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|f_annotation='''BURKE COUNTY'''. American, Reel (cut time). A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). AA'B. "Burke County" was in the repertoire of western North Carolina's Fiddlin' Bill Hensley (1873-1960, Madison County). Originally from Happy Valley, east Tennessee (near Johnson City), he moved with his family when a boy to North Carolina, telling oneinterviewer that he “walked 85 miles across the mountains to their new home with a rooster under one arm, and leading his little dog on a string behind him.” Hensley came from a family of fiddlers, including his father, grandfather and two uncles, and was also influenced byfiddle makers George and Hugh Bell, Blind Wiley Laws, and fiddling Governor Bob Taylor of Tennessee. His fiddle, which he referred to as Old Calico, was obtained from Governor Taylor. | |||
|f_annotation='''BURKE COUNTY'''. American, Reel (cut time). A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). | |f_see_also_listing=Hear Bill Hensley's 1940 field recording at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/burke-county] | ||
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|f_see_also_listing=Hear Bill Hensley's 1940 field recording at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/burke-county] | |||
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Revision as of 23:13, 9 November 2021
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BURKE COUNTY. American, Reel (cut time). A Major. AEae tuning (fiddle). AA'B. "Burke County" was in the repertoire of western North Carolina's Fiddlin' Bill Hensley (1873-1960, Madison County). Originally from Happy Valley, east Tennessee (near Johnson City), he moved with his family when a boy to North Carolina, telling oneinterviewer that he “walked 85 miles across the mountains to their new home with a rooster under one arm, and leading his little dog on a string behind him.” Hensley came from a family of fiddlers, including his father, grandfather and two uncles, and was also influenced byfiddle makers George and Hugh Bell, Blind Wiley Laws, and fiddling Governor Bob Taylor of Tennessee. His fiddle, which he referred to as Old Calico, was obtained from Governor Taylor.
