Jump River Polka
Steve has mastered the diatonic button accordion, an older, less versitile
instrument spurned by his father's generation of polka musicians favor of
the modern piano accordion. This original tune by Steve, named after a scenic
river in northwestern Wisconsin, showcases the vibrato-tinged sound of the
"wet-tuned button box". Performed by The Steve Meisner Band with
Steve Meisner (button accordion, bass, and piano), Verne Maisner (accordion),
Larry Sokolowski (saxophone), Don Hunjadi (clarinet), Rick Hartmann (drums),
Carl Hartmann (banjo).
(Smithsonian Folkways Recordings album #40088 1998)
|