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'''FIDDLER'S DRAM'''. AKA - "Fiddler a Dram." AKA and see "[[Give the Fiddler a Dram]]." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; central West Virginia, northeast Alabama. G Major/Mixolydian ( | '''FIDDLER'S DRAM'''. AKA - "Fiddler a Dram." AKA and see "[[Give the Fiddler a Dram]]." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; central West Virginia, northeast Alabama. G Major/Mixolydian (Spadaro): A Mixolydian (Milliner & Koken). Standard, AEae (James Crase) or DGdg (Harvey Sampson) tunings (fiddle). AAB (Milliner & Koken): AABB (Spadaro). The tune was a standard one in the square dance fiddler repertoire as asserted by A.B. Moore in '''History of Alabama''' (1934) {Cauthen, 1990}. | ||
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Augusta Heritage Recordings AHR-004C, Harvey Sampson and the Big Possum String Band – "Flat Foot in the Ashes" (1986/1994. Learned by Calhoun County, W.Va., fiddler Harvey Sampson from his father). | |||
Fantasy 24711, "The Holy Modal Rounders." | |||
Folkways SF CD 40077, James Crase – "Mountain Music of Kentucky" (1996. Originally released in 1960). | |||
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FIDDLER'S DRAM. AKA - "Fiddler a Dram." AKA and see "Give the Fiddler a Dram." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; central West Virginia, northeast Alabama. G Major/Mixolydian (Spadaro): A Mixolydian (Milliner & Koken). Standard, AEae (James Crase) or DGdg (Harvey Sampson) tunings (fiddle). AAB (Milliner & Koken): AABB (Spadaro). The tune was a standard one in the square dance fiddler repertoire as asserted by A.B. Moore in History of Alabama (1934) {Cauthen, 1990}.
Source for notated version: James Crase (Bear Branch, Kentucky) [Milliner & Koken]. Crase was recorded in the field in 1959 by John Cohen.
Printed sources: Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 193. Spadaro (10 Cents a Dance), 1980; p. 42.
Recorded sources:
Augusta Heritage Recordings AHR-004C, Harvey Sampson and the Big Possum String Band – "Flat Foot in the Ashes" (1986/1994. Learned by Calhoun County, W.Va., fiddler Harvey Sampson from his father).
Fantasy 24711, "The Holy Modal Rounders."
Folkways SF CD 40077, James Crase – "Mountain Music of Kentucky" (1996. Originally released in 1960).
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear James Crase's version at Slippery-Hill [2]