Aunt Mary's Hornpipe (MSOTFA 124), by Nolan & Frances Boone

Aunt Mary's Hornpipe (MSOTFA 124)

by Nolan & Frances Boone

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1.	Westphalia Waltz 03:11	buy track
2.	Wagner 02:28	buy track
3.	Aunt Mary's Hornpipe 01:39	buy track
4.	Kelly Schottische 02:11	buy track
5.	Angus Campbell 01:47	buy track
6.	Soldier's Joy 02:06	buy track
7.	Boil the Cabbage Down 01:36	buy track
8.	Too Young To Marry 02:12	buy track
9.	Katy Hill 01:57	buy track
10.	Chancellor's Waltz 02:16	buy track
11.	Chancellor's Waltz (piano solo) 02:03	buy track
12.	Durang's Hornpipe 01:17	buy track
13.	Aunt Mary's Hornpipe (Take #2) 01:27	buy track
14.	Tune 01:45	buy track
15.	Dance Around Molly 02:02	buy track
16.	Grey Eagle 01:59	buy track
17.	Whistlin' Rufus 01:54	buy track
18.	Twinkle Little Star 02:19	buy track
19.	Fiddler's Waltz 02:38	buy track
20.	Chicken Reel 01:33	buy track
21.	Devil's Dream 01:46	buy track
22.	Mississippi Sawyer 02:15	buy track
23.	Flop-Eared Mule 01:26	buy track
24.	Granny Will Your Dog Bite? 01:58	buy track
25.	Miller's Reel 02:06	buy track
26.	Austin Waltz 02:54	buy track
27.	Festival Waltz 03:48	buy track
28.	Coming Down From Denver 01:45	buy track
29.	Angus Campbell (Take 2) 02:05	buy track
30.	Old Soldier 00:59	buy track
31.	Boil The Cabbage Down 01:29	buy track
32.	Swingy Boil The Cabbage Down 00:45	buy track
33.	Ragtime Annie 02:00	buy track
34.	Green Valley Waltz 02:28	buy track
35.	Jesse Polka 01:58	buy track
36.	Stay All Night 01:48	buy track
37.	Sugar in the Gourd 01:19	buy track
38.	Tune in A 00:50	buy track
39.	Clark's Waltz 02:30	buy track
40.	Rickett's Hornpipe 01:18	buy track
41.	St. Anne's Reel 00:12	buy track

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This important recording represents some of the best playing in the Little Dixie style of Missouri fiddling as played by one of its leading exponents, Nolan Boone of Mexico in Audrain County. Nolan was a fixture in his community throughout his life as both an in-demand dance musician and as the grounds manager for the local school district.

While no interview material is available of Nolan, we can piece together aspects of his life from local newspaper clippings. Nolan Boone was born in 1908 and his wife Frances in 1907. He was an active musician for well over 60 years, playing in a variety of ensembles, and later with his wife Frances Ward on piano, as a duet. He played in and won many local fiddlers contests.

Frances was a skilled pianist as these recordings illustrate. We are fortunate to have one solo piano track, which is track number 11 on this recording. Nolan and Frances were married in November of 1947.

in addition to playing the fiddle Nolan worked for many years for the local school district as the grounds manager. He ultimately retired from this position.

Nolan's music is typical of mid-Missouri / Little Dixie in both style and repertoire. Some of the "big tunes" are here like Grey Eagle, Dance Around Molly, Coming Down From Denver and Wagner. There are many tunes here which can be found in Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes, which leads one to wonder if he could read music or perhaps he learned tunes from the book as played on the piano by Frances.

He also had a nice touch on his waltzes with just enough vibrato to keep it sweet. He can handle himself nicely on Pete McMahan's Clark's Waltz. He plays Kenny Baker's Festival Waltz, too, which many other of the old fiddlers in Mid-Missouri also played. One seeming outlier is Chancelor's waltz, which comes from Shorty Chancellor of Texas. It turns out that Shorty had met another Mid-Mo fiddler, Cleo Persinger, at the contest in Weiser, ID, in the early 1960s. He even visited Cleo at least once and left a stack of his 45 RPM records behind, which were quickly passed around the area. I'd make a guess that one of these 45s is the source of this tune for Nolan.

Nolan passed away in 1992 and Frances in 1996.

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released February 17, 2017

Digitized in 2017 by Charlie Walden for MSOTFA
Original recording from a cassette recorded by Al Cooley of Hannibal in the early 1970s.

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