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'''OLD FORT SMITH.''' Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; Arkansas, Missouri. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This tune bears only faint resemblance to Thede's "[[Fort Smith (1)]]" but is similar in the first strain to "[[Fort Smith Breakdown]]."  The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. "Old Fort Smith" is one of '100 essential Missouri tunes' listed by Missouri fiddler Charlie Walden.   
'''OLD FORT SMITH.''' Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; Arkansas, Missouri. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This tune bears only faint resemblance to Thede's "[[Fort Smith (1)]]" but is similar in the first strain to "[[Fort Smith Breakdown]]."  The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. "Old Fort Smith" is one of '100 essential Missouri tunes' listed by Missouri fiddler Charlie Walden.   
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''Source for notated version'': Lonnie Robertson (Ozark County, Missouri) [Christeson].
''Source for notated version'': Lonnie Robertson (Ozark County, Missouri) [Christeson].
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''Printed sources'': R.P. Christeson ('''Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, vol. 2'''), 1984; p. 75.  
''Printed sources'': R.P. Christeson ('''Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, vol. 2'''), 1984; p. 75.  
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Rounder 0437, H.K. Silvey  - "Traditional Fiddle Music of the Ozarks, vol. 3: Down in the Border Counties."</font>
''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Rounder 0437, H.K. Silvey  - "Traditional Fiddle Music of the Ozarks, vol. 3: Down in the Border Counties."</font>
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See also listing at:<br>
See also listing at:<br>
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/o05.htm#Oldfosm]<br>
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/o05.htm#Oldfosm]<br>

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OLD FORT SMITH. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; Arkansas, Missouri. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This tune bears only faint resemblance to Thede's "Fort Smith (1)" but is similar in the first strain to "Fort Smith Breakdown." The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. "Old Fort Smith" is one of '100 essential Missouri tunes' listed by Missouri fiddler Charlie Walden.

Source for notated version: Lonnie Robertson (Ozark County, Missouri) [Christeson].

Printed sources: R.P. Christeson (Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, vol. 2), 1984; p. 75.

Recorded sources: Rounder 0437, H.K. Silvey - "Traditional Fiddle Music of the Ozarks, vol. 3: Down in the Border Counties."

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]




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