Stephen Baldwin - Revision history

JohnnyAdams: Updated link to Mustrad article

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	Mustrad article - [https://~~www.~~mustrad.~~org~~.uk/articles/baldwin.htm]		Mustrad article - [https://mustrad.mainlynorfolk.info/articles/baldwin.htm]

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	Discography		Discography

	English Village Fiddler ‎(LP) Leader (2) LED 2068 1976		* English Village Fiddler ‎(LP) Leader (2) LED 2068 1976

	Here's One You'll Like, I Think - Traditional Fiddle Music from the Forest of Dean - Stephen Baldwin (1873-1955) -		* Here's One You'll Like, I Think - Traditional Fiddle Music from the Forest of Dean - Stephen Baldwin (1873-1955) - Musical Traditions Records MTCD334 (CD, UK, 2005) - ''This CD and accompanying article are now available as a digital download from'' [http://mustrad.org.uk/download/covers.htm?fbclid=IwAR3OEaWaV-15j-sOc52Nri0fWX6FXE7iHX6VzuI8abOkTOinvSLRJPUDjVU Mustrad]
	Musical Traditions Records MTCD334 (CD, UK, 2005) - This CD and accompanying article are now available as a digital download from [http://mustrad.org.uk/download/covers.htm?fbclid=IwAR3OEaWaV-15j-sOc52Nri0fWX6FXE7iHX6VzuI8abOkTOinvSLRJPUDjVU Mustrad]

	Various Artists, Rosin the Bow: An Introduction to the World of Fiddle Music, LP, Transatlantic XTRA 1171, 1977		* Various Artists, Rosin the Bow: An Introduction to the World of Fiddle Music, LP, Transatlantic XTRA 1171, 1977

	Rig-a-jig-jig (Topic TSCD659) Various Artists, Rig-a-jig-jig (The Voice of the People Vol. 9), CD, Topic TSCD659, 1998		* Rig-a-jig-jig (Topic TSCD659) Various Artists, Rig-a-jig-jig (The Voice of the People Vol. 9), CD, Topic TSCD659, 1998

	As Me and My Love Sat Courting (Topic TSCD665) ~~Various Artists, As Me and My Love Sat Courting~~ (The Voice of the People Vol. 15), CD, Topic TSCD665, 1998		* As Me and My Love Sat Courting (Topic TSCD665) (The Voice of the People Vol. 15), CD, Topic TSCD665, 1998

	You Lazy Lot of Bone-Shakers (Topic TSCD666) ~~Various Artists, You Lazy Lot of Bone-Shakers~~ (The Voice of the People Vol. 16), CD, Topic TSCD666, 1998		* You Lazy Lot of Bone-Shakers (Topic TSCD666) (The Voice of the People Vol. 16), CD, Topic TSCD666, 1998

Chris Partington: add link to Mustrad

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	Here's One You'll Like, I Think - Traditional Fiddle Music from the Forest of Dean - Stephen Baldwin (1873-1955) -		Here's One You'll Like, I Think - Traditional Fiddle Music from the Forest of Dean - Stephen Baldwin (1873-1955) -
	Musical Traditions Records MTCD334 (CD, UK, 2005)		Musical Traditions Records MTCD334 (CD, UK, 2005) - This CD and accompanying article are now available as a digital download from [http://mustrad.org.uk/download/covers.htm?fbclid=IwAR3OEaWaV-15j-sOc52Nri0fWX6FXE7iHX6VzuI8abOkTOinvSLRJPUDjVU Mustrad]

	Various Artists, Rosin the Bow: An Introduction to the World of Fiddle Music, LP, Transatlantic XTRA 1171, 1977		Various Artists, Rosin the Bow: An Introduction to the World of Fiddle Music, LP, Transatlantic XTRA 1171, 1977

Chris Partington at 14:40, 14 February 2022

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	Mustrad article - [https://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/baldwin.htm]		Mustrad article - [https://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/baldwin.htm]


			Discography

			English Village Fiddler ‎(LP) Leader (2) LED 2068 1976

			Here's One You'll Like, I Think - Traditional Fiddle Music from the Forest of Dean - Stephen Baldwin (1873-1955) -
			Musical Traditions Records MTCD334 (CD, UK, 2005)

			Various Artists, Rosin the Bow: An Introduction to the World of Fiddle Music, LP, Transatlantic XTRA 1171, 1977

			Rig-a-jig-jig (Topic TSCD659) Various Artists, Rig-a-jig-jig (The Voice of the People Vol. 9), CD, Topic TSCD659, 1998

			As Me and My Love Sat Courting (Topic TSCD665) Various Artists, As Me and My Love Sat Courting (The Voice of the People Vol. 15), CD, Topic TSCD665, 1998

			You Lazy Lot of Bone-Shakers (Topic TSCD666) Various Artists, You Lazy Lot of Bone-Shakers (The Voice of the People Vol. 16), CD, Topic TSCD666, 1998


	Back to [[English Traditional Players]]		Back to [[English Traditional Players]]



	[[Category:Musician]]		[[Category:Musician]]

