"At Manny's Place", by Erskine Morris

"At Manny's Place"

by Erskine Morris

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1.	The Brandy 01:07		buy track
2.	The Rocky Road to Dublin 00:42		buy track
3.	Grandmother's Reel 01:37		buy track
4.	Grandmother's Reel (Take 2) 02:00		buy track
5.	The Donna Reel 01:55	info	buy track
6.	Lover's Farewell (Frank Miller's Hornpipe) 02:35	info	buy track
7.	"This is an old tune I used to play years ago" 01:58		buy track
8.	Reel de Johnny Bell (Reel de la jolie veuve) 02:19	info	buy track
9.	The President's Reel 02:15		buy track
10.	The Devil's Dream (A Different Way) 01:26		buy track
11.	Fat Molasses 04:23		buy track
12.	La Polka Piquée 00:54	info	buy track
13.	Marche de Guy Leduc (The Montreal Reel) 00:47	info	buy track
14.	La Polka Piquée 01:55	info	buy track
15.	Rue de Laurier Lodge (Reel de l'horloge) 02:58	info	buy track
16.	McNabb's Hornpipe (fiddle solo) 01:32		buy track
17.	McNabb's Hornpipe (with guitar) 01:25	info	buy track
18.	The Queen's Reel 03:06	info	buy track
19.	Mrs. Oliver Morris' Tune 03:16	info	buy track
20.	Belle Kathleen 03:03	info	buy track
21.	The Spruce Knot 02:29		buy track
22.	Isidore Soucy Tune 02:40		buy track
23.	The Devil's Dream (with guitar) 01:32		buy track
24.	The Devil's Dream "with the fiddle alone" (fiddle solo) 01:51		buy track

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This circa 1970s album was made by Erskine and his brother Manny Morris during one of Erskine's visits home to Douglastown. Home recordings of Erskine's music like this one were on regular rotation for Manny and his wife Phyllis, whether on the kitchen stereo while the couple were waiting for their morning coffee to brew or on the road in their car. We thank Phyllis for loaning us this tape several years back. Thanks to Paul Fackler for help with some of the tune titles and commercial sources.

You'll hear a mixture of rare local tunes Erskine learned from older fiddlers (and lilters) in Douglastown, Gaspé during his youth in the 1920s and 30s; as well as his interpretations of almost forgotten tunes Isidore Soucy's early commercial recordings. There are three different yet captivating settings of the fiddle standard "The Devils' Dream" played throughout the tape.

We are not aware of who is providing the guitar accompaniment on some of these performances.

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released December 10, 2021

Erskine Morris - Fiddle, feet
Unknown - Guitar

Manny and Erskine Morris - Recording
Brian Morris - Digitization
Glenn Patterson - Archiving, Research
Paul Fackler - Research

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Sounds from the Coast: The Erskine Morris Home Recordings Archive Montreal, Québec

Erskine Morris (1913-1997) was a fiddler from Douglastown in Quebec's Gaspé region. At 10, he began playing fiddle, learning from his mother's (Beatrice Fortin) lilting. He learned an extensive local repertoire from two brothers and elderly neighbours, Joe and Charlie Drody. Following the Second World War, he relocated to the Montreal area. In the late 1970s, he retired to Cambridge, Ontario. ... more

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