Annotation:Old Flannigan

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X:1 T:Old Flannigan N:From the playing of the Blue Ridge Mountaineers, 1929 M:C| L:1/8 D:Gennett 6870 (78 RPM), Blue Ridge Mountaineers (1929) D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P1K5uKd_8o Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:A e2fg||Sagaf ecee|{f} =gfed ceA2|dcBA GBGB |eceg fec2| agaf ece2|{f}=gfed cce2|EGBc dBG2|A2 ce a2eg-| agaf ecee{f}|=gfed cde2|dcBA GEGB|eceg fe c2| agaf ece2|{f}=gfed c2e2|EGBc dBG2|A2 ce a4|| K:E Bege bege|Bege bege|agfe dfdf|e2ef gfe2| Bege bege|Bege bege|agfe dfdf|1e2gb e'4:|2e2 gb e'2fgS||

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OLD FLANNIGAN/FLANAGAN. American, Reel (cut time). USA, Kentucky. A Major ('A' part) & E Major ('B' part). Standard or AEae tuning (fiddle). AABB (Songer): AABB' (Phillips). The tune was brought north to Kentucky by a fiddler named Brack Flannigan, originally from Texas, who settled in the Gallatin/Grant County area. It was recorded by a Grant County, northeast Kentucky, band called the Blue Ridge Mountaineers in 1929 in Richmond, Indiana, one of only two sides the group recorded. The Mountaineer's fiddler, Frank Miller, had the tune from his uncle John Hall who had learned it from Flannigan, and Miller and his cousin (John's son, Jarvie Hall) were the only two fiddlers who are known to have played the tune. Having no name for it, they called it after their original source . The story may be somewhat apocryphal as the tune appears to be derived from "Old Mother Flanagan." Collector John Harrod explains the Ohio River fiddle style, a la Frank Miller, sounds similar to Canadian fiddling, fast and 'notey'.

See also the related Missouri melody "'A' and 'E' Rag."