Larry
Bulaich Wilder and the Stumptown Stars
are here to entertain! Engaging and
fun show to fit your community concert,
school, festival, party, fund-raiser,
cultural symposium, fair, corporate
event, club, pub or wedding. Available
as duo, trio, quartet or more, this
dynamic group plays the finest music
in its genre. Hot bluegrass, cowboy,
folk, roots featuring fancy and harmony
yodeling! The Stumptown Stars of Portland,
OR have won awards with their solid,
tasty and lightning acoustic instrumentals
on guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle and
bass.
Portland,
Oregon's own Stumptown Stars can enrich
your cultural event with workshops: instrument
building; vocal harmony; instrument playing;
yodeling; Americana Music History and
Appreciation. Join the fun, sing along,
and don’t hesitate to make requests
from our playlist of hundreds of songs.
We will “cowboy
up” for solo, duo, or trio shows
that will make your audience want our
trails to cross again and again with three
part cowboy vocals, fancy and harmony
yodeling. The show, while inspired by
the Sons of the Pioneers, Gene Autry,
Bob Wills, Riders in the Sky, Patsy Montana,
and Elton Britt, can embrace other fun
Americana sources. Original tunes are
also included.
Yodelin’ tunes
featured: Chime Bells, Cattle Call, Way
Out There, Hold That Critter Down, How
the Yodel Was Born and many more.
Other songs include:
Cool Water, Texas Plains, The Auctioneer,
Tumblin’ Tumbleweed, Ghost Riders,
El Paso, San Antonio Rose, Pistol Packin’
Mama, and many more…
All shows can be readily
customized to meet your venue/clientele
needs. We always aim to entertain and
please the people.
Tunes from many Americana
sources enliven and diversify, engaging
listeners of all ages. Audience requests
and singing along encouraged as appropriate
to the venue.
Our goal is to work closely
with you to create a truly memorable experience
for your clientele.
Cowboys have been yodeling
out on the range since the early days
of American history. The folk-musicologist
can find roots world music replete with
yodeling from many spots on the globe.
The European-American cowboys brought
their unique round-up techniques and communicative
calling over distances in the West. Yodeling
soon found its way into the music that
was shared around the campfire. Patsy
Montana sold a million copies of her classic
“I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart”
in the depths of the Depression.
This specialty came later
on in my musical evolution. The first
yodeler I saw live was Roy Rogers with
the Sons of the Pioneers. I can still
hear them singing “Texas Plains”
while Roy yodeled. Wow, that got me!
It wasn’t long
‘till I ran across the 1930’s
recordings of Bill Boyd & the Cowboy
Ramblers. I was once again amazed hearing
Bill and Curley Perrin yodel in harmony
on the Bob Nolan tune “Way Out There.”
That lit the spark to try to learn to
yodel on my own. “Cattle Call”
was my second tune.
Patsy Montana has said
that Elton Britt was the greatest combination
singer-yodeler. Unable to find his out
of print records in Los Angeles, I finally
ran across Elton’s recordings in
Tokyo. I must have said “thank you”
incorrectly six times.
I later worked with cattle
on my Uncle Bill’s ranch in Oregon.
One afternoon while getting all the “head”
in, I had a run-in with electric barbed
wire that may have hastened my yodeling
progress.
Ranger Doug with Riders
in the Sky yodels so pretty; he is always
a pleasure to hear. Kerry Christensen,
born in Idaho and now living in Utah is
a fantastic yodeler—well worth a
listen.
Songs
- Partial mixed listing of bluegrass,
cowboy, folk, gospel and yodeling music.
Some
Americana Favorites:
I’ve Been Everywhere (featuring
OR & WA places)
This Land Is Your Land
Country Roads
Goodnight Irene
Gentle On My Mind
Chime Bells (yodeling tour-de-force)
I’m My Own Granpaw
Jambalaya
Waiting for a Train (blue yodel)
Wabash Cannonball
The Auctioneer
Pistol Packin’ Mama
Cattle Call (cowboy yodel)
Ramblin’ Man
Roll On, Columbia
Freight Train
Tennessee Waltz
Thunder Road
Red River Valley
El Paso
Ghost Riders in the Sky
Oh Susanna
Don’t Fence Me In
Down in the Valley
She’ll Be Comin’
Round the Mountain
Old MacDonald’s Farm
Y’all Come!
