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Can’t Stay Here This A-Way

Bruce Molsky

Album · 2016 · Tiki Parlour Recordings 006

Can’t Stay Here This A-Way was released in May 2016 by the Old-Time Tiki Parlour (Tiki Parlour Recordings 006) as a CD and DVD set. It is a solo record: Bruce Molsky plays fiddle, banjo and guitar and sings on its sixteen tracks, which were recorded at David Bragger’s studio in Los Angeles, with Bragger recording and producing and Richard Hocutt also credited as producer. The DVD shows him playing on the Tiki Parlour’s red couch.

The program opens with “Shelving Rock,” a tune from the West Virginia fiddler John Johnson, and closes with “Solly’s Favorite” coupled with Ed Haley’s “Old Sledge.” Molsky sings “Old Virginia” and “Red Rocking Chair” while playing fiddle. “Come Home” is his adaptation of the Swedish fiddler Kjell-Erik Eriksson’s “Kom Hem,” played on guitar in an open C tuning, “Married Man’s Blues” comes from the early repertoire of the banjo player Wade Ward, and “Bye Bye Little Girl” is a blues song associated with Little Hat Jones. Molsky took up old-time music at Cornell in the early 1970s, and in 1976 he visited the fiddler Tommy Jarrell in North Carolina.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Shelving Rock 2:21
  2. 2 Old Virginia 3:04
  3. 3 Fiddle or a Dram 2:42
  4. 4 Métis Set 5:49
  5. 5 Brothers and Sisters 5:20
  6. 6 Red Rocking Chair alt version 3:16
  7. 7 Tie Your Dog, Sally Gal 3:22
  8. 8 Flying Indian 2:55
  9. 9 Come Home 4:03
  10. 10 Morgan on the Railroad 2:24
  11. 11 Married Man's Blues 3:09
  12. 12 Laughing Boy Set 4:53
  13. 13 Polly Put the Kettle On Source Recording Traditional · key G · 98 bpm 2:47
  14. 14 Bye Bye Little Girl 2:54
  15. 15 We'll Have a Way Hoeing Corn 2:59
  16. 16 Solly's Favorite / Old Sledge 4:30

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