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'''WASHINGTON COUNTY.''' AKA and see “[[Washington and Lee Swing (2)]]." Bluegrass, March (cut time). USA. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Phillips): AB (Brody). A bluegrass double-stop show-piece “composed” by bluegrass fiddler Kenny Baker, although it apparently is based on “Washington and Lee Swing.” Baker was Bill Monroe’s fiddler with the Bluegrass Boys for twenty years. | '''WASHINGTON COUNTY.''' AKA and see “[[Washington and Lee Swing (2)]]." Bluegrass, March (cut time). USA. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Phillips): AB (Brody). A bluegrass double-stop show-piece “composed” by bluegrass fiddler Kenny Baker [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Baker_(fiddler)], although it apparently is based on “Washington and Lee Swing.” Baker was Bill Monroe’s fiddler with the Bluegrass Boys for twenty years. | ||
[[File:kennybaker.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Kenny Baker ()]] | [[File:kennybaker.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Kenny Baker (1926-2011)]] | ||
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WASHINGTON COUNTY. AKA and see “Washington and Lee Swing (2)." Bluegrass, March (cut time). USA. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Phillips): AB (Brody). A bluegrass double-stop show-piece “composed” by bluegrass fiddler Kenny Baker [1], although it apparently is based on “Washington and Lee Swing.” Baker was Bill Monroe’s fiddler with the Bluegrass Boys for twenty years.
Source for notated version: Kenny Baker [Brody, Phillips].
Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; p. 285. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes vol. 2), 1995; p. 163 (appears as “Washington and Lee Swing” [B]).
Recorded sources: County 719, Kenny Baker “Portrait of a Bluegrass Fiddler.” County 2705, Kenny Baker – “Master Fiddler.” Rounder 0086, Butch Robbins “Forty Years Late.”