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'''ROSCOE.''' Old-Time, Breakdown/Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AA'BB (Phillips). The tune was in the repertoire of fiddler and banjo player Kyle Creed (1912–1982), who learned it from from Roscoe Russell; Creed couldn't remember the name of the tune and called it after his source. Creed was from Surry County, North Carolina, and worked as a carpenter and ran a country store at Piper’s Gap, near the Blue Ridge Parkway and not far from Galax, Virginia. He was also an instrument maker and a member of the band The Camp Creek Boys, whose members also included Roscoe Russell on guitar and baritone ukulele. [[File:creed&russell.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Kyle Creed & Roscoe Russell]] | '''ROSCOE.''' Old-Time, Breakdown/Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AA'BB (Phillips). The tune was in the repertoire of fiddler and banjo player Kyle Creed (1912–1982), who learned it from from Roscoe Russell; Creed couldn't remember the name of the tune and called it after his source. Creed was from originally from near Round Peak, Surry County, northwestern North Carolina, and but later worked as a carpenter and ran a country store at Piper’s Gap, near the Blue Ridge Parkway and not far from Galax, Virginia. He was also an instrument maker and a member of the band The Camp Creek Boys, whose members also included Roscoe Russell on guitar and baritone ukulele. [[File:creed&russell.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Kyle Creed & Roscoe Russell]] | ||
Russell was | Russell was renowned as a maker of banjos (approx. 200 are reliably attributed to him) and Appalachian dulcimers whose instruments tended to be louder than other dulcimers due to the innovation of a false back or double-bottom. He won the Galax Old Fiddler’s Convention dulcimer competition in 1976. | ||
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== Additional notes == | == Additional notes == | ||
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<font color=red>''Source for notated version''</font>: - Jere Canote (Seattle) [Phillips]. | <font color=red>''Source for notated version''</font>: - Jere Canote (Seattle) [Phillips]. | ||
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<font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1'''), 1994; p. 202. Silberberg ('''Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern'''), 2002; p. 133. | <font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1'''), 1994; p. 202. Silberberg ('''Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern'''), 2002; p. 133. | ||
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<font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> - Mountain LP 301, The Camp Creek Boys - "Blue Ridge Mountain Square Dance Time" (1972). Marimac 9043, Boiled Buzzards - "Fine Dining" (1991). Rounder Records, Bob Paisley and the Southern Mountain Boys - "Lovesick and Sorrow" (1978).</font> | <font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> - Mountain LP 301, The Camp Creek Boys - "Blue Ridge Mountain Square Dance Time" (1972). Marimac 9043, Boiled Buzzards - "Fine Dining" (1991). Rounder Records, Bob Paisley and the Southern Mountain Boys - "Lovesick and Sorrow" (1978).</font> | ||
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See also listing at:<br> | See also listing at:<br> | ||
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/r09.htm#Ros7]<br> | Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/r09.htm#Ros7]<br> | ||
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Russell was renowned as a maker of banjos (approx. 200 are reliably attributed to him) and Appalachian dulcimers whose instruments tended to be louder than other dulcimers due to the innovation of a false back or double-bottom. He won the Galax Old Fiddler’s Convention dulcimer competition in 1976.