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'''FROSTY MORNING [1]'''. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AABB (Brody). This tune is mentioned as having been played in a 1931 account of a LaFollette, northeast Tenn. fiddle contest. In the 1960's it was collected by Alan Jabbour from Glen Lyn, Virginia, fiddler Henry Reed (born c. 1885, Peterston, Monroe County, West Virginia). See his notes on the tune [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?afcreed: | '''FROSTY MORNING [1]'''. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AABB (Brody). This tune is mentioned as having been played in a 1931 account of a LaFollette, northeast Tenn. fiddle contest. In the 1960's it was collected by Alan Jabbour from Glen Lyn, Virginia, fiddler Henry Reed (born c. 1885, Peterston, Monroe County, West Virginia). See his notes on the tune [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?afcreed:2:./temp/~ammem_XkRR::]. Jabbour popularized it with his influential late 1960's recording with the Hollow Rock String Band. | ||
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Tune properties and standard notation
FROSTY MORNING [1]. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): AABB (Brody). This tune is mentioned as having been played in a 1931 account of a LaFollette, northeast Tenn. fiddle contest. In the 1960's it was collected by Alan Jabbour from Glen Lyn, Virginia, fiddler Henry Reed (born c. 1885, Peterston, Monroe County, West Virginia). See his notes on the tune [1]. Jabbour popularized it with his influential late 1960's recording with the Hollow Rock String Band.
Source for notated version: Joel Shimberg (Arlington, Va.) [Krassen].
Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 114. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 49. Krassen (Appalachian Fiddle), 1973; pp. 38-39. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 56.
Recorded sources: Cassette C-7625, Wilson Douglas - "Back Porch Symphony." Reed Island Rounders - "Wolves in the Wood" (1997). Rounder 0010, "Fuzzy Mountain String Band" (1972. Learned from Henry Reed via Alan Jabbour). CD, Alan Jabbour, James Reed, Bertram Levy - "A Henry Reed Reunion" (2002). Recording of Henry Reed: American Memory [2]]