Music CDs Mountain Dulcimer Tab Instruction CDs
The family began playing together in 1994. Margaret had a degree in music but it was new to Jerry and the boys. Hollis was 15 and Lloyd was 12. It was started with the mountain dulcimer which was purchased from Lynn McSpadden in Mountain View, Arkansas. Since then, the pickin' stick, bass, guitar, Autoharp, bones, bodhran, banjo and mandolin have been added.
RECORDINGS
The Family Album by the Wright Family along with Bill Thurman and Ken Ryan. A collection of some old tunes on a CD produced in 2000.
East Texas Jam produced by Margaret Wright. This CD was recorded in a sound studio in July 2001. Some friends got together and jammed. It a great CD for listening or jamming along with.
One Hot Week was recorded by Steve Seifert in 1998 in the Wright's log house in Kennard, Texas. It features Lloyd Wright, James Butcher, Hollis Wright, Christina Ryan and Benjamin Hester. They were all teenagers at the time. Margaret joins in on one song.
Masters of the Wooden Nickel is a tribute to a place where folks gathered and played music. During the years it was in operation many fine musicians passed through and shared their music. Not only does the CD feature the local folks but it also features Debbie Porter, Neal and Coleen Walters and Don Pedi.
Northfield by Lloyd Frank Wright. This CD is all Lloyd. He plays all of the instruments to produce a string band sound. A project of this nature can only be produced in the studio.
From Mountain View to Mountain Dew by Bill Thurman and Lloyd Wright. Fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar, Autoharp and mountain dulcimer music.
The Old Country Church by the Wright Family, Steve Heiser, Calvin and Polly Williams, Gordon White, Ken Ryan, Charles Whitmer and Don Pedi. 20 gospel and Shaped Note songs.
Duets by Steve Seifert and Lloyd Wright. Two mountain dulcimers doing what Steve and Lloyd do best.
Crossing the Line by Frank Miller, Lloyd Wright and Margaret Wright. Traditional tunes - new sounds and new tunes with traditional sounds.
The Family Album
| Happy Land | Bonaparte Crossing the Alps | Storms are on the Ocean |
| Handsome Molly | Ragtime Annie | Squirrel Heads in Gravy |
| Rosin the Bow | Liza Jane, She Died on the Train | Gum Tree Canoe |
| Mississippi Sawyer | Sourwood Mountain | Yellow Rose of Texas |
| Old Joe Clark/June Apple/Clinch Mountain Backstep | Sail Away Ladies | John Stinson's No. 2 |
| Seneca Square Dance | Wildflowers | Fisher's Hornpipe |
| Cucharan's Cross | Cluck Old Hen |
East Texas Jam
| Green Corn | Liza Jane She Died on the Train | Handsome Molly |
| Leaning On the Everlasting Arms | Shove That Pig's Foot a Little Farther In The Fire | Flop Eared Mule |
| Squirrel Heads in Gravy | Soldier's Joy | Whiskey Before Breakfast |
| John Stinson's #2 | June Apple | Old Joe Clark |
| Sandy Boys | Bill Cheatham | Rosin The Bow |
| Camptown Races | Arkansas Traveler | Boneparte Crossing the Alps |
| Black Mountain Rag | Wildwood Flower | Seneca Square Dance |
Northfield
| Soilder's Joy | Old Aunt Jenny with Her Nightcap On | Pretty Polly |
| Staten Island Hornpipe | Northfield | Dixie |
| Round the Horn | Kedron | Bunch of Rushes |
| Seeds | Sandy Boys | Red Rocking Chair |
| Spotted Pony | Gal I Left Behind | Cluck Old Hen |
| Rose of Alabama |
Masters of the Wooden Nickel
| Bile the Cabbage/June Apple/Old Joe Clark | Rivers of Texas | Unclouded Day |
| Old Needle Case | Four Nights Drunk | Susanna Gal |
| Blow Ye the Trumpet | Dear Little Stranger | When the Roll is Called |
| Dixie | John Brown's March | Spotted Pony |
| Silver Dagger | Rock the Cradle Joe | The Blackest Crow |
| Minstrel Boy | Shepherd's Wife Waltz | Will the Circle Be Unbroken |
| Down the River | Amazing Grace | I Bid You Goodnight |
From Mountain View To Mountain Dew
| Mountain View Ramble | Hell Creek | Rock The Cradle Joe/Rickett's Hornpipe |
| Ook Pik Waltz | Forked Deer/Fisher's Hornpipe | Barlow Knife/Sandy River Belle/Ole Billy Hell |
| Morpeth Rant/Mouth of the Tobique | Billy in the Lowground | The Ash Grove |
| Ole Man Thurman | Kitchen Gal | Tennessee Waltz |
| Gotta Travel On | Ways of the World | Mountain Dew |
One Hot Week
| Blind Mary | Over the Waterfall | Ruben’s Train |
| Sandy river Belle | Red Haired Boy | Stegan’s Waltz |
| Gold Watch and Chain | He Will Listen to You | Crooked Ridge |
| Norwegian Wood | Fisher’s Hornpipe | Shee Beg Shee Mor |
| Down Yonder | Southwind | Whiskey Before Breakfast |
| Rosin the Bow |
