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'''JENNY BAKER'''. AKA - "Jennie Baker." AKA and see "[[Boys of Bluehill (The)]]," "[[Beaux of Oak Hill (1)]]," "[[Twin Sisters (3)]]." | |f_annotation='''JENNY BAKER'''. AKA - "Jennie Baker." AKA and see "[[Boys of Bluehill (The)]]," "[[Beaux of Oak Hill (1)]]," "[[Mountain Hornpipe (4)]]," "[[Twin Sisters (3)]]." American, Reel. USA, Kentucky. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Guthrie Meade identifies this as a Kentucky tune which bears a close relationship to "[[Fire in the Mountain]]" and other tunes of the "[[Sally Goodin']]" tune family. The basis for the tune appears to be the Irish-style hornpipe "[[Boys of Bluehill (The)]]." See also the related "[[Old Ark's a-Moving (The)]].'" West Virginia fiddler Melvin Wine played it under the title "[[Twin Sisters (3)]]." The melody was recorded in the 78 RPM era by Kentucky's Jimmy Johnson String Band, featuring Andy Palmer on fiddle. It was also recorded as an untitled tune, part of a medley, by William B. Houchens (1884-c.1955), who recorded a dozen tunes for the Starr Piano Company of Indiana (including such chestnuts as "Arkansas Traveler" and "Turkey in the Straw"). Houchens spent much of his adult life running a music conservatory in Dayton, Ohio, where he taught a variety of stringed instruments (Charles Wolfe). Paul Mitchell identifies "[[Mountain Hornpipe (4)]]," in the repertory of latter 20th century fiddler Erskine Morris (1913-1997), originally from Douglastown, Gaspé, Québec, to be a cognate (and quite close) version of "Jenny Baker"/"[[Twin Sisters (3)]]." | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=Pat Conte [Phillips]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1'''), 1994; p. 123. | |||
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Latest revision as of 04:32, 18 August 2023
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JENNY BAKER. AKA - "Jennie Baker." AKA and see "Boys of Bluehill (The)," "Beaux of Oak Hill (1)," "Mountain Hornpipe (4)," "Twin Sisters (3)." American, Reel. USA, Kentucky. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Guthrie Meade identifies this as a Kentucky tune which bears a close relationship to "Fire in the Mountain" and other tunes of the "Sally Goodin'" tune family. The basis for the tune appears to be the Irish-style hornpipe "Boys of Bluehill (The)." See also the related "Old Ark's a-Moving (The).'" West Virginia fiddler Melvin Wine played it under the title "Twin Sisters (3)." The melody was recorded in the 78 RPM era by Kentucky's Jimmy Johnson String Band, featuring Andy Palmer on fiddle. It was also recorded as an untitled tune, part of a medley, by William B. Houchens (1884-c.1955), who recorded a dozen tunes for the Starr Piano Company of Indiana (including such chestnuts as "Arkansas Traveler" and "Turkey in the Straw"). Houchens spent much of his adult life running a music conservatory in Dayton, Ohio, where he taught a variety of stringed instruments (Charles Wolfe). Paul Mitchell identifies "Mountain Hornpipe (4)," in the repertory of latter 20th century fiddler Erskine Morris (1913-1997), originally from Douglastown, Gaspé, Québec, to be a cognate (and quite close) version of "Jenny Baker"/"Twin Sisters (3)."
