Wrong State

Gilmore Lee is a fiddler from Roseau, Minnesota (the very northern part of the state) and his influences were from both Canadian and Scandinavian sources, although he loves the Texas swing contest style as well. However, he isn't a Missouri fiddler. The recording was done at a jam held by the Minnesota State Fiddlers Association in Minnetonka, Minnesota, 2012. I did the recording because Gilmore mentioned that he'd gone to a contest in South Dakota the previous year, heard this waltz played there, and thought we should learn it. This waltz is also played by Beth Hoven Rotto of The Foot-Notes, Decorah, Iowa, who learned it from Bill Sherburne, Spring Grove, MN. She says that his waltz was similar to a 1953 recording, so she thinks that this may be a more modern composition rather than traditional fiddle tune. Mary Pat Kleven, Minnesota State Fiddlers Association