The Old Country Church
| Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing | Angel Band | Leaning on the Everlasting Arms |
| Boylston | Brethren We Have met to Worship | The Old Country Church |
| What a Friend We Have in Jesus | Pull for the Shore | Hold to God's Unchanging Hand |
| Sweet Hour of Prayer | Little Moses | Jesus is Mine |
| We Shall All Be Reunited | Light at the River | By the Side of the Road |
| Sweet By and By | Deep Settled Peace | Troublesome Waters |
| He Hideth My Soul | Where the Sun Will Never Go Down |
Duets Steve Seifert and Lloyd Wright
| Soldier's Joy | Coleman's March | Nonesuch |
| Bile Them Cabbage Down | Bull of the Wagon | Rock the Cradle Joe |
| Old Joe Clark | Mississippi Sawyer | John Stinson's |
| Seneca Square Dance | Borsch Before Breakfast | Yellow Rose of Texas |
| Shepherd's Wife Waltz | Cherokee Shuffle |
Crossing the Line Frank Miller, Lloyd Wright and Margaret Wright
| Shenandoah Falls | The Dying Ranger | Waltz for Susan |
| Across the Great Divide | Benton's Dream | Father Adieu |
| The Cape | Josefin's Waltz | Kesh Jig/Drowsy Maggie |
| Minstrel Boy | Whiskey Before Breakfast | Sailing to Philadelphia |
| Trouble in the Mind |
TABLATURE AND CDs
In 1997, Gary Hamilton suggested that Margaret tab out 12 simple songs for the newly formed Davy Crockett Dulcimer Society. That Twelve Tune Song Book starts with Bile Them Cabbage and includes eleven more easy to learn tunes. It was suggested that the new players learn the tunes in that book before going any further.
Then Margaret started writing more tabs. The tablature for the mountain dulcimer became very popular and now she is up to her seventh Twelve Tune Song Book. The new feature to the book series is a companion CD. The tunes in the books are included on the CD. There is a CD for each book.
Actually they aren't books at all. They are single sheets. Then after you get them you can bind them in any manner or order you wish.
The Twelve Tune Songbook Series
| The Twelve Tune Song Book Bile Them Cabbage, Old Joe Clark, Gray Cat, Shortnin' Bread, Lady Mary, Liza Jane, Cotton Eyed Joe, Camptown Races, Soldier's Joy, Black Mountain Rag, Oh, Susanna, Wildwood Flower |
| The 2nd Twelve Tune Song Book Amazing Grace, Columbus Stockade Blues, Cripple Creek, Happy Land, Hard Times Come Again No More, I'll Fly Away, Rivers of Texas, Rosewood Casket, Rosin the Bow, Southwind, Whiskey Before Breakfast, Will the Circle Be Unbroken |
| The 3rd Twelve Tune Song Book Boneparte Crossing the Alps, Cucharan's Cross, Deep Settled Peace, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, Little Liza Jane, Redwing, Seneca Square Dance, Shepherd's Wife Waltz, Storms are on the Ocean, Sweet Hour of Prayer, Tennessee Waltz, Yellow Rose of Texas |
| The 4th Twelve Tune Song Book Angel Band, Arkansas Traveler, Ash Grove, By the Side of Road, Clinch Mountain Backstep, Nacogdoches Waltz, Green Corn, John Brown's March, Old Needle Case, Old 1812, Rueben's Train, Squirrel Heads in Gravy |
| The 5th Twelve Tune Song Book Are You Washed in the Blood? Charlie Barnet Low's Tune, Gold Watch and Chain, Handsome Molly, Johnson Boys, June Apple, Old Ground Hog, Ragtime Annie, Rock the Cradle, Joe, Rosetree, What a Day That Will Be, Where the Soul of Man Never Dies |
| The 6th Twelve Tune Song Book Banks of the Ohio, Come Ye Sinners Poor and Needy, Fisher's Hornpipe, Flop Eared Mule, I Bid You Goodnight, John Stinson's #2, Precious Memories, Sandy River Belle, Saint Ann's Reel, Shove the Pigs Foot a Little Farther in the Fire, We hall All be Reunited, Willow Tree |
| The 7th Twelve Tune Song Book Awake Harp and Lyre, Big Scioty, Bill Cheatham, Coleman's March, Cold Frosty Morn, Dixie Darlin', Gum Tree Canoe, Rose of Alabama, Sandy Boys, Kitty Wells, Child Grove, Jamie Allen |
| The 8th Twelve Tune Song Book Black Hills Waltz, Dry and Dusty, Hangman's Reel, Julianne Johnson, Midnight on the Water, Mississippi Sawyer, Shady Grove, Shall We Gather at the River, Spotted Pony, Staten Island Hornpipe, Turkey in the Straw, Westphalia Waltz. |
| The 9th Twelve Tune Song Book Bury Me Beneath the Willow, Campmeetin' on the 4th of July, Did You Ever See the Devil Uncle Joe, General Lee, Granny Will Your Dog Bite, Hog Eye Man, Kitchen Girl, Margaret's Waltz, Old Liza Jane, Old Virginia, Sally Goodin, Life's Railway to Heaven |
