TEASER TRACK: Sally Johnson performed by Johnny Gimble & Ricky Turpin

TEASER TRACK from our upcoming album release, Traditional Music of Texas, Volume 1: Fiddle Recordings from the Texas Folklife Archive. Pre-Order on Square: http://mkt.com/texas-folklife/preorder-texas-fiddle-vol More info about the album: http://texasfolklife.org/catalog/tmtvol1 Texas Folklife is proud to announce the release of Traditional Music of Texas, Volume 1: Fiddle Recordings from the Texas Folklife Archives, available in CD format on December 5, 2014. This compilation album of digitized archival audio recordings represents the rich variety of fiddle traditions found across the state of Texas. The album release is in celebration of the first inaugural Festival of Texas Fiddling at Twin Sisters Dance Hall in Blanco, TX on Saturday December 6, 2014, presented by Texas Folklife and Texas Dance Hall Preservation, Inc. Traditional Music of Texas, Volume 1: Fiddle Recordings from the Texas Folklife Archives contains digitized archival audio cassette recordings of past Texas Folklife programs dating from the 1990's, including live recordings of fiddle workshops, field recordings from Texas Folklife's apprenticeship program in the folk & traditional arts, and recordings from live concert events produced by Texas Folklife. Artists and styles featured on the album include legendary Texas fiddler Johnny Gimble, Texas breakdowns and contest style fiddling by Ricky Turpin and Valerie Ryals, Polish style fiddling by Brian Marshall, Texas-Mexican fiddle music of Rio Grande Valley by Jose Moreno, and down home Texas style fiddling by Bill Gilbert and Mike Henderson. Audio cassette recordings of Texas fiddle music were selected from Texas Folklife's archives and digitized with the assistance of University of Texas at Austin School of Information archivists. This album aims to be the first in a series of albums compiled from digitized Texas Folklife archival recordings highlighting Texas regional Texas music traditions.

Added 7 Jun 2026