Dwight Lamb plays fiddle on a bench in front of a train caboose.

Dwight Lamb

Onawa, Iowa

Dwight Lamb plays “left-handed style” on a fiddle strung in the standard way. Mark Wilson photo.

Bill Gray’s Dubuque

Players: Dwight Lamb & Nate Kemperman, fiddles; David Cavins, guitar.

Dwight Lamb teaches Nate Kemperman an unusual version of a common Midwestern tune, Dubuque.  Dwight learned this version from the playing of his father, Clarence Lamb, but he mentions that it’s Bill Gray’s version–Bill Gray, a contemporary of Dwight’s father, was a well-known fiddler in the Loess Hills near Dwight’s boyhood home. Recorded at Dwight’s house in Onawa, Iowa, October 18, 2014.

Chris Jerup’s Polka in G and D

Players: Dwight Lamb, fiddle; Nate Kemperman, fiddle; Amber Gaddy, pump organ; David Cavins, tenor banjo

This tune comes from Dwight’s Grandpa Jerup. He played this on fiddle; he never learned it on the buttonbox because his button box was in the wrong keys. From the album “80,” Missouri Valley Music, 2015.

Clark’s Waltz

Players: Dwight Lamb, fiddle; Elvin Campbell, guitar

Iowa State Folklorist David Brose recorded this tune while visiting with Dwight Lamb and Elvin Campbell in 1988.

Comin’ Down From Denver

Players: Dwight Lamb, fiddle; Elvin Campbell, guitar

From the LP “Old-Time Fiddlin’ Left-Handed Style” (1970).

Dagmar

Players: Dwight Lamb, diatonic accordion; Mette Jensen, chromatic accordion; Christian Bugge, fiddle

Dwight Lamb (diatonic accordion), Mette Jensen (chromatic accordion) and Christian Bugge (fiddle) played this polka at a show in the Danish Brotherhood hall in Viborg, SD in June, 2013. Recorded by David Cavins.

Duncan’s Reel

Players: Dwight Lamb, fiddle; Lynn Holsclaw, guitar

From the Rounder CD “Hell Agin the Barn Door” (2005).

Irish Cobbler

Players: Dwight Lamb, fiddle; Lynn Holsclaw, guitar

From the Rounder CD “Hell Agin the Barn Door” (2005).

Jake’s Best Reel

Players: Dwight Lamb, fiddle; Lynn Holsclaw, guitar

From the Rounder CD “Joseph Won a Coated Fiddle” (1999).

Missouri Mud

Players: Dwight Lamb, fiddle; Lynn Holsclaw, guitar

From the Rounder CD “Hell Agin the Barn Door” (2005).

Natchez Under the Hill

Players: Dwight Lamb, fiddle; Elvin Campbell, guitar

From “Old-Time Fiddle Classics,” a re-release of Dwight’s two LPs from the 1970s.