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mralston - Posted - 10/23/2011: 06:54:59
I was curious about Dykes and his group and found this image of notes from the back of an LP from Old Homestead Records on the web. Anyone else have any info on Dykes and the Magic City Trio ?
FiddleJammer - Posted - 10/23/2011: 07:55:20
One of my personal favorites. :-)
Featured in the Old Time Herald Feb - April 1988.
Back issues here oldtimeherald.org/subscribe+ba...ndex.html
mralston - Posted - 10/23/2011: 08:04:21
Hi Terri - thanks for the lead. OTH lists that issue (vol. 1 # 3) on their back-pages and I ordered it.
Mark R.
robinja - Posted - 10/23/2011: 08:38:15
I was told that Dykes used GDAD tuning on a lot of the recordings. I'm not great at identifying tunings, but there does seem to be a "ring" on some the tunes I've heard.
bubbaschnell - Posted - 10/23/2011: 19:48:53
John Dykes was tuned GDAD for Cotton-Eyed Joe and Hook and Line. Two of the others are in AEAE, the remainder in standard tuning. I've always been a big fan of the Magic City Trio. Hub Mahaffey, for my money, is one of the best guitarists to record in old time music. An added treat on that LP is that the last two vocal tunes on the album feature Dock Boggs (Dykes' brother-in-law) on vocals. Dykes was from Kingsport, TN and in 1988 (at the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes) Ralph Blizard told me that Dykes was his role model. "Everything I know about fiddling, I learned from John Dykes." High praise, indeed.
FiddleJammer - Posted - 10/24/2011: 07:20:44
John Dyke's Tennessee Girls and Red Steer on a Field Recorders' Collective Jeff Goehring disc... fieldrecorder.com/docs/store_p...k_601.htm
Interesting conglomeration on Red Steer. From the Fiddler's Companion database...
RED STEER. AKA and see "Brown's Dream [1],” “John Brown’s Dream." Old-Time, Breakdown. GDgd tuning. From the playing of fiddler John Dykes, of the Kingsport, Tennessee, area, leader of the Dykes Magic City trio. The tune as a member of the “John Brown’s Dream” family of tunes. Richard Blaustein sees similarities in the ‘A’ part with Dykes’s “Callahan Reel” and a tune called “Boatman”; and in the ‘B’ part with “Paddy Won’t You Drink Some Good Old Cider.” Old Homestead OHCS 191, "Dykes Magic City Trio" (Eastern Tenn.) {originally recorded on a Brunswick 78, 1927}.
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The honkingduck link is not good, but I'll leave it in as the complete quote from the Fiddler's Companion site just for reference.
Edited by - FiddleJammer on 10/24/2011 07:22:43
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