Featured Tunes Music Library

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Featured Tunes Music Library
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Featured Tunes Music Library



Elk River Blues

Played by: Jatek Zenekar
Source: Soundcloud
Image: Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997)



Rickett's Hornpipe

Played by: Kevin Roth
Source: Soundcloud
Image: Rickett's Circus, Philadelphia, on the corner of Market and 12th St.



Fisher's Hornpipe

Played by: Bruno Bruzzese
Source: Soundcloud
Image: Portrait of J.C.Fischer (1733-1800) painted by Thomas Gainsborough, 1780 (Royal Collection).



Marmaduke's Hornpipe

Played by: Virgil Ed Sellers
Source: Soundcloud
Image: General John Sappington Marmaduke (1833-1887).

Missouri oral tradition gives that the tune was named for Confederate general John Sappington Marmaduke (1833-1887), son of pre-conflict Missouri governor M.M. Marmaduke, who was "from a dynasty of Little Dixie tobacco and hemp farmers, slave holders, and politicians.



The Great Eastern Reel

Played by: Patti Kusturok and Julie Fitzgerald
Source: Youtube
Image: Great Eastern at Hearts Content, July 1866.