Black Jack Grove (1)

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BLACK JACK GROVE [1]. AKA - "Blackjack Grove." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Kentucky. A Mixolydian ('A' part) & A Dorian ('B' part) {Phillips, Titon}: A Mixolydian ('A' part) & A Major ('B' part) {Silberberg}. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberbert): AABB (Phillips, Titon). Phillips notes that his source, Walter McNew, tended to blur the 'C' notes in the 'B' part of his unaccompanied version, resulting in a tonality somewhere between minor and major. Jeff Titon (2001) finds the title in tune lists from Berea College in 1915 and in the 1919 Berea fiddle contest list. The title presumably takes its name from a locale with a grove of blackjack oak trees.

Walter McNew

Source for notated version: Walter McNew (Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County, Ky.) [Phillips, Titon].

Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; p. 21. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 12. Titon (Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001; No. 13, p. 47.

Recorded sources: Berea College Appalachian Center AC005, Walter McNew - "Black Jack Grove" (1993). Yodel-Ay-Hee 003, "Dirk Powell and John Hermann" (1992). Appalachian Center AC 005, Walter McNew (Rockcastle County, Ky.) - "Blackjack Grove" (Learned from his father, John McNew, who had it from a Wildie, Ky., area fiddler named Uncle Garret Bow).

See also listing at:
Hear McNew playing the tune (recorded by Steve Green July-August 1992 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky) at the Digital Library of Appalachia [1] and at Berea Digital Content [2]
Hear/see fiddler Kenny Jackson play a version of the tune on youtube.com [3]

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