Step Tunes & Doubles

by Rufus Guinchard

Step Tunes & Doubles cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 6 January 1982
  • Label: Pigeon Inlet Productions
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 9:16
  • Community rating: 3.55/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded in 1981 and produced by Kelly Russell, who also plays second fiddle and bouzouki, with Jim Payne on guitar. The program of step tunes and doubles documents the dance repertoire Guinchard had carried since his lumber-camp youth on the Great Northern Peninsula.

Genres

Descriptors: traditional, acoustic, dance, melodic, folk

Tracklist

  1. Double Sledder Lad
  2. We Are A Set Of Jolly Jolly Lads
  3. See How The Farmer Sows His Seed
  4. My Man John
  5. Uncle Manuel Milks The Cow
  6. Skipper Lost His Guernsey
  7. Mary Had A Little Lamb
  8. Leonard Payne's Tune
  9. Sam Sinnicks Tune
  10. Uncle John Peter Payne's Tune
  11. Out Behind The House
  12. Up Southern Shore
  13. Pretty Little Mary
  14. Traveller's Reel
  15. Granny's Waltz (3:14)
  16. Bees And Flowers (2:07)
  17. Parsons Pond Jig
  18. Uncle Harry's Out Of Shape
  19. Jim Rumbolt's Tune (3:55)
  20. Bluebird
  21. Esau Payne's Tune

Credits

  • Rufus Guinchard - primary artist, fiddle, composed by
  • Neil Carter - lacquer cut by
  • Wallace Hammond - edited by
  • Traditional - written-by

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