The Midwest’s premier fiddler – Chirps Smith presents twenty-six tunes that evoke memories of front-porch music-making on the Illinois prairie and dances held in cabins in the hollers of Little Egypt, all played in a style he calls simply, and modestly, “Midwestern.”
Vigortone 2002
Tracks
- Amish Town
- Old Missouri
- Ten Cents
- Charlie Wyler’s Tune
- D & G Polka
- Chase the Banshee
- Lost Indian
- Old Red
- Fishin’ Limber
- Grotts
- Elie’s Waltz
- Down in Little Egypt
- Joke on the Puppy
- Rolling the Logs
- Bowling Green
- White’s Polka
- Polish Tune (Kujawiak)
- Hop-Scotch Polka
- Tippin’ Back the Corn
- Mr. Fisher’s Old German Waltz
- Illinois Cotillion
- New Year’s a-Comin’
- Idlewood
- Benton
- California Waltz
- Old Plantation