Pyrelli Vitamin A CD - Import

Steve Rosen's Nail That Catfish to the Tree is a collection of 16 instrumental pieces featuring banjo, fiddle, guitar, mandolin, and on a few pieces...piano. Steve plays all the instruments. The title tune is known and played in jam sessions coast to coast and was composed by Steve. The rest of the material is traditional except for number 16 which is called Rhapsody in Red which also was written by Steve and is a modal banjo solo.

Steve played for many years with the mighty Volo Bogtrotters and recently with a group called The Combine. He is highly respected in the old-timey world and has toured extensively.

Acie Cargill's Stones in Shoes is a collection of instrumentals (with Acie's powerful fiddle calls) from his family in Kentucky. He is the featured performer but various family members also appear, including his son Leo, cousins Robert E Lee Tyler and Tiny Tyler and various uncles and cousins from Kentucky. These tunes are the authentic backwoods string band sound and all of them are played in the original modal versions. His family lived near Shady Grove (an hour by horseback) and Acie claims that this version is the absolute original version of that well-travelled tune. Eddyville Prison was sung by Native Americans imprisoned there and The Battle of Shiloh is based on a civil war ballad. The Cherry Tree is from an old family ballad and some of the tunes were played as children's games, such as Old Molly Hare, Cindy, Ginny Git Around, and Annie's In The Sycamore Tree.

Lively adult dance tunes include Morton's Gap, Sally Godwin, Courtin Betsy Brown, and Black-Eyed Susie. Hark Ye, The Best Is Yet To Come is one of the tunes played by the Tyler family.