The Edge Of AmericanaFiddlers, Fiddling, and Fiddles in Honor of Kenny Baker and Benton Flippen

Kenny Baker (June 26, 1926 – July 8, 2011);      Benton Flippen (July 18, 1920 – June 28, 2011)

Tonight it's all fiddlers.  Bluegrass (Josh) and Old Time (Otto) in honor of Kenny Baker and Benton Flippen who both recently passed.  Too many to name, just check the playlist.

JB & OK

Artist / Song Title / Album / Comments

Kenny Baker / Bluegrass In The Backwoods / Frost On The Pumpkin / County
Benton Flippen and Smokey Valley Boys / Backstep Cindy / An Evening at WPAQ, 1984 / 5-String
Arthur Smith and Earl Scruggs / Smith’s Rag / Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith and Earl Scruggs: 1957 Jam Session / None
Walter Jacobs and Lonnie Carter / The Jazz Fiddler / Folks, He Sure Do Pull Some Bow! / Old Hat
Reno & Smiley / Lee Highway Blues / Strictly Instrumental / Rural Rhythm
Alabama Sheiks / Travelin’ Railroad Man / Violin, Sing The Blues For Me: African-American Fiddlers, 1926 – 1949 / Old Hat

Hazel and Alice / Walking In My Sleep / Live at Newport Folk Fest / Vanguard
Geoff Muldaur / Yellow Dog Blues / The Texas Sheiks / Tradition & Moderne
Bobby Hicks / Scotland / Texas Crapshooter / Rebel
Kirk Sutphin and Riley Baugus / Birdie / Long-Time Piedmont Pals / Self

Bill Monroe / Wheel Hoss / Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys live recordings 1956-1969 / Folkways
Clark Kessinger / Red Bird / Classic Old-Time Fiddle / Smithsonian Folkways
Kentucky Colonels / Eighth of January / 1965 Live in LA / Rural Rhythm
Tommy Jarrell and Kyle Creed / June Apple / June Apple / Heritage

Old & in the Way / I’m on My Way Back to the Old Home / 1973 That High Lonesome Sound / Acoustic Disc
Harold Hausenfluck / Hop High Ladies / Volume 1: The Fiddling Collection / Field Recorders’ Collective
Lonesome Pine Fiddlers / Lost In this World / Hit Parade of Bluegrass Stars / Starday
Bob Paisley and the Southern Grass / Bill Cheatham / Forty Years of Trouble “Live” / Rural Rhythm
Benny Thomasson / Tom And Jerry / Legendary Texas Fiddler: Recordings From 1966-1969 / County

Jason and Pharis Romero and Friends / Walk Chalk Chicken with a Necktie On / Back Up and Push / Self
The Dillards w/ Byron Berline / Paddy On The Turnpike / Pickin’ And Fiddlin’ / Warner
Charlie Walden / Tune In C / Traditional Fiddle Music of Missouri / Self
David Via And Corn Tornado / Left This Country Boy / It All Comes Down To A Song / Little King
James Crase / Fiddler a Dram / Mountain Music of Kentucky / Yazoo

Buddy Pendleton / Red Haired Boy / Delivers! / VFH
Sid Hemphill / John Henry / Deep River of Song: Black Appalachia / Rounder
Bill Monroe / Heavy Traffic / Music of Bill Monroe from 1936 to 1994 / MCA
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys / That Hot Lick Fiddlin’ Man / Bob Wills Box Set / Collector’s Choice
Alison Krauss / Too Late To Cry / Too Late To Cry / Rounder
Chance McCoy and The Appalachian String Band / Waynesboro / Chance McCoy And The Appalachian String Band / Self

Bill Monroe featuring Kenny Baker / Jerusalem Ridge / Music of Bill Monroe from 1936 to 1994 / MCA
Benton Flippen and Smokey Valley Boys / Sittin’ on Top of the World / An Evening at WPAQ, 1984 / 5-String
Benny Martin & Buddy Spicher / Sweet Bunch of Daisies / Fiddlers Hall of Fame / CMH
Caleb Finch / Johnson Boys / Classic Old-Time Fiddle / Smithsonian Folkways
The Bluegrass Album Band / Brown County Breakdown (Vol 6) / Songs Of Bill Monroe (From Vols. 1-6) / Rounder

Fiddlin’ Van Kidwell / Big Sandy River / Fiddlin’ Van Kidwell / Field Recorders’ Collective