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|f_annotation='''SWEET SUSAN.''' AKA – “Susan’s Gone.” American, Reel (cut time). USA, Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. | |f_annotation='''SWEET SUSAN.''' AKA – “Susan’s Gone.” American, Reel (cut time). USA, Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Sweet Susan" was in the repertory of east Kentucky fiddler James W. Day (AKA Blind Bill Day, AKA Jilson Setters) who was recorded in June, 1937, by John A. Lomax for the Library of Congress. Day (1861-1942), of Rowan County and Ashland, was "discovered" by Jean Thomas, an amateur folklorist who became his agent and created for him the persona of Jilson Setters, a supposed backwoods musician who played and sang old ballads and "primitive tunes." In reality, Day was an itinerant musician and sometimes beggar who played a mix of topical songs of his own composition. | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=<meta charset="UTF-8"><span>J. W. Day (AKA Jilson Setters) {Ashland, Kentucky, 1937} [Titon]. </span> | |f_source_for_notated_version=<meta charset="UTF-8"><span>J. W. Day (AKA Jilson Setters) {Ashland, Kentucky, 1937} [Titon]. </span> | ||
|f_printed_sources=<span>Titon (</span>'''Old Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes'''<span>), 2001; No. 158, p. 183.</span> | |||
|f_recorded_sources=<meta charset="UTF-8"><span>Library of Congress 1019A2, Jilson Setters/J.W. Day (Ky.), recorded for L of C by John Lomax in Ashland, Ky., 1937. Rounder 0380, Roger Cooper – “Going Back to Old Kentucky” (1997).</span> | |||
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SWEET SUSAN. AKA – “Susan’s Gone.” American, Reel (cut time). USA, Kentucky. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Sweet Susan" was in the repertory of east Kentucky fiddler James W. Day (AKA Blind Bill Day, AKA Jilson Setters) who was recorded in June, 1937, by John A. Lomax for the Library of Congress. Day (1861-1942), of Rowan County and Ashland, was "discovered" by Jean Thomas, an amateur folklorist who became his agent and created for him the persona of Jilson Setters, a supposed backwoods musician who played and sang old ballads and "primitive tunes." In reality, Day was an itinerant musician and sometimes beggar who played a mix of topical songs of his own composition.
