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APPLE BLOSSOM [2]. American, Reel (cut or 2/4 time). D Major. ADae tuning (fiddle). AB (Titon/Bowles): AABB (Phillips, Titon/Monday). The tune was not widely known outside the northern Tennessee/south-central Kentucky area known as the Cumberland Plateau. Bruce Greene finds the tune was sometimes sung with banjo accompaniment as "Fished in the Pond" or "Never Catched a Nibble."

Additional notes

Sources for notated versions: - African-American fiddler John Lusk (1886-1969, Campaign, Tenn.) [Phillips]; Isham Monday (Tomkinsville, Monroe County, Ky., 1959) [Titon]; Jim Bowles (Rock Bridge, Monroe County, Kentucky, 1959) [Titon].

Printed sources : - Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 17. Titon (Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001; Nos. 2-A & 2B, p. 33.

Recorded sources: -Carryon Records 007, The Renegades - "I Need to Find." Marimac 9060, Jim Bowles (b. 1903) - "Railroading Through the Rocky Mountains" (Learned from local musicians). Rounder CD 0238, John Lusk (fiddle), Murph Gribble (banjo); and Albert York (gtr.)- "Altamont -Black String Band Music From the Library of Congress" (1989. Originally recorded in 1949 by folklorists Sty Jamieson, Margot Mayo, and Freyda Simon). Yodel-Ay-Hee 011, Bruce Molsky.

See also listing at:
Hear John Lusk's 1949 field recording at Slippery Hill [1]
Hear Milo Bigger's 1974 field recording by Bruce Greene at Berea Sound Archives [2]

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