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'''GOING UP BRUSHY FORK'''. AKA and see "[[Cripple Creek]]." | '''GOING UP BRUSHY FORK'''. AKA and see "[[Cripple Creek]]." American, Reel (cut time). USA, West Virginia. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABBCC. "Going up Brushy Fork" is a local West Virginia title for the tune widely known as "[[Cripple Creek]], essentially differing only in the title. It was recorded in New York in 1929 by Kanawha County, W.Va., fiddler [[biography:Clark Kessinger]] (1896-1975) and his nephew Luches (collectively, 'The Kessinger Brothers') for the Brunswick label, although not commercially released until the next year. The tune features Kessinger's "brushing pizzicato" effect. Brunswick also released a version in Canada on their subsidiary Melotone label (M18018), giving the band's name as "Les Serenaders Du Lac St Jean." The tune was also recorded by Arkansas fiddler and violin-maker Violet Hensley [http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=4698] (b. 1916), in a slightly "crooked" version in her third strain. | ||
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<font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> - | <font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> - Brunswick 458 (78 RPM), The Kessinger Brothers (1930). Violet Hensley - "The Whittling Fiddler and Family" (1983).</font> | ||
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<p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2">See also listing at:<br> | |||
See a standard notation transcription of Clark Kessinger's 1929 recording by Kenneth Rainey [http://kennethrainey.com/2016/09/going-up-brushy-fork/]<br> | |||
Hear the Kessinger Brother's recording at youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VmAgB42HtM]<br> | |||
Hear Violet Hensley's 1983 recording at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/going-brushy-fork]<br> | |||
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GOING UP BRUSHY FORK. AKA and see "Cripple Creek." American, Reel (cut time). USA, West Virginia. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABBCC. "Going up Brushy Fork" is a local West Virginia title for the tune widely known as "Cripple Creek, essentially differing only in the title. It was recorded in New York in 1929 by Kanawha County, W.Va., fiddler biography:Clark Kessinger (1896-1975) and his nephew Luches (collectively, 'The Kessinger Brothers') for the Brunswick label, although not commercially released until the next year. The tune features Kessinger's "brushing pizzicato" effect. Brunswick also released a version in Canada on their subsidiary Melotone label (M18018), giving the band's name as "Les Serenaders Du Lac St Jean." The tune was also recorded by Arkansas fiddler and violin-maker Violet Hensley [1] (b. 1916), in a slightly "crooked" version in her third strain.