USA; western North Carolina, southwest Virginia, east
Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning. AB (Silberberg):
AABB (Phillips). The tune has been called a Blue Ridge
area standard, though Tom Carter and Barry Poss
believe it was a relatively late addition to the
traditional fiddler's repertoire of Patrick County,
Va., "though one which most of the older fiddlers
learned." It is known as a Surry County, North
Carolina, regional tune, and was, for example, in the
repertoire of Otis Burris; a rather ...(+)
USA; western North Carolina, southwest Virginia, east
Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning. AB (Silberberg):
AABB (Phillips). The tune has been called a Blue Ridge
area standard, though Tom Carter and Barry Poss
believe it was a relatively late addition to the
traditional fiddler's repertoire of Patrick County,
Va., "though one which most of the older fiddlers
learned." It is known as a Surry County, North
Carolina, regional tune, and was, for example, in the
repertoire of Otis Burris; a rather "powerful and
pretty" version was collected from Esker Hutchins of
Dobson, North Carolina.
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