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Ron - I coulda done that. Seriously, very impressive. I won't toss out anymore offhand queries about fiddle tunes. Yes I will - how 'bout Ida Red?

Nice work, Ron. And Cotton Eyed Joe is almost identical to the old Scottish pipe and fiddle tune, Mrs. MacLeod of Raasay. Lots of cattle-driving Scots went to Texas, and maybe some had their fiddles. None of 'em were line-dancers though.

We're a pretty hardcore Country band. We play play old country , shuffles, waltzes and weatern swing. We have a large following of fans that follow us from job to job ( 100's of miles. We don't play line dances or rock-n-roll. We do play Cotton-eyed-joe and Schottesh. Its a tradional step dance not a line dance.

Come on Guys. Most of us have line danced
(in the military, but it was called "Close Order Drill.)

I did a stint with a line dance band playing the provincial New England circuit. I felt like I got some good musical experience from it. The band was good and had a great singer. After a while I had to get back to NYC to preserve whats left of my sanity.

BTW, the line dancers where a real freak show !
At the time I described them as the crowd doing its best to disprove Darwin.

Bob

Line dancing... ah. The thrills of following the herd, the joy of having something to do with yourself that doesn't involve thinking or listening, the ability to dance while lacking any semblance of rhythm or musical sensibility.

Seems like people who are dancing in pairs are actually feeling something... people who are line dancing ARE actually doing close-order drill. Somebody once told me that in Texas, people dance to show you they like what you are doing... I assume that meant two-step or waltzing, as opposed to line dance stuff.

Here in the city itself, you really see not that much dancing at country events... some, but it's sort of chaotic and wild, there's just not that much room, and somehow there just ain't that much dancing at musical events that I've been to over the years.

Nicholas, you are right on. People in Texas love to two step. Boys learn at a very young age how to get a girl on the dance floor. This really is a dancing state. If you want to fill the floor here, play a shuffle or a fast waltz. I love it.