"Angeline the Baker"
Channel: Richard Dress
Date: 2013-04-14

This project was recorded January 2008 by Don Roland, Triangle VA and edited and mastered by Richard Dress.

Musicians:

Fiddle -- Frank Vispo lives in Camp Springs, Maryland.  He was born and spent the early days of his youth in the truck farming area of southern New Jersey . After high school he spent four years in the U.S. Navy crusing around the deep blue sea .  He atarted to learn old time fiddle tunes and contracted 'fiddle feaver' in 1976 after a friend took him to the Galax Old Time Fiddlers Convention .  Frank has been learning old timey fiddle tunes on and off ever since .

Rhythm Guitar -- Richard Dress lives in Vienna, Virginia.  He started playing guitar in 1962, learning chords and picking styles from the Appendix  of Alan Lomax's 'Folk Songs of North America'.  Although he has played in a number of bluegrass bands, he still loves to zone out while playing rhythm guitar with Frank's old-time fiddle.    He has been a fixture in the DC area bluegrass scene since 1967.

Drop-Thumb 5-String Banjo -- Pete Moury lives in Glen Burnie, Maryland.   Born and raised in Rhode Island (of all places), picked up his first banjo in Germany in 1974 when he was there with the Air Force.  A guy from Tennessee also stationed with him in the hills of Bavaria showed him a couple of things and he has been trying to play it ever since.  Pete is a respected open-back banjo player in the DC area old-time community.