Midnight on the Waters - Luke Thomasson | Performed by The Trailside Troubadours

Midnight on the Waters - The Trailside Troubadours Musicians: Merryl Winstein - Fiddle Larry Mitchell - Mandolin Jim McClincy - Guitar Steve Shirk - Bass Uncle George Gould - Guitar Frank Cardisco - Mandolin / Harmonica Kristen Lindstrom - Mandolin Dan Bashore - Guitar Song info: "This popular composition is usually credited to Texas fiddler Luke Thomasson, although it has been published that Luke's son Benny (a famous Texas-style fiddler who popularized the melody) long remembered the night he heard both his father and uncle composing the tune on the family porch (c. 1900?). Several sources have noted this tune's resemblance to an Oklahoma-collected tune called "Old Paint," and there is an ongoing debate about whether "Midnight" is derivative of "Paint" (or vice versa). The Library of Congress recording "Cowboy Songs, Ballads, and Cattle Calls from Texas" (LOC lp L28), collected by John A. Lomax and edited by Duncan Emrich, has a version of the "Paint" song by Jess Morris which has quite similar melodic material with "Midnight on the Water." The liner notes to the album point out that Morris was born in 1878 and would perhaps have been contemporary with the Thomassons, who, like Morris, lived in the Texas panhandle." Early Benny Thomasson video recording:    • "Midnight on the Water"  -   Benny Thomasson   (via: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:...) Filmed at The Buffalo Valley Rail Trail - Vicksburg, Pennsylvania Video recorded using an iPhone 13 Pro Max Audio recorded to one iPhone XS Max using a Sennheiser Ambeo headset Video Recorded and edited by Mike & Juvy