Rob Tate

Rob Tate: a distant, and younger, relative of Dan Tate, lived further up the mountain from Dan.  Rob preferred to play songs and tunes from the l920s and ‘30s, such as Wildwood Flower, More Pretty Girls Than One and The Lawson Family Murder.  However, my first visit prompted him to think about the clawhammer tunes that his father had played and at our second session he remembered a dozen or so ‘old ones’, including Sally Ann, Old Molly Hare, Baby-O, Fortune, and Old Corn Liquor.

Part of the booklet notes, written by Mike Yates, to the Musical Traditions Records CDs Far in the Mountains (MTCD321-4)