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Tune Annotations:	'''LAUREL LONESOME.''' American, Reel (cut time). A Major. AEAc# tuning (fiddle). ABB. The tune is sourced to the great-uncle of Madison County, western North Carolina, fiddler, folklorist, lawyer and entrepreneur [[Wikipedia:Bascom_Lamar_Lunsford]] (1882-1973). In a concert performance recorded in 1935 at Columbia University, Lunsford prefaced his playing with the following: <blockquote> ''Laurel Lonesome, a fiddle tune. My great uncle Os Deaver, who lived at the Forks of Ivy--and there's Little Ivy and Big Ivy, in Madison County--when [he was] a young man'' ''lost a valuable horse. And he trailed it to Shelton Laurel, and he went over to find the horse...he failed to find it on Laurel...but he spent that night at a'' ''mountain home, and while he was playing "Laurel Lonesome", a drunken women raised up and said, 'Os, I want you to play the lonesome tune one time more.' So'' ''he always said he got a name for his fiddle tune which he had made. "Laurel Lonesome."'' </blockquote> Shelton Laurel is the name of a creek and, in the mid-19th century, a small community (consisting of self-sufficient farm houses but no businesses) in Madison County (named for the Shelton family). It was the site of a massacre in 1863, when Confederate troops chasing raiding Union sympathizers (of which there were many in the area) captured a group of men and executed thirteen of them, including three boys ages 12, 14 and 17.
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See also listing at:	Hear a concert recording from a performance by Bascom Lamar Lunsford at Columbia University in 1935 at Berea Sound Archives [https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/758]<br> Hear Bruce Greene's version of the tune at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/laurel-lonesome]<br>

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