Udgivelsen fra 2011 udgives nu også digitalt
– Udgivelsen markerer også Dwight Lambs (1934-2024) fødselsdag den 16 maj.
Den fysiske CD fra 2011 kan fortsat erhverves på www.folkshop.dk
Tracks:
- Quadrille no 1
- Two part waltz
- Dwight Lamb polka / polka 1
- Tomorrow I shall wed, but who shall it be
- Isle of Fyn / Fyns polka
- Quadrille no 3 (fra Tyskland uddrog..)
- Three part waltz / the first waltz
- Schottish 1 / Uncle Pat’s
- Storm
- The crested hen / den toppede høne
- Quadrille no 2
- Mor, jeg skal tisse
- Mette’s favorite polka / Polka 2
- Four part waltz
- Schottish 2
- Polka 3
- Schottish 3 / Madvig
- Oh Susanna
- Galop
All titles traditional, arranged by the musicians. The titles that Dwight remembers, but many of the tunes do not have other names than ”Grandpa’s Waltz” or so,
See also the Dwight Lamb tunebook available at our www.folkshop.dk
Musicians:
Dwight Lamb: one-rowed accordion
Mette Kathrine Jensen: five-rowed accordion
Kristian Bugge: fiddle
Guests:
Vagn Dahl Hansen: piano (tracks 3, 7, 10, 13, 14, 15, 17)
Karl Skaarup: five-rowed accordion (tracks 6, 18)
This CD was recorded live at the concerts in Denmark in May 2010.
Hagge’s Musik Pub, Tønder (tracks 1, 5, 8, 11, 12, 16),
Teaterbygningen, Køge (tracks 3, 7, 10, 13, 14, 15, 17),
Jazzhus Dexter, Odense (tracks 2, 4, 9, 19)
by Torben Sminge, www.torbensminge.dk
Hørdum Gl. Skole, Thy (tracks 6, 18) by Christian Hansen at Reel-Motion
Mix: Torben Sminge & Kristian Bugge
Mastering: Torben Sminge
Cover: Gorm K. Bentsen, www.gobe.dk
Photo: Ard Jongsma, www.stillwords.com
Historien bag om musikken og venskabet mellem Dwight Lamb, Kristian Bugge og Mette Katrhine Jensen Stærk skal også i den anledning genfortælles
The story behind the music and friendship between Dwight Lamb, Kristian Bugge and Mette Kathrine Jensen Stærk:
Mette Kathrine was visiting Millstream Records – the Tønder Folk Festival’s record store, and Anni, Millstream’s manager, had a surprise for her. Coming from the speakers were familiar notes, but no familiar tunes. “Is it Thy music?”, she asked listening to the old diatonic accordion. “No, but you’re close”, answered Anni. “It’s from Vendsyssel”. Mette was puzzled. She knew of no one from that part of Denmark, who played like that. That might be because, Anni said, the accordion player, Dwight Lamb, was a native of the state of Iowa in the United States. His grandfather had immigrated to the U.S. in the late 1800’s, and his great-grandfather was known as Kræn Jerup. Now that was a name that rang a bell! At the folk music department at the music academy in Odense Mette had learned a tune called Kræn Jerups Hamburger. A tune which over a period of more than a hundred years had been passed on from Dwight’s great-grandfather to Kræn Degn, to Evald Thomsen, to Hans Jørgen Christensen, to Sonnich Lydom and finally to Mette and Kristian.
Mette told the story to her friend Vagn Dahl Hansen. Vagn promptly googled Dwight Lamb, found his mailing address, made contact and soon after received a videotape from Dwight with some of his music on it. Simultaneously a radioprogramme and several articles in the folk music magazine Folk&Music spread the good tidings to folk music enthusiasts all over Denmark.
In 2008 Mette and Kristian received an invitation to play at the Nisswa-Stämman Scandinavian Folk Music Festival in Minnesota. Emails were exchanged with the director of the festival, and in one of them they asked the director if he knew Dwight Lamb. “Of course”, he replied, “he is one of our best old-time fiddlers”. That was a surprise to them, and they told the director that he was also an accordion player playing traditional Danish music. “Would you like me to invite him to the festival?” asked the director. Would they like … wouldn’t they just!
On a warm June day at the Nisswa-Stämman Festival Kristian and Mette met Dwight for the first time. They found a nice spot on the festivalsite, listened to Dwight’s tunes, talked, had a whisky or two and got to know each other. And before they parted Mette promised that she and Vagn would be back later in the year. And so in October 2008 Vagn and Mette flew into Salt Lake City, Utah. Like so many Danes Vagn has family in the U.S., so having first visited his 93 year old aunt Betty, they made their way from Utah to Iowa in two days. Mette had never seen the wide open heartland and prairie of the U.S., and it was a thrill. Were there still places that looked like the towns of the old western movies? she wondered, as they reached the prairieland of the Midwest. Then they arrived in Onawa, Iowa, a small country town on the outskirts of an Indian reservation through which the Missouri River flows, and & Onawa had what an old western town should have: a marshall and saloons with swing doors. They played music with Dwight, learned more tunes and had a great time. And Dwight’s friends were surprised to hear him play tunes, they had never heard before. Dwight just smiled and said that the more Danish tunes he played the more seemed to come back to his memory.
In June 2009 Kristian and Mette were back in the USA playing at a folk festival in northern Minnesota. When planning the tour they had made sure there was time to visit Dwight in Iowa. They stayed for several days and played a concert with him in South Dakota where his friend Bill Peterson lives. When it was time to leave they promised Dwight and Bill that if they would come over they would arrange a tour for them in Denmark.
And then in May 2010 Dwight and Bill arrived at Aalborg in Denmark. From the airport they went straight to the village of Skørping south of Aalborg to meet Mette and Kristian who were working there as instructors at the annual folk music and – dance seminar.
Later on they set out to visit Vendsyssel, the northernmost province of Denmark and the native soil of Dwight’s Danish ancestors. Part of the way they were joined by a local historian, who had looked into the history of the Jerup family.
Reed and listen more of the Chris Jerup story here at gofolk.dk
