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'''ROSCOE.''' Old-Time, Breakdown. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AA'BB (Phillips). The tune was in the repertoire of fiddler and banjo player Kyle Creed (1912–1982), who learned it from from Roscoe Russell. Creed was from Surry County, North Carolina, and worked as a carpenter and ran a country store at Piper’s Gap, near the Blue Ridge Parkway and not far from Galax, Virginia. He was also an instrument maker and a member of the band The Camp Creek Boys, whose members also included Roscoe Russell on guitar. [[File:creed&russell.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Kyle Creed & Roscoe Russell]] | '''ROSCOE.''' Old-Time, Breakdown/Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AA'BB (Phillips). The tune was in the repertoire of fiddler and banjo player Kyle Creed (1912–1982), who learned it from from Roscoe Russell; Creed couldn't remember the name of the tune and called it after his source. Creed was from Surry County, North Carolina, and worked as a carpenter and ran a country store at Piper’s Gap, near the Blue Ridge Parkway and not far from Galax, Virginia. He was also an instrument maker and a member of the band The Camp Creek Boys, whose members also included Roscoe Russell on guitar. [[File:creed&russell.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Kyle Creed & Roscoe Russell]] | ||
Russell was from Carroll County, southwest Virginia, near Galax, and was also a carpenter and instrument maker. | |||
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Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/r09.htm#Ros7]<br> | Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/r09.htm#Ros7]<br> | ||
Hear Kyle Creeds recording at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/roscoe]<br> | Hear Kyle Creeds recording at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/roscoe]<br> | ||
Hear the tune played by Matt Brown [http://drdosido.net/fiddleclub/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Roscoe.mp3]<br> | |||
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Revision as of 05:10, 13 February 2018
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Russell was from Carroll County, southwest Virginia, near Galax, and was also a carpenter and instrument maker.