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Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection
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Item Title
[Breakdown in A]
Author/Creator
Collector: Jabbour, Alan
Performer: Reed, Henry; fiddle
Performer: Reed, Gene; guitar
Created/Published
May 06, 1967
Reed family home, Glen Lyn, Virginia (Giles County)
Notes
Ralph Stanley has recorded an instrumental tune, "Clinch Mountain Backstep," that sounds like a version of this tune; see for example "Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys Play Requests" (Rebel-SLP-1514). Henry Reed plays it accompanied by his son Gene (here) and unaccompanied (AFS 13703b25).
Title change: The title appeared in the fieldnotes as "Unnamed."
Key: A
Meter: 4/4
Strains: 2 (high-low, 4-4)
Rendition: (1)-2r-1r-1
Phrase Structure: ABAC QRQC (abac ab'db qbqr qb'db)
Compass: 10
Spoken: ALAN JABBOUR: What is that?/HENRY REED: I forget the name of it, it's as old as the mountains./ALAN JABBOUR: It is? That's a pretty tune.
Recording chronology: 124
Related Tune(s): Clinch Mountain Backstep
Duration: 56 seconds
Subject
Breakdowns
Reels
Fiddle tunes
Instrumentals--fiddle and guitar
Ethnography
Music
United States--Virginia--Giles County--Glen Lyn
Object Type
Medium
sound recording
Language
English
Call Number
AFC LWO 5379 reel 1B, AFS 13703B:24
Digital ID
afcreed 13703b24
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcreed.13703b24