Chris Partington: add link to Mustrad

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	''Part of the booklet notes, written by Philip Heath-Coleman, to the Musical Traditions Records CD of Stephen Baldwin (MTCD334)''		''Part of the booklet notes, written by Philip Heath-Coleman, to the Musical Traditions Records CD of Stephen Baldwin (MTCD334)''


			Mustrad article - [https://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/baldwin.htm]


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JohnnyAdams at 17:58, 6 June 2008

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JohnnyAdams at 13:14, 21 February 2008

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	''Part of the booklet notes, written by Philip Heath-Coleman, to the Musical Traditions Records CD of Stephen Baldwin (MTCD334)''		''Part of the booklet notes, written by Philip Heath-Coleman, to the Musical Traditions Records CD of Stephen Baldwin (MTCD334)''

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RodStradling at 15:43, 26 March 2007

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	Part of the booklet notes, written by Philip Heath-Coleman, to the Musical Traditions Records CD of Stephen Baldwin (MTCD334)		''Part of the booklet notes, written by Philip Heath-Coleman, to the Musical Traditions Records CD of Stephen Baldwin (MTCD334)''

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	Stephen Baldwin died at home in Upton Bishop on 24 November 1955, having been afflicted with heart problems for some while.		Stephen Baldwin died at home in Upton Bishop on 24 November 1955, having been afflicted with heart problems for some while.


			Part of the booklet notes, written by Philip Heath-Coleman, to the Musical Traditions Records CD of Stephen Baldwin (MTCD334)

RodStradling at 12:35, 24 March 2007

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	~~Complete booklet notes to the CD,~~ '''Stephen Baldwin: ''~~"Here~~'~~s one you'll like~~, ~~I think"'''''~~ (~~MTCD334~~)  ~~[http://www.mtrecords.co.uk/articles/baldwin~~.~~htm]~~		'''Stephen James ('Stevie') Baldwin:''' was born in Hereford in 1873.  Before he was born his family had moved between Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, pausing at Ross-on-Wye (Herefordshire) and Dymock (Gloucestershire).  But after Stephen’s birth his parents took the family back to Newent in Gloucestershire where his father Charles (‘Charlie’) Baldwin, his mother Eliza (née Bowry or Bowrie), and his eldest brother and sister had been born.

	~~This includes: Track Lists~~; ~~an Introduction~~ and ~~mini~~-~~biography~~ of Stephen Baldwin ~~by Philip~~ Heath-~~Coleman~~; ~~sections on~~ the ~~Dancing~~; the ~~Music~~; and ~~Notes~~ on the ~~Tunes~~.		Stephen was the youngest of eight children.  His eldest brother, David, was in his early 20s when Stephen was born, and Stephen would have grown up with the youngest of his brothers and sisters.  The family lived in Culver Street in Newent - the southward continuation of the High Street - which was home to several other families of Baldwins and Bowrys, as well as the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel where his mother had been christened in 1835.

			Stephen Baldwin worked as a plate-layer on the Great Western Railway for all of his working life.  During the First World War he served in France with the 13th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment, the 'Glosters', and was invalided out after the Battle of the Somme.  He was twice married, and had four sons and two daughters.

			Stephen Baldwin inherited his father’s fiddle, which Charles Baldwin had bought at a music shop in Hereford, and he in turn passed it on to his own son Charles, who played it until he was forced to give up when rheumatism stiffened the first finger of his left hand.

			Stephen’s son Charlie would also accompany his father in pubs vamping on the piano, and his second wife Grace also played the piano, and would accompany him when he played the fiddle in the evenings - to discourage him from playing in the pub, it is said, though perhaps maliciously - as many a traditional fiddler also enjoyed playing at home if there was a pianist in the family to play along with.  As well as playing the fiddle and singing popular songs, he was also involved in a local carol singing party.

			Stephen Baldwin became involved with a border morris tradition that when, at Christmas one harsh winter in about 1897, Thomas Bishop, the 'King' of the morris at Bromsberrow Heath, fetched him over from Newent to stand in for the regular musician, concertina player Bill Rudds, who was ill.  Stephen was so taken with the dance that he taught it to a side he himself raised at Mitcheldean, where he was living at the time.

			By far the most significant - and sophisticated - element in Stephen Baldwin’s repertoire is undoubtedly his stock of hornpipes.  In England, the hornpipe seems to have filled the niche which came to be enjoyed by the reel in Ireland. Its popularity was obviously tied up with its intrinsic association with step dancing, and hornpipes form the liveliest part of the repertoire of many a traditional musician in southern England.  It is, therefore, not by chance that Stephen Baldwin's skill should be most apparent in his playing of hornpipes, which are undoubtedly the most complex and exciting part of his repertoire.  The pre-eminence of the hornpipe in Stephen Baldwin's repertoire, for both the fiddler and his audience, is illustrated by the description which he gave to the local collector and antiquarian H H Albino, of a Gypsy wedding he was invited to provide the music for.  Arriving at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, he stayed until 2 o’clock in the morning, perched on a tree stump and playing, in his own words, “nothing but hornpipes”, to which the Gypsies danced “with great vigour”.  “The sweat simply rolled off them.  They never seemed to get tired”.

			Stephen Baldwin died at home in Upton Bishop on 24 November 1955, having been afflicted with heart problems for some while.