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'''GENTLE ANNIE'''. American, Air. USA, West Virginia. A Stephen Foster | '''GENTLE ANNIE'''. American, Air (whole time). USA, West Virginia. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A song written and composed by American songwriter Stephen Foster () that entered instrumental tradition in America and abroad. One source, West Virginia fiddler Oscar Wright, learned it from his mother, never knew it was originally a song. Researcher Conor Ward finds the tune among those entered into the c. 1883 music manuscript collection of fiddler [[biography:Francis Reynolds]], of Gaigue, Ballinamuck, County Longford. | ||
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GENTLE ANNIE. American, Air (whole time). USA, West Virginia. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A song written and composed by American songwriter Stephen Foster () that entered instrumental tradition in America and abroad. One source, West Virginia fiddler Oscar Wright, learned it from his mother, never knew it was originally a song. Researcher Conor Ward finds the tune among those entered into the c. 1883 music manuscript collection of fiddler biography:Francis Reynolds, of Gaigue, Ballinamuck, County Longford.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources:
Recorded sources: Rounder 0089, Oscar & Eugene Wright - "Old Time Fiddle and Guitar Music from West Virginia."