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Dick Burnett & Leonard Rutherford

SLEEPING LULU. AKA and see "L and N Rag." American, Country Rag (cut time). USA; Kentucky, Georgia. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Phillips): AA'BB (Brody). The time was recorded in Atlanta, Georgia, at the end of October, 1931, but the core Skillet Lickers line-up: Clayton McMichen and Lowe Stokes (fiddle), Riley Puckett (gtr.), and Gid Tanner (banjo). See also "Lulu Loves them Young." They were predated in releasing a version of the tune by the Cumberland Plateau duo of Dick Burnet and Leonard Rutherford who recorded it in 1930. Dick Burnet learned the tune from a man named Elmer Stany (d. 1932).

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Bob Potts and Walt Koken with the Highwoods String Band (Ithica, N.Y.) {Phillips additionally credits Seattle fiddler Ruthie Dornfeld} [Brody, Phillips].

Printed sources : - Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; p. 257. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 131.

Recorded sources: -Columbia 15567 D (78 RPM), Dick Burnett (Monticello, Ky.), (1930. Burnett learned the tune from one Elmer Stany [d. 1932]). Columbia 15777-D (78 RPM), The Skillet Lickers (1931. Backed with “McMichen’s Breakdown”). Davis Unlimited DU 33014, W.L. Gregory & Clyde Davenport – “Monticello: Tough Mountain Music” (1975). Document DOCD 8025, “Burnett & Rutherford 1926-1930” (1998). Rounder 0074, Highwoods String Band "No. 3 Special" (1976. Learned from Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers). Rounder 1005, Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers "Hear These New Southern Fiddle and Guitar Records."

See also listing at:
Hear the Skillet Licker’s 1931 recording at Slippery Hill [ ] and youtube.com [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVDJAmGQU1Q]
Hear Burnett & Rutherford’s recording at youtube.com [1]

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 '''SLEEPING LULU.''' AKA and see "[[L and N Rag]]." American, Country Rag (cut time). USA; Kentucky, Georgia. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Phillips): AA'BB (Brody). The time was recorded in Atlanta, Georgia, at the end of October, 1931, but the core Skillet Lickers line-up: Clayton McMichen and Lowe Stokes (fiddle), Riley Puckett (gtr.), and Gid Tanner (banjo). See also "Lulu Loves them Young." They were predated in releasing a version of the tune by the Cumberland Plateau duo of Dick Burnet and Leonard Rutherford who recorded it in 1930.  Dick Burnet learned the tune from a man named Elmer Stany (d. 1932).
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