Very nice! Thanks for sharing.

Good fiddle breaks on that album I still recall after so many hours of listening to it. Who played them, Paul Warren or Benny Martin?

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Originally posted by Saltcured

Good fiddle breaks on that album I still recall after so many hours of listening to it. Who played them, Paul Warren or Benny Martin?

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Forgot to mention I'm grateful to whichever one of them, or whoever it was came up with my favorite fiddle break on the album, the one for Ground Speed. Full of licks that work just about anywhere 

The fiddle break on "Groundspeed" (and probably the rest of that album) was played by Paul Warren (January, 1959). If you're curious about things like this, I recommend Praguefrank's wonderful online country music discography, by far the most detailed available.

Thanks Doug, I'll look at it. You know you gotta admire those early fiddle players having to come up with their own breaks for Earl's - and
Don Reno's for that matter - banjer tunes.

Yes, I wanted to mention that too, but forgot. Three finger banjo tunes are just not melodic like fiddle tunes. I really admire Benny Sims for coming up with something for "Foggy Mountain Breakdown."
I had a little bit similar situation in the years I played fiddle with Lee Sexton, especially on his two finger style numbers. What I didn't realize was that some of those were his versions of Arthur Smith tunes I just wasn't familiar with. If I'd just been a little more conscientious (and a lot better fiddler) I could have gone back to the source for fiddle ideas. As it was I sometimes just played rhythm mandolin.

Do I understand it correctly, that this thread somehow ended last year without other tunes from the FMB album except Sally Goodwin showing up?
What I was hoping for, and still am, is a transcription of Warren' s break to Farewell Blues, especially of the double stops at it's beginning.
So, does somebody have any suggestions for me?

You could message the fella who posted in the first place. He's been active here in the past couple months or so.