| The 10th Twelve Tune Song Book Angelina Baker, Angelina Baker (low version), Barlow Knife, Barlow Knife (harmony), Brethren We Have Met to Worship, Brethren We Have Met to Worship (harmony), Come Thou Fount, Crockett's Honeymoon, Ducks on a Millpond, Forked Deer (all the notes), Forked Deer (some of the notes), Goin' Down to Cairo, Old Style Liza Jane, Rattler Treed a Possum, Susanna Gal (also known as Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss), Susanna Gal (low version), Tombigbee Waltz, |
| The 11th Twelve Tune Song Book Bonnie Blue Flag, Bull at the Wagon, Cat on a Leash, Chattanooga, Cluck Old Hen, Jawbone, Magpie, Shady Grove, Shoo Fly, Snake River Reel, Tater Patch, Troublesome Waters. |
| The 12th Twelve Tune Song Book Blackberry Blossom, Cherokee Shuffle, The Glendy Burk, Little Billy Wilson, Old Molly Hare, The Old Yeller Dog went Trottin Through the Meetinghouse, Roscoe, Say Darlin Say, Spring Creek Gal, Stomped Tail Dog, Sugar Hill, Tempie |
| The 13th Twelve Tune Song Book Eighth of January (D), Black Mountain Rag (A), Breaking Up Christmas (A), Chickens Crowing at Midnight (D), Fire on the Mountain (G), Harrison Town (D), New Five Cents (D), Sail Away Ladies (D), Sarah Armstrong's Tune (D), Single Footin' Horse (D), Sourwood Mountain (D), Step Around Johnny (D) and Yellow Rose of Texas (D) |
The Way More Than Twelve Tune Christmas Book
The tab book for the mountain dulcimer contains more than 34 Christmas tabs. Several have one or more harmonies.
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To place an order
Margaret Wright
P.O. Box 46
Kennard, TX 75847
(936) 655-2945
pickinwright@yahoo.com As of 11/22/2006 this is our new email address.
East Texas Jam It features Gary Hamilton, June McAdams, Georgia Shell, Lloyd Shell, Ken Ryan, Kathy Davis, Bill Thurman, Lloyd Wright, Hollis Wright, Jerry Wright and Margaret Wright. It was recorded in July 2001 by Karl Caillouet in Houston. Karl turned on the recording equipment and the players did what they do best - JAM! The CD was created for the folks who don't have the opportunity to jam on a regular basis. It will get you familiar with the tunes and the feeling of a jam session. They are played in the key of D, G and A. The instruments: mountain dulcimer, pickin stick, mandolin, guitar, banjo, Autoharp and fiddle.
... what folks have said.
The Family Album Richard and I listened to the CD all the way home that night and just loved it. It will be great to play along with...20 of your favorite songs, mostly from Tune Books that Margaret has written. SO IT'S ALL SONGS YOU KNOW AND CAN PLAY ALONG WITH. Rich played his harmonica with the CD as we cruised up 59 and I was imagining you all having a great Jammin CD. About half of tunes have vocals... great old timey vocals, but even on those tracks lots of time for instrumental work is presented. Gum Tree Canoe captures Jerry and Margaret's live performances of this great tune. A highlight to me was Cluck Old Hen. I never realized what a beautiful haunting tune this was. Margaret sings this in an almost bluesy but truly haunting voice with Lloyd playing GREAT banjo. Ken Ryan holds it all together on bass and Bill Thurman provides beautiful fiddle work. The whole Wright Family shines throughout! Good recording quality, great selection of songs, good set arrangement...we just let it play over and over as we headed home. The recording is consistently good all the way through, but there are a couple of BIG winners. 1st, the humble pickin stick. This may be the premiere recording for pickin sticks and Jerry burns it up. His solo in Mississippi Sawyer is MEMORABLE. Next, but not least...Mr. Hollis Wright is wonderful. When we have 30 dulcimers in a jam and Hollis playing, it's hard to hear sometimes the wonderful work that he does. This CD really showcases his talent. Happy Land is angelic. There are several other great spots showcasing Hollis, so I know you will enjoy that. This is a CD I would definitely recommend for Autoharp lovers and players. Debbie Porter
Northfield Just wanted to let you know from way up here in central New York that I was at the 25th annual Great American Dulcimer Convention at Pine Mountain State Resort Park in Pineville, KY this past weekend and I was privileged to see and hear Lloyd on stage. He is amazing! I bought his new CD and listened to it several times through on the trip home. It is a wonderful album and I highly recommend it to anyone who has any interest at all in this kind of music. Best of luck to you, Lloyd. I know that you will go far in the music world. John Piston E. Syracuse, NY
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