Description
Vernon Spencer ran an old Skelly gas station between Topeka and Lawrence in the tiny town of Big Springs, Kansas. It was here that you could fill up your tank and get some basic essentials, or Vernon would get his fiddle off of the wall and have a tune or two. The Spencer family moved from LaRue County, Kentucky to Douglas County, Kansas in 1857 and have been there ever since. The Spencers have been making music in the county for at least five generations and these recordings, made at home and at fiddle contests, are a window into one family making music together in rural Kansas in the 1960s and ’70s. – Howard Rains
Detailed Track Notes for Vernon Spencer CD by Tricia Spencer
Additional Notes: Vernon Spencer & the Spencer Family of Big Springs, KS by Tricia Spencer
Track List
Vernon Spencer of Big Springs, Kansas – FRC726
- Intro (by Wilbur Foss) (0:32)
- Spotted Pony (Vernon) (1:45)
- Stony Point (1:05)
- Please Papa, Don’t Whip Little Danny (2:35)
- Uncle Joe (1:04)
- Wednesday Night Waltz (2:53)
- Hooker’s Hornpipe (1:42)
- Joys of Quebec (1:05)
- Banjo Signal (2:00)
- Canary Waltz (2:02)
- Brilliancy (2:20)
- Big Springs (1:04)
- Twinkle Little Star (1:08)
- Red Fox Waltz (1:20)
- Salty River Reel (1:48)
- A & E Waltz (2:06)
- The Old Bulldog (1:28)
- Coming Down from Denver (1:37)
- Fat Meat & Dumplings (1:08)
- White Rose Waltz (2:31)
- Marmaduke’s Hornpipe (1:30)
- Tipperary (1:41)
- The Old Man and The Old Woman (1:05)
- Acorn Hill Breakdown (1:32)
- Clark’s Waltz (2:24)
- Stone’s Rag (1:59)
- Sail Away Ladies (0:57)
- Sailor’s Hornpipe (1:28)
- Golden Slippers (2:56)
- Swedish Waltz (2:29)
- Oklahoma Redbird (1:17)
- Vern’s Waltz in E (2:07)
- Up Jumped the Devil (1:46)
- Woodchopper’s Breakdown (1:11)
- Steel Guitar Chimes (2:14)
- The Jones Waltz (2:31)
- Durham’s Bull (Vernon) (1:25)
- Durham’s Bull (Tricia) (1:00)
- Spotted Pony (Tricia) (1:24)
