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'''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]] | '''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 and baritone ukulele. [[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 | Russell was from Carroll County, southwest Virginia, near Galax, and was also a carpenter and maker of Appalachian dulcimers, whose instruments tended to be louder than other dulcimers due to the innovation of a false back or double-bottom. He won the Galax Old Fiddler’s Convention dulcimer competition in 1976. | ||
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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> | Hear the tune played by Matt Brown [http://drdosido.net/fiddleclub/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Roscoe.mp3] (slow [http://drdosido.net/fiddleclub/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Roscoe-slow.mp3])<br> | ||
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Revision as of 05:27, 13 February 2018
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Russell was from Carroll County, southwest Virginia, near Galax, and was also a carpenter and maker of Appalachian dulcimers, whose instruments tended to be louder than other dulcimers due to the innovation of a false back or double-bottom. He won the Galax Old Fiddler’s Convention dulcimer competition in 1976.