Rocky Top
“Oh Brother,
Where Art Thou?”
Man of Constant Sorrow
You Are My Sunshine
Goin’ Down to the River
to Pray
Keep On the Sunny Side
Lonesome Valley
Carter Family
Keep On the Sunny Side
No Hiding Place
Wildwood Flower
Old Gospel Ship
Thinking Tonight of My Blue
Eyes
Cryin’ Holy
You Got to Walk That Lonesome
Valley
Jimmy Brown the Newsboy
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Kingston Trio
MTA
Tom Dooley
Sloop John B
Worried Man
Scotch & Soda
Hard Ain’t It Hard
Where Have All the Flowers
Gone?
Hank Williams
Jambalaya
I Saw the Light
Hey Good Lookin’
Your Cheatin’ Heart
So Lonesome I Could Cry
Sons of the Pioneers
Way Out There (harmony yodel)
Tumblin’ Tumbleweeds
Cool Water
Hold That Critter Down (yodel)
Timber Trail
Happy Rovin’ Cowboy
(yodel)
Stanley Brothers
Say You’ll Be Mine
How Mountain Gals Can Love
Long Journey Home
Midnight Train
Paul & Silas
Grateful Dead
Friend of the Devil
Lonesome Road Blues
Rider
More Folk Tunes
Fair and Tender Ladies
Last Thing on My Mind
Paradise
Banks of the Ohio
Midnight Special
Careless Love
Puff the Magic Dragon
Don’t Think Twice
Ride Me Down Easy
Gold Watch & Chain
Gotta Travel On
Amelia Earhart
Jamaica Farewell
Hey Li-lee
Appalachian Tunes
Rabbit in the Log
New River Train
Mountain Dew
Fox on the Run
Rocky Top
Sweet Kentucky Girl
Bluebirds Are Singin’
for Me
Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
Jimmy Brown the Newsboy
Old Home Place
More Cowboy Tunes
When the Bloom is on the Sage
Homeward Trail
Oregon Trails
Don’t Fence Me In
Texas Plains
A Cowboy Song
Red River Valley
Cattle Call
Streets of Laredo
Home on the Range
Pinto Pal
Gene Autry
Back in the Saddle Again
Silver Haired Daddy
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
Flatt & Scruggs
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Ballad of Jed Clampett
Roll in My Sweet Baby’s
Arms
Salty Dog Blues
Rueben’s Train
Little Girl in Tennessee
Cabin in Caroline
Blue Ridge Cabin Home
Preachin’ Prayin’
Singin’
Flint Hill Special
Dim Lights, Thick Smoke
Rough and Rocky
Hot Corn, Cold Corn
Wonder Where You Are Tonight
No Mother or Dad
Home Sweet Home
Your Love is Like a Flower
Johnny Cash
Folsom Prison Blues
Hey Porter
I Got Stripes
I Still Miss Someone
Big River
Daddy Sang Bass
Flesh and Blood
Forty Shades of Green
Bill Monroe
Blue Moon of Kentucky
Raw Hide
In the Pines
Muleskinner Blues
On and On
Rose of Old Kentucky
Uncle Pen
Little Cabin Home on the Hill
Will You Be Lovin’ Another
Man?
On My Way Back to the Old
Home
Kentucky Waltz
Blue Grass Breakdown
Merle Haggard
Lonesome Fugitive
Mama Tried
Silver Wings
Sing Me Back Home
Bob Wills
San Antonio Rose
Faded Love
Roly Poly
Silver Bell
Take Me Back to Tulsa
Gospel and Spiritual
Songs
Life’s Railway to Heaven
Turn the Radio On
Daddy Sang Bass
Old Gospel Ship
Cryin’ Holy Unto the
Lord
Amazing Grace
I’ll Fly Away
Great Gettin’ Up Time
No Hiding Place
Wicked Path of Sin
Healing Waters
This Train is Bound for Glory
Master’s Bouquet
What a Friend
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
Jesus Cowboy (fancy yodel)
Saints Go Marching In
Gordon Lightfoot
Sundown
Alberta Bound
Did She Mention My Name?
