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MISS JESSIE SMITH. Scottish, Strathspey. The tune appears in Joseph Lowe’s mid-19th century collection. The tune is a Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, standard among fiddlers, and is commonly heard in Scottish sessions as well. Lowe was a musician and dancing master, the son of fiddler-composer John Lowe ("Rachel Rae").
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Recorded sources: CAT-WMR004, Wendy MacIssac - “The ‘Reel’ Thing” (1994).
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