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Composed by Braxton County, West Virginia, old-time fiddler Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997).

According to the booklet accompanying Carpenter's LP, the story behind the tune is one of a difficult adjustment to a forced change in Ernie's life. He had worked most of his life for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in Clarksburg, prior to retiring in 1972 to his home in Braxton County, West Virginia.

He was a regular visitor during his working years to his homeplace on the Elk River, and was witness to the planning and construction of the Sutton Dam by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the river during the 1950's and 1960's.

Unfortunately, this resulted in the flooding of his boyhood home and the surrounding area, despite the efforts of himself and neighbors to forestall the project through a lobbyist. He refused the government's initial offer for his land (they didn't offer him anything for his house), and took the case to court.

He was able to gain a marked increase in the money he eventually was paid through this process, although he had to pay legal fees out of his pocket. He stayed in his Elk River homestead while the dam was being constructed, even though most of his neighbors had already left. Workmen blocked the roads in and out of the area, but Carpenter found alternate routes until they too were closed off.

"I was the last person out of there," he said," I went ahead then and tore the old place town and brought it up here. Part of its in this house." Of the tune, he remarked: "I was sittin' here one day, an' I had the blues. I reckon as bad as anybody could, thinkin' about my old homeplace up on the Elk River. I started sawin' on the fiddle an' that's what I came up with."

...more at: Elk River Blues - full Score(s) and Annotations

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+|f_track=Elk River Blues.mp3
-|f_pdf=Katharine ogie.pdf
+|f_pdf=Elk River Blues.pdf
-|f_artwork=Lady_OGLE,_Nord_de_Waterloo,_Brussels,_1856_(cm_18,5_x_25,5).JPG
+|f_artwork=Ernie Carpenter.jpg
-|f_tune_name=Katharine Oggle
+|f_tune_name=Elk River Blues
-|f_track_title=Katharine Oggle
+|f_track_title=Elk River Blues
-|f_section=X5
+|f_section=abc
-|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/juliepetit-violedegambe Julie Petit]
+|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/jatek-zenekar Jatek Zenekar]
-|f_notes= Kerr Crest & Coats of Arms.
+|f_notes=Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997)
-|f_caption=Lady Catherine Ogle was a real personage, who in 1591 married Sir Charles Cavendish of Stoke and Welbeck Abbey (c. 1553-1617), his second wife. They lived in Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire. She was born around 1570 and was the daughter of Cuthbert Ogle, 7th Lord Ogle, in Northumberland. Catherine inherited the barony of Ogle (she was the 8th Baroness), which then passed into the Cavendish family.
+|f_caption=According to the booklet accompanying Carpenter's LP, the story behind the tune is one of a difficult adjustment to a forced change in Ernie's life.
-|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/juliepetit-violedegambe/katherine-oggie Soundcloud]
+|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/jatek-zenekar/elk-river-blues Soundcloud]
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-|f_article=[[Katharine Oggle | '''Katharine Oggle''']]
+|f_article=[[Elk River Blues | '''Elk River Blues''']]
-The air was credited to Irish harper Rory dall O'Cahan by William Grattan Flood, the Irish antiquarian in his History of Irish Music. Rory dall spent most of his life in Scotland between 1601 and 1650, known to the court of King James in that country; despite this Flood seems anxious to claim the melody as Irish in origin.
+Composed by Braxton County, West Virginia, old-time fiddler Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997).
-Unfortunately, Grattan Flood's work tends to be error-prone, and it is hard to credit any unsubstantiated assertions with much veracity. "Katherine Ogle" (there are numerous spelling variations) appears earliest in the Scottish '''Panmure Manuscript''' #9454, c. 1675, '''Seventy Seven Dances, Songs and Scots Airs for the Violin''', and was printed under this title in the Appendix (written in 1688) to Playford's '''Dancing Master''' of 1686 (a note called it "a new dance"). On the strength of the Playford publication in the '''Dancing Master''', 1686 edition, the English collector Chappell (1859) disputes the claim of Scottish ancestry.
+According to the booklet accompanying Carpenter's LP, the story behind the tune is one of a difficult adjustment to a forced change in Ernie's life. He had worked most of his life for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in Clarksburg, prior to retiring in 1972 to his home in Braxton County, West Virginia.
-Chappell (1859), in fact, takes virulent exception to Stenhouse's scholarship regarding this tune after the latter claimed that the air was Scottish and dated it from the year 1680 (when it was sung by Mr. John Abell at a concert in Stationers' Hall). Chappell found that the only date Abell could possibly have sung it was in 1702, and he states that the earliest printing was in the Appendix to the 7th edition of Playford's '''Dancing Master''' of 1686 (where it appears under the title "Lady Catherine Ogle"); Chappell, who claimed many Irish and Scottish airs as English, was evidently unaware of the version in the '''Panmure Manuscript''' when he accused Stenhouse of being deliberately misleading regarding its national origin. John Glen (1891 and 1900) also disagrees with Chappell, noting that Chappell's own source, John Playford, published the tune a year before it was mentioned in '''The Dancing Master's''' appendix (1688) in '''Apollo's Banquet''' (5th edition, 1687) where it is called a "Scotch Tune" in footnotes and in fact appears under the title "A Scotch Tune" only. O'Farrell (c. 1806) also listed the melody as "Scotch." J.M. Wood ('''The Popular Songs and Melodies of Scotland''', 1887) also concluded it was Scottish, "from internal evidence."
+He was a regular visitor during his working years to his homeplace on the Elk River, and was witness to the planning and construction of the Sutton Dam by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the river during the 1950's and 1960's.
-It appears in one of the earliest Scottish fiddler's manuscript repertory books, c. 1705, in the private collection of Frances Collinson (1971). Early Scottish manuscript versions include the '''Guthrie Manuscript''' (c. 1680), the '''Panmure Violin 1 Manuscript''' (c. 1670's), and the '''Leyden Manuscript''' (c. 1692, though not the exact version given by Playford). The air appears in full in the '''Guthrie Manuscript''' (c. 1680's), which was named for Covenanting minister James Guthrie of Stirling, beheaded in 1661 for publishing a seditious pamphlet; it appears in a section of music inserted later in a book of his sermons.
+Unfortunately, this resulted in the flooding of his boyhood home and the surrounding area, despite the efforts of himself and neighbors to forestall the project through a lobbyist. He refused the government's initial offer for his land (they didn't offer him anything for his house), and took the case to court.
-Mary Anne Alburger points out that he was probably no lover of dance music, and that it is possible someone sewed the music into Guthrie's book as a joke.
+He was able to gain a marked increase in the money he eventually was paid through this process, although he had to pay legal fees out of his pocket. He stayed in his Elk River homestead while the dam was being constructed, even though most of his neighbors had already left.  Workmen blocked the roads in and out of the area, but Carpenter found alternate routes until they too were closed off.
+"I was the last person out of there," he said," I went ahead then and tore the old place town and brought it up here. Part of its in this house." Of the tune, he remarked: "I was sittin' here one day, an' I had the blues. I reckon as bad as anybody could, thinkin' about my old homeplace up on the Elk River. I started sawin' on the fiddle an' that's what I came up with."
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