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Composed by Braxton County, West Virginia, old-time fiddler Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997).

According to the booklet accompanying Carpenter's LP, the story behind the tune is one of a difficult adjustment to a forced change in Ernie's life. He had worked most of his life for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in Clarksburg, prior to retiring in 1972 to his home in Braxton County, West Virginia.

He was a regular visitor during his working years to his homeplace on the Elk River, and was witness to the planning and construction of the Sutton Dam by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the river during the 1950's and 1960's.

Unfortunately, this resulted in the flooding of his boyhood home and the surrounding area, despite the efforts of himself and neighbors to forestall the project through a lobbyist. He refused the government's initial offer for his land (they didn't offer him anything for his house), and took the case to court.

He was able to gain a marked increase in the money he eventually was paid through this process, although he had to pay legal fees out of his pocket. He stayed in his Elk River homestead while the dam was being constructed, even though most of his neighbors had already left. Workmen blocked the roads in and out of the area, but Carpenter found alternate routes until they too were closed off.

"I was the last person out of there," he said," I went ahead then and tore the old place town and brought it up here. Part of its in this house." Of the tune, he remarked: "I was sittin' here one day, an' I had the blues. I reckon as bad as anybody could, thinkin' about my old homeplace up on the Elk River. I started sawin' on the fiddle an' that's what I came up with."

...more at: Elk River Blues - full Score(s) and Annotations

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-|f_track=St Annes Reel.mp3
+|f_track=Elk River Blues.mp3
-|f_pdf=St Anne's Reel.pdf
+|f_pdf=Elk River Blues.pdf
-|f_artwork=AcousticG.jpg
+|f_artwork=Ernie Carpenter.jpg
-|f_tune_name=St. Anne's Reel
+|f_tune_name=Elk River Blues
-|f_track_title=St._Anne's_Reel
+|f_track_title=Elk River Blues
 |f_section=abc
-|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/jdsaviator Jeff Smith]
+|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/jatek-zenekar Jatek Zenekar]
-|f_notes=The reel, well-known in a number of genres in the English-speaking world as St. Anne's Reel, was first recorded by Montreal fiddler Willie Ringuette as Quadrille du loup garou - 4ème partie" (1927), followed by a 78 RPM issue by another Montreal fiddler, Joseph Allard (1873-1947), as Reel des esquimaults (1930).
+|f_notes=Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997)
-|f_caption=AKA – St. Agathe. AKA and see Burravoe Rattler (The), Reel de la Baie Ste. Anne (La), Reel des esquimaults, Ste Agathe. Canadian (originally), American, Irish; Reel. Canada; Québec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Reiner & Anick, Silberberg): AABB (Begin, Brody, Cranford/Holland, Jarman, Mallinson, Martin & Hughes, Miller & Perron, O'Neill, Perlman, Sweet, Taylor): AA'BB' (Phillips).
+|f_caption=According to the booklet accompanying Carpenter's LP, the story behind the tune is one of a difficult adjustment to a forced change in Ernie's life.
-|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/jdsaviator/st-annes-reel Soundcloud]
+|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/jatek-zenekar/elk-river-blues Soundcloud]
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-|f_article=[[St._Anne's_Reel | '''St. Anne's Reel''']]
+|f_article=[[Elk River Blues | '''Elk River Blues''']]
-was popularized by Radio and TV fiddler [[wikipedia:Don_Messer|Don Messer]] (printed under the title “Sainte Agathe” in his 1948 '''Way Down East''' collection<ref>Note that the reel was printed as "Sainte Agathe" in Messer's printed collections of music, but on Don Messer and His Islander's 78 RPM recording of the tune (Apex 26291) in 1950 the tune appeared on the label as "[[St. Anne's Reel]]."</ref>), and his version has been assimilated into several North American and British Isles traditions and remains a staple of fiddlers’ jam sessions. When asked to play a Canadian tune, for example, American fiddlers generally will play “St. Anne’s” first.
+Composed by Braxton County, West Virginia, old-time fiddler Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997).
-It was in the repertoire of Cyril Stinnett, who epitomized the "North Missouri Hornpipe Style" of Mid-West fiddling, and the reel has become a part of the repertory of most Missouri fiddlers. Missouri 'received wisdom' is that Canadian tunes were learned from listening to Canadian radio broadcasts in the hey-day of the big AM band stations, which could be heard clearly in the northern part of the state, but whether "St. Anne's" was actually learned from broadcasts in unknown.  Alternatively, "St. Anne's" may have been brought back by contest fiddlers in the 1960’s who attended the renowned contests in Weiser, Idaho, and in Canada.
+According to the booklet accompanying Carpenter's LP, the story behind the tune is one of a difficult adjustment to a forced change in Ernie's life. He had worked most of his life for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in Clarksburg, prior to retiring in 1972 to his home in Braxton County, West Virginia.
-Rounder Record's Mark Wilson says its popularity in the United States dates from the 1950’s after it was recorded by Nashville fiddlers such as Tommy Jackson (whose influential playing was revered by fiddlers throughout the country).  Perlman (1996) similarly states the tune entered Prince Edward Island tradition from radio broadcasts from Québec, but that it has become more elaborate (especially in western PEI) over the years to suit the rhythms of the local step-dancing.
+He was a regular visitor during his working years to his homeplace on the Elk River, and was witness to the planning and construction of the Sutton Dam by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the river during the 1950's and 1960's.
-The earliest notational transcription of “St. Anne’s” appears to be in the Jarman collections of the 1930’s and 1940’s, where the arrangement is credited to fiddler John Burt with a copyright date of 1937.
+Unfortunately, this resulted in the flooding of his boyhood home and the surrounding area, despite the efforts of himself and neighbors to forestall the project through a lobbyist. He refused the government's initial offer for his land (they didn't offer him anything for his house), and took the case to court.
+He was able to gain a marked increase in the money he eventually was paid through this process, although he had to pay legal fees out of his pocket. He stayed in his Elk River homestead while the dam was being constructed, even though most of his neighbors had already left.  Workmen blocked the roads in and out of the area, but Carpenter found alternate routes until they too were closed off.
+"I was the last person out of there," he said," I went ahead then and tore the old place town and brought it up here. Part of its in this house." Of the tune, he remarked: "I was sittin' here one day, an' I had the blues. I reckon as bad as anybody could, thinkin' about my old homeplace up on the Elk River. I started sawin' on the fiddle an' that's what I came up with."
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