Song for a Winter’s
Night
Don Quixote
Second Cup of Coffee
Canadian Railway Trilogy
More Country Tunes
Golden Rocket
Four Walls
Abilene
Blue Eyes Cryin’ in
the Rain
He’ll Have to Go
When My Blue Moon Turns to
Gold
Jealous Heart
Please Release Me
Born to Lose
Kansas City
Waiting for a Train
King of the Road
Have I Told You Lately That
I Love You?
Walkin’ the Floor Over
You
Waltz Across Texas
Instrumentals-Fiddle
Tunes
Orange Blossom Special
Old Joe Clark
Salt Creek
Soldier’s Joy
Angeline the Baker
Golden Slippers
Redwing
Black Mountain Rag
Arkansas Traveler
Boil the Cabbage Down
Banjo Tunes
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Duelin’ Banjo
Train 45
Stumptown Twist
Banjo Rock-n-Roll
Home Sweet Home
Cripple Creek
Banjo in the Hollow
Turkey Knob
Irish Tunes
Walk In the Irish Rain
The Cuckoo
Mason’s Apron
Devil’s Dream
Danny Boy
Larry
Bulaich Wilder - Banjo, Guitar, Lead/Harmony
Vocals, Yodeler
5 string banjo and guitar,
arranger, lead and harmony vocals.
Duo with son Nolan. Larry Bulaich
Wilder grew up and began playing
music in Burbank, California.
Inspirations: Flatt & Scruggs,
Johnny Cash, Carter Family, Kingston
Trio, Bill Monroe, Woody Guthrie,
Hazel Dickens, Gene Autry, Sons
of the Pioneers, many gospel groups.
Opened for and shared stages
with Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt,
Oak Ridge Boys, Doc Watson, John
Hartford, Alison Krauss, Riders
in the Sky, Rose Maddox, Ralph
Stanley, Ricky Skaggs, Tiny Tim,
Bill Monroe, Trisha Yearwood,
Pete Seeger.
1975-78: worked with Stuart
Duncan in Pain In The Grass and
Gold Rush, the latter group including
Alison Brown [later of Alison
Krauss’s band]. Stuart’s
fiddle is heard in “Cold
Mountain” and “Oh
Brother, Where Art Thou?”
Knott’s Berry Farm’s
“Western Troubadour”
(1976-1981). Leader of Americana
musical revue for Knott’s
Japan Tour (1980). Larry’s
biggest thrill at Knott’s
was spending time with Earl Scruggs
and picking Earl’s famous
banjo backstage.
1981. Left hometown of Burbank,
California. Moved to Oregon. Featured
as soloist and in bands at fairs,
concerts, river trips, rodeos,
ranches, trail rides.
Foxfire band: 1985-98. Concert
tours U. S. (1993) and Europe
(1998). Larry remembers: “Jeff,
Bob, Leonard, Glenn and I broke
some new ground in bluegrass and
had a blast doing it. We are eternally
grateful to the wonderful people
who supported us all those years.”
1997. Cited in America’s
Music: Bluegrass by Barry Willis.
Larry is profiled as a moving
force in Southern California bluegrass,
with early bandmates Stuart Duncan,
Alison Brown, Geoff Stelling and
John Hickman.
2002-2006: member of Déjà
Blue and Columbia Cutups.
2007: STUMPTOWN STARS evolve
out of the old Columbia Cutups.
Larry says: “We guarantee
top bluegrass-Americana entertainment!
We deliver a tight show and loads
of fun! Nolan, Chris, Greg, Marshall
and I love our audiences and play
for keeps!
Fresh Tracks Studio www.freshtracksstudio.com
John's cutting edge technology, patient
guidance, and unerringly accurate ear
have helped us all in our recording
projects.
Larry
Bulaich Wilder and the Stumptown Stars
are here to entertain! Engaging and
fun show to fit your community concert,
school, festival, party, fund-raiser,
cultural symposium, fair, corporate
event, club, pub or wedding. Available
as duo, trio, quartet or more, this
dynamic group plays the finest music
in its genre. Hot bluegrass, cowboy,
folk, roots featuring fancy and harmony
yodeling! The Stumptown Stars of Portland,
OR have won awards with their solid,
tasty and lightning acoustic instrumentals
on guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle and
bass. 
