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According to western North Carolina fiddler Bill Hensley (1873-1960), the fiddle tune "Georgia Belle" originated with a man named Hugh Bell, who was alive and fiddling during the American Civil War, but "who went crazy in jail playing his fiddle"<ref>David Parker Bennett's 1940 dissertation "A Study in Fiddle Tunes from Western North Carolina", p. 21 [https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1789&context=msu_theses_dissertation]</ref>. Hensley told one interviewer that Hugh and his brother "came over from England" and that they were both fiddle makers. Hensley also attributed the tune "[[Green River]]" to Bell. | According to western North Carolina fiddler Bill Hensley (1873-1960), the fiddle tune "Georgia Belle" originated with a man named Hugh Bell, who was alive and fiddling during the American Civil War, but "who went crazy in jail playing his fiddle"<ref>See David Parker Bennett's 1940 dissertation "A Study in Fiddle Tunes from Western North Carolina", p. 21 [https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1789&context=msu_theses_dissertation]</ref>. Hensley told one interviewer that Hugh and his brother "came over from England" and that they were both fiddle makers. Hensley also attributed the tune "[[Green River]]" to Bell. Fiddler Osey Helton, who lived near Asheville, played "Georgia Belle" but called it "Pokey Huntus" (Pocahontas, the odd spelling is Helton's). "Hensley and Helton are great rivals and I suspect Bill of changing the name of the tune just because he didn't want to call it by the same name that Helton did"<ref>ibid.</ref>. | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=Bill Hensley (North Carolina) [Milliner & Koken]; Manco Sneed [http://www.fieldrecorder.com/docs/notes/sneed_owen.htm] (Graham County, North Carolina) [Krassen]. | |f_source_for_notated_version=Bill Hensley (North Carolina) [Milliner & Koken]; Manco Sneed [http://www.fieldrecorder.com/docs/notes/sneed_owen.htm] (Graham County, North Carolina) [Krassen]. | ||
|f_printed_sources=Krassen ('''Masters of Old-Time Fiddling'''), 1983; pp. 126-127. Milliner & Koken ('''Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes'''), 2011; p. 230. | |f_printed_sources=Krassen ('''Masters of Old-Time Fiddling'''), 1983; pp. 126-127. Milliner & Koken ('''Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes'''), 2011; p. 230. |
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According to western North Carolina fiddler Bill Hensley (1873-1960), the fiddle tune "Georgia Belle" originated with a man named Hugh Bell, who was alive and fiddling during the American Civil War, but "who went crazy in jail playing his fiddle"[1]. Hensley told one interviewer that Hugh and his brother "came over from England" and that they were both fiddle makers. Hensley also attributed the tune "Green River" to Bell. Fiddler Osey Helton, who lived near Asheville, played "Georgia Belle" but called it "Pokey Huntus" (Pocahontas, the odd spelling is Helton's). "Hensley and Helton are great rivals and I suspect Bill of changing the name of the tune just because he didn't want to call it by the same name that Helton did"[2].