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.