Annotation:New Orleans (Reel)

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NEW ORLEANS. AKA and see "Shady Grove." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, West Virginia. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A moderately-paced version of "Shady Grove" from Braxton County, West Virginia, fiddler Melvin Wine.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 107.

Recorded sources: Augusta Heritage AHR 013, Melvin Wine - "Old Time Fiddling of Braxton County, vol. 2" (1992).

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear/see the tune played by fiddler Adrienne Howard [2] [3]