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'''MANDOLIN KING RAG.''' Old-Time, Country Rag. Hensley was the mandolin player for the group Walker's Corbin | '''MANDOLIN KING RAG.''' Old-Time, Country Rag. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). Composer Larry Hensley (1912-1973), of Monarck, Virginia, was the mandolin and guitar player for the group Walker's Corbin Ramblers, a group from Corbin, Kentucky, led by John V. Walker (1891-1980), an L&N Railroad fireman. Charles Wolfe ('''Kentucky Country''', 1996, p. 40) calls Hensley "a skilled an innovative virtuoso who was among the first in a long line of Kentucky mandolin and guitar soloists." His recording partner for "Mandolin King Rag" was Mack Taylor, also a guitar and mandolin player with Walker's Corbin Ramblers, who later in life lived in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. A more modern version of the rag was later recorded by the Even Dozen Jug Band, featuring David Grisman on mandolin. | ||
[[File:corbin.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Walker's Corbin Ramblers. Hensley and Taylor are on right, top and bottom]] | |||
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Vocalion 02640 (78 RPM), | ''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Vocalion 02640 (78 RPM), Hensley & Taylor (1934. Recorded NYC). </font> | ||
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Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/m03.htm#Mankira]<br> | |||
Hear Hensley & Taylor's 1934 recording at Slippery Hill [http://slippery-hill.com/c/MandolinKingRag.mp3] and Juneberry 78's [http://www.juneberry78s.com/otmsampler/388%20Hensley%20&%20Taylor%20-%20Mandolin%20King%20Rag.mp3]<br> | |||
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MANDOLIN KING RAG. Old-Time, Country Rag. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). Composer Larry Hensley (1912-1973), of Monarck, Virginia, was the mandolin and guitar player for the group Walker's Corbin Ramblers, a group from Corbin, Kentucky, led by John V. Walker (1891-1980), an L&N Railroad fireman. Charles Wolfe (Kentucky Country, 1996, p. 40) calls Hensley "a skilled an innovative virtuoso who was among the first in a long line of Kentucky mandolin and guitar soloists." His recording partner for "Mandolin King Rag" was Mack Taylor, also a guitar and mandolin player with Walker's Corbin Ramblers, who later in life lived in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. A more modern version of the rag was later recorded by the Even Dozen Jug Band, featuring David Grisman on mandolin.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources:
Recorded sources: Vocalion 02640 (78 RPM), Hensley & Taylor (1934. Recorded NYC).
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear Hensley & Taylor's 1934 recording at Slippery Hill [2] and Juneberry 78's [3]