Annotation:Old Drake

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OLD DRAKE. Old-Time. The tonality wavers between A and D. AEae tuning (fiddle). The modal tune was apparently in the repertoire of West Virginia fiddler biography:Edden Hammons, however, the tune that appears on SA-2, "The Edden Hammons Collection, vol. 2" is "Big Fancy," which appears on the first volume of the collection (SA-1) under its correct title. "Old Drake" was in the repertoire of Dwight Diller [1] (who perhaps learned it from Burl Hammons), and of the group The Raincrows and their fiddler Jimmy Triplett (Clay, West Virginia). There is also an old VHS video entitled: "The Old Drake: Traditional Music from the Mountains of East Central West Virginia Played on the Banjo and Fiddle: Visiting Dwight Diller with Jimmy Triplett."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources:

Recorded sources: Yew Pine Mountain Music, Dwight Diller - "Harvest" (1997).

See also listing at:
Hear Burl Hammons play the tune on fiddle at Slippery Hill [2]
See Diller's clawhammer banjo tab [3]

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