Artist: Skillet Lickers
Author: traditional
Label: Columbia
Year: 1926
With Gid Tanner and Riley Puckett, already holding the line Give the fiddler a dram. In 1924 and also for Columbia Tanner & Puckett cut a mainly instrumental version as Alabama Gal, Give The Fiddler A Dram.
Covers:
Carter Brothers & Sam [as Give The Fiddler A Dram]
Lead Belly [as Fiddler A Dram (Smithsonian Folkways); a version with Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston was released in '62; the L.o.C. holds a version on him cut in '35 as Gwine Dig A Hole To Put The Devil In]
Holy Modal Rounders [idem]
New Lost City Ramblers [as Dance All Night and as Give The Fiddler A Dram]
Byrds [as Fiddler A Dram (Moog experiment), outtake of the Ballad Of Easy Rider sessions]
Chieftains [finale Down The Old Plank Road as Give The Fiddler A Dram, with The Del McCoury Band, Ricky Skaggs, Béla Fleck, John Hiatt...]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)