About Howdy Forrester
Howdy Forrester (born Howard Wilson Forrester on 31 March 1922; died 1 August 1987) was an American bluegrass fiddler and a popularizer and practiser of the "Texas" or "show fiddle" style. In addition to solo recordings, he was a long-time member of Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys and recorded albums as Kenny Baker & Howdy Forrester and as Howdy Forrester & John Hartford. Forrester was born in Vernon, Tennessee, into a family of many fiddlers; his father, grandfather and uncle played the fiddle.
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Dugler with a Shoefly On
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Forrester: Wild Fiddler's Rag (Arr. Hadelich for Solo Violin)
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McKinley
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Home Made Sugar and a Puncheon Floor
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Arthur Smith's Twinkle Little Star
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I've Never Heard Anybody Play It but Arthur
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You Did a Whoop
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Stump Tail Dog
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Uncle John Wills's Lost Indian
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Tumbling Creek Liza Jane
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Tell You Where I First Heard That One
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Still on the Hill (Sells Brothers Circus Rag) [feat. John Hartford]
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Benny Didn't Get into That Part
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Ladies in the Ballroom
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Cotton Eyed Joe
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Sugar in the Gourd
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Going Across the Sea
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That's More Like a Scotland Tune
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Paddy on the Turnpike
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Secesh
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Polly Put the Kettle On
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Balance All
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Going Uptown
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Lady of the Lake
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Roy Talked About Grandpappy George Wilkerson
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Trott Along
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Possum up a Gum Stump
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Bitter Creek
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Still on the Hill
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The Memory Waltz
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Even Back in Those Days
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Grey Eagle
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The Weeping Heart
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Town And Country Fiddler
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Grandmammy Look At Uncle Sam
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Pretty Polly Ann
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Howdy In Hickman County
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Apple Blossom Polka
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Memory Waltz
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The Last Waltz
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Cathy With The Raven Black Eyes
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Doc Harris Hornpipe
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Wild Fiddler's Rag
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Wild Fiddler`s Rag
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Cluckin` Hen
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Trot Along
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Strictly Forrester
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High Level Hornpipe
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Gray Eagle Hornpipe
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Rutland's Reel
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