ago, Matthew Hartz and I set out to create an online music school. We started talking about it in October 2012 (as I was wrapping up my fiddle tune a day project), and by the second week of January this year, we were […]
Crafton Blues – Featuring Matthew Hartz
Crafton Blues is what I would call a country blues tune. It mostly fits the blues chord structure, but it’s not what most people would consider bluesy. Crafton Blues is a popular fiddle contest tune of choice. Here Matthew plays a Texas-Style fiddling arrangement of it that he is improvising on the spot. Because he […]
House of the Rising Sun – with Matthew Hartz
You don’t hear House of the Rising Sun on Fiddle very often, but I’ve never been held to those kind of conventions. 🙂 If you would like to learn to play fiddle tunes like this one, and… If you are looking to study with national caliber musicians like Matthew Hartz and Vi Wickam […]
Leather Britches – Featuring Matthew Hartz
Leather Britches is a great old breakdown, and one of the classic breakdowns in the key of G. I hope you enjoy this video of Matthew Hartz playing the heck out of it. If you would like to learn to play fiddle tunes like this one, and… If you are looking to study […]
Shortnin’ Bread – with Matthew Hartz
Shortnin’ Bread is an old time breakdown that was popularized in the Texas Fiddling Tradition by Orville Burns, one of my favorite breakdown fiddlers. It really has that bump, like an angry rooster strutting around a barnyard! If you would like to learn to play fiddle tunes like this one, and… If you […]
Soppin’ the Gravy – Featuring Matthew Hartz
Soppin’ the Gravy is a popular old-time fiddle breakdown. Here Matthew plays a Texas-Style fiddling arrangement of it that he is improvising on the spot. Because he is improvising around the melody, rather than just around the chords, this type of improvised fiddling is often called controlled improvisation. If you would like to […]
Secret Agent Man – with Matthew Hartz
It is great when I get to have a great musician in town to make some music with, and it’s even better when that musician is also working on a project with me. This is the first in a series of 6 videos that Matthew and I made together to announce the launch of our […]