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'''GREEN VALLEY WALTZ'''. | |f_annotation='''GREEN VALLEY WALTZ'''. American, Waltz. USA; east Tennessee, Oklahoma. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Phillips): AABB (Thede). Most sources trace back to Tennesse's Fiddlin' Arthur Smith. "[[Green Meadow Waltz]]" is a related melody. Mike Seegar is quoted as saying: "I know of no other fiddler who uses Arthur Smith's device of singing in harmony with the fiddle on the last lines as he does in 'Green Valley Waltz'" ['''Florence Times''', July 28, 1968]. The waltz was recorded by east Tennessee fiddler Jimmy McCarroll with the Roane County Ramblers for Columbia Records in October 1928, but the side was unissued. | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=John Lewis (Heavener, Oklahoma) [Thede]; Skip Gorman [Phillips]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2'''), 1995; p. 265. Thede ('''The Fiddle Book'''), 1967; p. 146. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Folkways FA 2379, "McGee Brothers and Arthur Smith" (1964. Originally recorded 1957). Marimac 9008, The Lazy Aces - "Still Lazy After All These Years" (1986. Learned from an Arthur Smith recording). | |||
|f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/g09.htm#Grevawa]<br> | |||
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Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/g09.htm#Grevawa]<br> | |||
Latest revision as of 16:27, 1 August 2024
GREEN VALLEY WALTZ. American, Waltz. USA; east Tennessee, Oklahoma. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Phillips): AABB (Thede). Most sources trace back to Tennesse's Fiddlin' Arthur Smith. "Green Meadow Waltz" is a related melody. Mike Seegar is quoted as saying: "I know of no other fiddler who uses Arthur Smith's device of singing in harmony with the fiddle on the last lines as he does in 'Green Valley Waltz'" [Florence Times, July 28, 1968]. The waltz was recorded by east Tennessee fiddler Jimmy McCarroll with the Roane County Ramblers for Columbia Records in October 1928, but the side was unissued.
